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Is there a real-world workload that would need 1.5TB of RAM?

• sesuximo 7y ago
  I'm sure redis would find a way to use it
  • dvtrn 7y ago
    I want to speak to the person who is running redis directly on top of macOS. Stand up, reveal yourself. We promise no harm will come to you or your home directory.
    • the-rc 7y ago
      Probably somebody at Yale!
      • dvtrn 7y ago
        You misspelled “Georgia Tech”, they’re just crazy enough to do it. :P
        • the-rc 7y ago
          I was only half joking. Yale used to have a cluster with Xserve machines.
    • nsxwolf 7y ago
      Jokes on you, we have a Users directory.
• ksec 7y ago
  Well there is a Rack Based Mac Pro, I think may be there are some niche use case in server scenario. ( Running Multiple VMs )
• Koshkin 7y ago
  RAM is used as a disk cache. RAM-drive can also be useful.
• moralestapia 7y ago
  Of course! That's pretty much the point of supercomputing.
  • dharmab 7y ago
    No supercomputer in the TOP500 runs macOS (or any OS other than Linux, since a couple of years ago).
• dharmab 7y ago
  MacOS build/test servers, potentially- but I'm not sure that would be a useful CPU to memory ratio. It may just be that that happens to be a valid combination of memory slots and memory density available on the market.