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Re: [LUG] Mounting Partitions

 

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Simon Waters wrote:

> Rob Beard wrote:
>>
>> I wonder how long it'll be before we start to see desktop boards that
>> support that much.  By my calculations my latest motherboards can
>> support about 16GB assuming I stick in 4GB dimms, can't think what I'd
>> need that much memory for though.
>
> GNOME 3 ? Windows 8?
>
> As Gordon says people do that sized stuff. I know a bank that did it a
> long time ago to have an entire database in RAM for performance reasons.
> I'm guessing it needs to be making a lot of cash per decision to justify
> that kind of hardware then.

The software they were using had license fees of millions per year, so the 
actual server costs was pretty insignificant by comparison!

Intersting move in development though - they started out on Suns - Big 
suns at the time - ie. 4GB of RAM, dual 360MHz processors - jobs were 
taking a week, moved to HP J5600's (first 2 in the country we were told), 
job times down to a day, then the software vendors caught onto Linux - job 
times down to hours and sun never ever caught up - until they used 
Opterons, but by then too little too late we reckoned...

> If the desktop stays in fashion that long, you'll need somewhere to
> backup your brain before each Google implant upgrades, but no doubt some
> people will skip the back-up step.

Heh...

Gordon

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