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> With Terabyte (TB) RAM computers becoming the norm in the near future I don't know in which world you live but in mine people still mostly buy 4, sometimes 8

• pocket_cheese 5y ago
  I think he was talking about the clusters of machines used in big data. Both in processing (Spark) and storage (SAP HANA). These use cases can need TBs of ram.
  • rualca 5y ago
    > These use cases can need TBs of ram. These use cases can need TBs of RAM, but they don't get it in a single node but as a distributed system with tens of GB of RAM per node.
    • hughrr 5y ago
      Um, err we have a few tens of 1.5TB memory nodes lurking around. There are plenty of use cases for that out there.
    • majewsky 5y ago
      I work in a cloud environment where SAP HANA databases are provisioned. We offer VMs with multible TiB RAM for the larger HANAs.
• pkAbstract 5y ago
  I suppose what one considers the near future is relative.
• rualca 5y ago
  > I don't know in which world you live but in mine people still mostly buy 4, sometimes 8GB of ram laptops Not only that, but those terabytes are actually distributed systems running at most a few hundreds of megabytes of ram in each node.
  • alexanderdmitri 5y ago
    You can get a node with ~26.4TB memory on AWS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/memory-optimized-instances.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/memory-o...
• papito 5y ago
  With multiple accounts and VMs running Linux, which in turn run a JVM and a heavy IDE, my Mac Mini is at 64GB, and it needs all of it.
• neop1x 5y ago
  He is probably not talking about Macbooks