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Re:64 Terabyte RAM computer from SGI by simcop2387 on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @11:15PM (#7302846)
I love the idea of running entire VMs from ram.
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Re:64 Terabyte RAM computer from SGI by stonith on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @05:08AM (#7303988)
We started doing this when I was working at Cisco for a CI system - rack servers with 768GB of ram and tmpfs as instance storage for Openstack servers. It worked pretty well.
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Re:64 Terabyte RAM computer from SGI by thepicard on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @02:10AM (#7303471)
If you have 16GB, which is normal for high-end laptops these days, then you already can.
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Re:64 Terabyte RAM computer from SGI by prab97 on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @12:05AM (#7303015)
+1
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