Adam S. Moskowitz wrote: > Rayson Ho <raysonlogin at yahoo.com> wrote: > >>SGI/MIPS is so slow... just get an AMD64 > > > It may be slow, but it's the only machine we have that > supports 256GB of RAM. > > Yes, gigabytes; and yes, RAM. :-) > > The AMD64 may support that much but I don't know of > anyone building motherboards that big. :) Would 128GB work today? The 4GB dimms are 4k$/unit last I checked. The 8GB are coming online soon from what I hear. With the 8GB units we could hit 256 GB RAM (single system image, single memory space), AMD64... :) -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 734 786 8452 cell : +1 734 612 4615