No WUs for a few days??

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Read the News.

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Now that I read the news I think I am shocked ... 45 GB? They have got to be kidding, yes? I have a 1 TB SATA 7200 RPM HD at home that I bought for less than $100. Next they are going to announce that they are upgrading their system to Windows 95. Hec, I'll buy them a 1 TB HD!

What they are saying is that the database is 45gb in size and they are trying to keep it all in ram! It is too big, they don't have that much ram, and they are trying to remove some unneeded parts by purging it now. Most projects do the same thing, keep the database in ram, to keep us users happy when we try to access our different stats etc. The problem with this database is it seems to have stopped purging itself and instead just kept growing beyond the available memory and then locked up.

Server memory is very expensive and eventually you get to the point where you have to start replacing what you have because all the slots are full. That means you start discarding the 8 gig pieces and start buying the 16 gig pieces, for example. Unfortunately Server ram has to be done is pairs or even 4 at a time, so it becomes even more expensive. 45 gig of ram is not all that much for a big time server, but it is VERY expensive!! There are servers out there with terabytes of ram in them! Now those are the kind the Countries of the World use or even the Universities mainframes that you and I are trying to relieve the pressure on by crunching on our PCs instead of theirs. For instance the new supercomputing IBM machine, Sequoia, has these specs:
"Fun specs: 1.6 million processing cores, 1.6 petabytes of memory, 96 racks, 98,304 computing nodes, footprint only 3,400 square feet. And energy-wise, it’s a dreamboat. It will draw six megawatts of power a year, equivalent to that consumed by just 500 homes." Got it from here http://government.zdnet.com/?p=4314 A petabyte is what is after a terrabyte!