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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.