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[Paul Rubin]

Emile van Sebille <emile at fenx.com> writes:
>> probably somewhere close to 400-500Gb in memory....
> I went looking for a machine capable of this and got about halfway
> there with http://www.tech-news.com/publib/pl2818.html which allows up
> to 248Gb memory -- near as I can tell the price for the maxed out
> system is $2,546,200. Plus $3k/mo maintenance. 

1x http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101317
@ $1400

+ 8x http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239276
@ $658

+ 4x http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113036
@ $520

+ 2x 

= $8744 for a 64-core box with 512GB of ram.  Add another $1000 or so
for disks/SSD's depending on configuration.  Not bad.  There were times
I coulda used something like this.