Feeling all pimped out with your Alienware with 4GB RAM? Or your Mac Pro with 16GB RAM? Well, move aside, for they are nothing compared to this 128GB RAM monster built by Xenon Systems for the Monash Cluster Computing group.
The setup runs on 8 x 2.8GHz dual-core AMD Opterons, which are tucked away somewhere underneath all the seemingly endless rows of RAMs. And the system is supposedly extremely loud when running. Not something you’ll want in your bedroom.
Then again, who needs sleep when you have something like this?
June 11th, 2007 at 2:09 am
Insane
June 11th, 2007 at 10:53 am
meh. 20 years ago the pic would’ve been the same except instead of 128 GB, it’d be 128 MB. Wake me up when it gets to be 128 TB.
June 11th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
While this would probably take the electricity of one small Northern Californian city to power, I want it. Bad.
June 12th, 2007 at 3:10 am
Look, there’s my hard drive!
June 12th, 2007 at 3:28 am
It would be cooler if it was a ROM drive with the OS installed on it, so that the computer boots in seconds.
What is 128 GB of RAM good for?? The main speed limitation in most systems is the bus speed anyway.
June 12th, 2007 at 3:43 am
I wonder what they use it for, how much it costs, how much space it takes.
Not that I need one, or could afford it anyway.
June 12th, 2007 at 5:51 am
yeah wasnt really suprised by this,
there is a 1gb gfx card on sale
quadcore processor on sale
some computers can take 2 gfx cards
so you could have 2gb gfx already!
and in the future you can possibly look forward to “1 petabyte RAM” or more..
it will come, may take time, but it will come.
June 12th, 2007 at 9:01 am
Earlier this year I dropped in to visit my dad at work (he works for Cisco), and he showed me the Sun machines he’s working with. Pretty much like this, only I don’t know exactly how much RAM is in the thing. They can also link multiple units together; he’s working with six units at the moment. His project’s using them to stress-test telecommunications servers, simulating constant heavy traffic. They’ll run you anywhere from 250k – 500k a pop. And like the article said, they sound like an airplane turbine spinning up…
June 12th, 2007 at 9:14 am
can you imagine if this thing runs slow? what do u do then?
June 12th, 2007 at 9:26 am
wow, that’s really nice picture. I don’t believe it could really happen. Thanks for sharing this information..
June 12th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Pah! 128GB? How about 256GB!
http://www.iap.ac.cn/english/iap/supporting_ISC.htm
June 12th, 2007 at 10:58 am
Forget that, it’s only a few thousant to get a computer with 2 quad core amd prossesors (soon upto 3ghz per core) 16 gig’s of ram, and 20TB H.D. space, as well as 4 directx 10 video cards.
June 12th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Wow that is huge mass !! hehe
June 12th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
give it to me baby i want it bad
June 12th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Well you shouldnt be looking to use “128gb” of ram
you should be looking for what its used for
and how effeinclty you can use it.
with better coding for proggys you would only need 128mb of ram
although on all my desktops i canrt speaks since i have 8gb each
June 13th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
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You should checkout the http://www.top500.org/
June 13th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
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you forget that the more ram you have the more your computer can remember at once without using virtual memory
June 13th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
What if one of the RAM fails?
June 23rd, 2007 at 12:44 am
Well if you have that much memory, you will end up in mental care
June 23rd, 2007 at 12:46 am
Then change it!!!
June 25th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
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WoW!
July 9th, 2007 at 11:20 am
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Great Idea…imagine Vista loading in 2-3 seconds!! I will run these games simualtaneously on it: Fear, FAR Cry, Crysis, Doom 3 and Quake 4.
July 25th, 2007 at 5:24 am
[Comment ID #88931 Will Be Quoted Here] goodo ne, what if it runs slow? or if there’s an error
July 26th, 2007 at 11:49 am
its so cool i love it
August 1st, 2007 at 9:20 am
I think this is what u need to run Vista properly.. 128Gb ram roflmao
December 4th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
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What he’s saying is that in order for the computer to even be able to use that much RAM, it has to support the use of that amount in the first place.
Though, I’m sure they thought of that when building the system.
December 28th, 2007 at 4:34 am
Wow… All that Ram… And I bet it still wouldn’t run WoW fast. XD
January 9th, 2008 at 12:26 am
…128 Gb…. is not too much, actually I´m working in a computer with 5 TB of Ram (and 2176 cores)
http://www.csc.fi/english/research/Computing_services/computing/servers/murska
January 28th, 2008 at 11:54 am
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April 5th, 2008 at 9:58 am
wow!!! nice ram