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From: Darren New
Subject: And just in case you had a big POV job to trace...
Date: 13 Jul 2010 11:36:40
Message: <4c3c8808$1@news.povray.org>
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http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/07/the-new-amazon-ec2-instance-type-the-cluster-compute-instance.html
Rent a quad-core 2HT 2.93GHz 23G RAM 1.5TB disk compute engine for $1.60/hour.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
C# - a language whose greatest drawback
is that its best implementation comes
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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: And just in case you had a big POV job to trace...
Date: 13 Jul 2010 11:57:22
Message: <4c3c8ce2$1@news.povray.org>
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Darren New wrote:
> Rent a quad-core 2HT 2.93GHz 23G RAM 1.5TB disk compute engine for
> $1.60/hour.
That's *dual* quad-core (i.e., total of 8 cores), apparently.
What I can't figure out is how it's possible to put 23GB of RAM into a
single PC. AFAIK, nobody makes motherboard that can do that...
(The other problem, of course, is that although it has 1.5TB of storage,
since you access the Internet at 8 mbit/sec, it would take a loooong
time to fill or empty that space. So it's only useful for temporary data
generated by the process itself.)
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From: Mike Raiford
Subject: Re: And just in case you had a big POV job to trace...
Date: 13 Jul 2010 12:53:20
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On 7/13/2010 10:57 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>
>> Rent a quad-core 2HT 2.93GHz 23G RAM 1.5TB disk compute engine for
>> $1.60/hour.
>
> That's *dual* quad-core (i.e., total of 8 cores), apparently.
>
> What I can't figure out is how it's possible to put 23GB of RAM into a
> single PC. AFAIK, nobody makes motherboard that can do that...
Its a cluster .... there are 2 separate systems.
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~Mike
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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: And just in case you had a big POV job to trace...
Date: 13 Jul 2010 14:18:06
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On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:57:21 +0100, Invisible wrote:
> What I can't figure out is how it's possible to put 23GB of RAM into a
> single PC. AFAIK, nobody makes motherboard that can do that...
It's probably virtualized, which lets you configure any odd amount of
memory you want, pretty much.
Jim
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From: Le Forgeron
Subject: Re: And just in case you had a big POV job to trace...
Date: 13 Jul 2010 14:21:31
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Le 13/07/2010 17:57, Invisible nous fit lire :
> Darren New wrote:
>
>> Rent a quad-core 2HT 2.93GHz 23G RAM 1.5TB disk compute engine for
>> $1.60/hour.
>
> That's *dual* quad-core (i.e., total of 8 cores), apparently.
>
> What I can't figure out is how it's possible to put 23GB of RAM into a
> single PC. AFAIK, nobody makes motherboard that can do that...
Correct, 24GB of ram is more usual.
It might infact be a VM of 23GB... 1GB for the barebone.
Or a commercial cover-up, to avoid the issue of Gi/G, or whatever
24740416k is reported in system monitor of gnome as only 23.6GB, go figure.
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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: And just in case you had a big POV job to trace...
Date: 13 Jul 2010 14:23:57
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>> What I can't figure out is how it's possible to put 23GB of RAM into a
>> single PC. AFAIK, nobody makes motherboard that can do that...
>
> It's probably virtualized, which lets you configure any odd amount of
> memory you want, pretty much.
It *is* virtualised, but if the RAM doesn't physically reside on the
same system, you're going to see a jaw-droppingly *vast* performance
drop. (Which would kind of negate the whole point of those multiple CPU
cores...)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: And just in case you had a big POV job to trace...
Date: 13 Jul 2010 15:09:54
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On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:23:53 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> What I can't figure out is how it's possible to put 23GB of RAM into a
>>> single PC. AFAIK, nobody makes motherboard that can do that...
>>
>> It's probably virtualized, which lets you configure any odd amount of
>> memory you want, pretty much.
>
> It *is* virtualised, but if the RAM doesn't physically reside on the
> same system, you're going to see a jaw-droppingly *vast* performance
> drop. (Which would kind of negate the whole point of those multiple CPU
> cores...)
Sure, but the system may well have 128 GB of memory installed in it (for
example), and only 23 GB allocated to that specific machine - that's my
point.
Jim
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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: And just in case you had a big POV job to trace...
Date: 13 Jul 2010 15:26:45
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Invisible wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>
>> Rent a quad-core 2HT 2.93GHz 23G RAM 1.5TB disk compute engine for
>> $1.60/hour.
>
> That's *dual* quad-core (i.e., total of 8 cores), apparently.
I think it has a quad-core 2 hyperthreads per core. At least, according to
the intel specs, if I read them right.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
C# - a language whose greatest drawback
is that its best implementation comes
from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.
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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: And just in case you had a big POV job to trace...
Date: 13 Jul 2010 15:27:37
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Le_Forgeron wrote:
> It might infact be a VM of 23GB... 1GB for the barebone.
It's an amazon compute server you're renting by the hour. Yes, it's in a VM. :-)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
C# - a language whose greatest drawback
is that its best implementation comes
from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.
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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: And just in case you had a big POV job to trace...
Date: 14 Jul 2010 04:11:05
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>>>> What I can't figure out is how it's possible to put 23GB of RAM into a
>>>> single PC. AFAIK, nobody makes motherboard that can do that...
>>> It's probably virtualized, which lets you configure any odd amount of
>>> memory you want, pretty much.
>> It *is* virtualised, but if the RAM doesn't physically reside on the
>> same system, you're going to see a jaw-droppingly *vast* performance
>> drop. (Which would kind of negate the whole point of those multiple CPU
>> cores...)
>
> Sure, but the system may well have 128 GB of memory installed in it (for
> example), and only 23 GB allocated to that specific machine - that's my
> point.
And my point is "where the **** do you get a system that can handle more
than 16GB of RAM from?!"
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