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lrobb on Jan 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: This is what 864GB of RAM looks like now

One of the bright spots of my career was building a distributed system that spanned 64 different nodes and regularly did over 100Mb/sec... Built on machines holding (at the time) a top-end config of 2Gb/ram per machine...

That's more RAM than our entire system had.

foobarbazetc on Jan 28, 2012 [–]

That's vastly more interesting and impressive than a blog post about how much RAM some company bought, though. :)

You've got $12K? Good for you. Here's a cookie.

You've scaled out a system onto 64 nodes? That's something worth discussing on HN.

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