Okay the Octane 3 workstation runs on Intel X86-64 upto 288 GB.
Altix Midrange server 450 supports  up to 854 GB
Altix 4700 BX2 up to 128 TB

The bulk of the system cost is probably the RAM chip , running at max cap,
these are DDR2 32 GB DIMM modules for the Itanium Servers.

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:28 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jun Hao,
>
> have you tried SGI? If you want absolutely HUGE amount of memory SGI Altix
> BX2 series can take more than 1TB of RAM in a single system. Infact I had
> personally benchmarked one a few years back with 0.5 TB. Further more it is
> not just about the amount but also the IO within the system to handle the
> transfer. Furthermore, SGI had just introduced a new workstation running on
> X86-64. The capacity for this machine is about 400+ GB i think. I was
> involved in the sale of a BX2 to Dept of Computational Science in NUS a few
> years back for a BX2 with couple of hundred GB ram... It was 192 i think,
> you might want to talk to the people to test it. Not sure if it is
> decommissioned.
>
> Regards,
> Kim Yong
>
>
> On Oct 15, 2009 9:26pm, Koo Jun Hao <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have experience in Big Iron machines (HUGE RAM running 64bit
> applications) running Linux? Particularly, I am wondering which companies
> are reputable and the price ranges these things cost.
> >
> >
> >
> > Background: I am asked to compile a wish list for budgeting (5 years
> masterplan kind of thing). Computational biology infrastructure requirements
> are becoming out-of-the-world, with huge datasets (>1 Terabytes each) and
> huge RAM requirements (> 48GB of RAM per job); I don't even know where to
> start looking for such machines.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for your help and advice!
> >
> > --
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Junhao
> >
> >
> >
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