what year was that?


On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Lyle Tuttle <l.tuttle@cox.net> wrote:

>  In the 'old' days, I worked for the Atomic Energy Commission designing,
> building and maintaining computer controlled experiments using radiation
> from and located on the face of the reactor.....our SDS "mainframe" <G> ran
> ALL experiments (including some x-ray diffraction projects in remote
> locations) in real-time......that computer had 16K core memory.......and
> people came from all over the world to see what we were doing....now a
> watch has more memory.....
>
> Time flies, and the only constant is change......
>
> At 10:26 PM 6/12/2013, Derek Trotter wrote:
>
> Anyone remember the old days when we thought 64k RAM and a 5MB hard drive
> was a fast machine?
>
> On 06/12/2013 06:12 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
>
> Yes - I am not saying my entire farm has that much ram. You can get away
> with much, much less, but I have servers that go that high.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 5:49 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> Did I read that right you have 768GB of RAM?
>
>
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> Keith Smith
>
> --- On Wed, 6/12/13, Bryan O'Neal <Bryan.ONeal@TheONealAndAssociates.com><Bryan.ONeal@TheONealAndAssociates.com>wrote:
>
> From: Bryan O'Neal <Bryan.ONeal@TheONealAndAssociates.com><Bryan.ONeal@TheONealAndAssociates.com>
>
> Subject: Re: AMD vs Intel memory managemement
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>
> Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 5:45 PM
>
>
> This is kinda new to me - Just so I am clear - unganged systems would
> perform better if I have say - a caching system with limited threads each
> pined to a specific core (we do this for processor cache anyway) while
> ganged systems would perform better it I was spinning up a new thread for
> each request and had a large amount (say 768GB) of ram running something
> like PostgreSQL where threads are being fired up and down many thousands of
> times a second but the data they seek is mostly in main memory.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Stephen < cryptworks@gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=cryptworks@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
>  On-board bios usually will not allocate that much however. And by
> usually will not I mean I have never sen it do so, even in the days of
> ghetto ram thieving by graphics chip-sets.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs@shubes.net<http://mc/compose?to=ejs@shubes.net>>
> wrote:
>  On 06/03/2013 01:46 PM, Nathan England wrote:
>  But why does CentOS not register all of my memory? Why less than 3/4 of
> it?
>
>
> Perhaps the bios has allocated a chunk of it to onboard video?
>
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