[Bioclusters] SGE vs. LSF

[Joe Landman]

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...

:)

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