Re: [Ilugc] Mammoth RAMs

2008-05-27 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Ashok Gautham J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you have such huge RAMS, will the cache transfers be efficient since a > single miss will mean searching the entire RAM again... RAM is addressed and not searched. What do you mean by searching entire RAM for a

Re: [Ilugc] Mammoth RAMs

2008-05-27 Thread Arun Khan
On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Ashok Gautham J. wrote: > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On the topic of "mammoth rams", circa 2003 SGI came out with a > > system, which in full config had 384GB RAM. > > When you have such huge RAMS, will the cache transfers b

Re: [Ilugc] Mammoth RAMs

2008-05-27 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the topic of "mammoth rams", circa 2003 SGI came out with a system, > which in full config had 384GB RAM. > When you have such huge RAMS, will the cache transfers be efficient since a single miss will mean searching the

Re: [Ilugc] Mammoth RAMs

2008-05-25 Thread Arun Khan
On the topic of "mammoth rams", circa 2003 SGI came out with a system, which in full config had 384GB RAM. -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in

Re: [Ilugc] Mammoth RAMs

2008-05-25 Thread Sriram Karra
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Venkatraman S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > servers(32TB in RAM!). RAM gives only a linear speed-up O(n) , when > compared to efficient indexes which have O(log n). How do you compare the two - One (RAM) is a storage medium, whilst the other is a storage/access

Re: [Ilugc] Mammoth RAMs

2008-05-24 Thread Venkatraman S
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Raja Subramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about 256GB RAM for your server under $50k? > > http://www.metaram.com > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/25/weber_metaram/ > > Apparently, Violin memory has a

Re: [Ilugc] Mammoth RAMs

2008-05-24 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Venkatraman S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Was startled to see this : http://www.violin-memory.com/ . 120 gig RAM for > $50k How about 256GB RAM for your server under $50k? http://www.metaram.com http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/25/weber_metaram/ - Raja

[Ilugc] Mammoth RAMs

2008-05-24 Thread Venkatraman S
Was startled to see this : http://www.violin-memory.com/ . 120 gig RAM for $50k Have started believing : "Nothing is impossible... its just Expensive" :P -- Venkat Blog @ http://blizzardzblogs.blogspot.com ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi