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When in the 90's? I'd expect it would have taken the full 2x 42U racks to keep the whole dataset in memory at one time. Not to say it's required, but that doesn
by lukeschlather 13y ago
When in the 90's? I'd expect it would have taken the full 2x 42U racks to keep the whole dataset in memory at one time. Not to say it's required, but that doesn't sound totally crazy for the time period.
Also, having an order of magnitude more hardware than you ought to need is totally understandable when hardware capability is increasing by an order of magnitude faster than hardware replacement cycles. It's when you're off by several orders of magnitude that it starts to become suspect.
- harrytuttle 13y ago1998. It had 4Gb of RAM in each node which wasn't that scary. Most of it was UPS and disk. I had a Sun 1000E [1] for 3 years as a workstation from 1996. 8x 50MHz CPU, 2Gb of RAM, 16Gb disk array. It was made in'93 and was approx 12U for the unit and array. Things weren't that big in the 90's. 80's yes... [1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun4d http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun4d