I read somewhere that a modern scientific calculator is more powerful than the computers the astronauts in the Apollo program used in the craft they were riding in to the moon. On 06/13/2013 02:33 PM, Lyle Tuttle wrote: > At 08:16 AM 6/13/2013, Eric Cope wrote: >> what year was that? > > 1968 or so > > > >> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Lyle Tuttle > > 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" 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......Â Â Â >> >> 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 >>>> > >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Did I read that right you have 768GB of RAM? >>>> >>>> ------------------------ >>>> Keith Smith >>>> --- On Wed, 6/12/13, Bryan O'Neal >>>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> From: Bryan O'Neal >>>> >>>> >>>> Subject: Re: AMD vs Intel memory managemement >>>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" >>>> >>> > >>>> 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 >>>> >>> > >>>> 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 >>> > wrote: >>>> >>>> On 06/03/2013 01:46 PM, Nathan England >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> But why does CentOS not register >>>> all of my memory? 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