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Oh, I'm sure they'd be glad to sell to anyone. I've also heard that these OEM providers will, within reason, accommodate custom requests as part of the sales p
by lliamander 6y ago
Oh, I'm sure they'd be glad to sell to anyone. I've also heard that these OEM providers will, within reason, accommodate custom requests as part of the sales process (assuming you actually talk to a sales rep).
Just curious, can you use more than the 256GB limit on the regular Threadrippers? If so, what kinds of applications do you use that would consume that kind of memory?
- pdimitar 6y agoNo exact clue, to be honest. I am a fairly experienced programmer and I am looking to branch out into serious data research and simulations of many sorts (network topologies with 1,000,000+ nodes in a simulated internet, being one example). Basically I am looking to shoot many birds with one stone when I decide to buy my next Linux workstation, even if it ends up costing $30,000+. And for the kinds of research work I am interested in, a ton of RAM seems to be a boon. But it's more like some paranoid future proofing sentiment than anything else right now.
- Sebb767 6y agoWhy not go with old severs? I've seen old IBM servers (~2014) with that amount of RAM go for 2000-3000€; of course you'd lack energy efficiency and some compute power, but, unless you really need the power, an order of magnitude less might be a good argument.
- pdimitar 6y agoGood question. Even if I manage to swallow my ideals about wattage use then I still can't swallow the awful amount of noise these things produce. And I have no server room in my flat, can only have server in my bedroom or a small closet right next to it.