Let's work it out. We have 1e16 numbers. If each is 8 bytes, that's 8e16 bytes. Dell do blade servers with 192 GB RAM. Call it 200 GB, which is 2e11 bytes. Yo

Let's work it out. We have 1e16 numbers. If each is 8 bytes, that's 8e16 bytes. Dell do blade servers with 192 GB RAM. Call it 200 GB, which is 2e11 bytes. You'd need 8e16/2e11 = 4e5 = 400,000 of them. At £35k each that's 14 billion quid. (Though with that big an order, you could no doubt build or get them cheaper). This is about gross world output for 4 hours. So it's doable, but not on the budget that most organisations could afford.