The Sandbox
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Computer memory is amazing We start out with this wonderful sandbox A place where we can mold objects out of thin air and the space is limitless in every direction It's just the only way in or out is up It may seem like the sandbox is small because we can see the edge of it but as programmers we can expand the memory space so we never reach the edge until that moment we run out of memory which isn't such a big problem any more but it has been so now we have all this code that cleans up memory So like a 3D game as we navigate through the map loading and unloading happens on top of that the scopes now plague us global level, local level, and room level (procedure level) So now we find ourselves locked in a bathroom with the only way out of the sandbox whish is up the sky is out a tiny window
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Computer memory is amazing We start out with this wonderful sandbox A place where we can mold objects out of thin air and the space is limitless in every direction It's just the only way in or out is up It may seem like the sandbox is small because we can see the edge of it but as programmers we can expand the memory space so we never reach the edge until that moment we run out of memory which isn't such a big problem any more but it has been so now we have all this code that cleans up memory So like a 3D game as we navigate through the map loading and unloading happens on top of that the scopes now plague us global level, local level, and room level (procedure level) So now we find ourselves locked in a bathroom with the only way out of the sandbox whish is up the sky is out a tiny window
On the topic of memory, one of my friends networked 64 desktop towers together so they could share resources. At the end, he had 32 TB RAM (Only 16 TB was used at that time), 512 Processor Cores at (IIRC) about 3 GHz each, and all sorts of other goodies. The thing ran Linux (although I think any system could run on that monster, even Vista!) AFAIK, he is still upgrading and extending it (not sure of current specs, haven't talked to him for about 2 years now, just can't get a hold of him ATM).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? --- The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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On the topic of memory, one of my friends networked 64 desktop towers together so they could share resources. At the end, he had 32 TB RAM (Only 16 TB was used at that time), 512 Processor Cores at (IIRC) about 3 GHz each, and all sorts of other goodies. The thing ran Linux (although I think any system could run on that monster, even Vista!) AFAIK, he is still upgrading and extending it (not sure of current specs, haven't talked to him for about 2 years now, just can't get a hold of him ATM).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? --- The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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On the topic of memory, one of my friends networked 64 desktop towers together so they could share resources. At the end, he had 32 TB RAM (Only 16 TB was used at that time), 512 Processor Cores at (IIRC) about 3 GHz each, and all sorts of other goodies. The thing ran Linux (although I think any system could run on that monster, even Vista!) AFAIK, he is still upgrading and extending it (not sure of current specs, haven't talked to him for about 2 years now, just can't get a hold of him ATM).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? --- The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
According to your magical fairy tail you had 64 machines each with 500 GB of ram and each with 8 cores, which you called desktops- a desktop is currently around 16GB of RAM no where close to 500. 64 bit limitation is 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 so if you had 64 TB which is probably only 64 GB it wouldn't matter you would get the whole thing not a magical 32 TB. The current limitation for Linux is 1 TB of RAM. It's 64 GB with a G is probably the truth. and FYI we are getting 200 GB's in one machine so the guy is going through a crap load of work that windows does not natively support.