cornellphds

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   by cornellphds 11y ago

   Its not about having two of everything at all times, but rather about having a capacity whenever you need it. At 244Gb you hit a sweet point where you can have access to large capability at a flexible price (Spot Market / On Demand &#x
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   by cornellphds 11y ago

   This is classic case of "Algorithm/Problem Selection" if your algorithm/problem is tailored to a task such as PageRank, surely a single threaded highly optimized code will beat a cluster designed for ETL tasks. In real o
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   by cornellphds 11y ago

   In my opinion the correct answer is 255Gb. (i.e. AWS r3X8 High Memory instances ). While one can purchase servers with larger memory most likely you will run into limitation on number of cores. Also note that there is at least some overhead