"yes, I'd Like 2.5 Terabytes Of Ram, Please"

Marik_Steele

<div class="IPBDescription">Gov't buys biggest ramdrive in existence</div> <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->[...]Hutsell tells us that "the customer has been happy so far". He expects there may be additional purchasing later this year.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
"Happy so far?" Yeah, I'd certainly think so! <a href='http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=displaynews&NewsID=1176' target='_blank'>Let the conspiracy theories fly!</a> I sure wouldn't mind having one of those on hand. That and a backbone internet connection complete with Big Red Button ™ labeled "Download The Internet NOW"

Wheeee

Holy... <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I've been completely owned. Gimme a couple minutes to recuperate and then I'll actually be able to say something more useful than holy **** **** **** **** batman!

Umbraed_Monkey

Hujazz numbers like that always makes me feel fuzzy all over. Imagine the US Gov. decides to make the ultimate gaming machine?

Wheeee

<!--QuoteBegin-Umbraed Monkey+Mar 9 2004, 10:42 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Umbraed Monkey @ Mar 9 2004, 10:42 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Hujazz numbers like that always makes me feel fuzzy all over. Imagine the US Gov. decides to make the ultimate gaming machine? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
"it's for research purposes...no, really!"

Cold_NiTe

<!--QuoteBegin-Umbraed Monkey+Mar 9 2004, 10:42 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Umbraed Monkey @ Mar 9 2004, 10:42 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Imagine the US Gov. decides to make the ultimate gaming machine? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Whooo yeah! Time to play SUPAR MUNCHARS or SOLITARE on that there monster!

AllUrHiveRblong2us

With 2.5 terabytes of RAM one could store every possible combination of symbols for any password, and run through them all at the touch of a button in only a few seconds. Pretty powerful stuff.

Cold_NiTe

As long as you can play SUPAR MUNCHARS on it, <i>it's aaaaaaallll good.</i> <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Marik_Steele

Y'know, I just realized: with that much RAM, if you had multiple processors on the motherboard (which I'm going to assume is true) you could easily use Microsoft Virtual Machine or VMWare or something to play a 64-person LAN game off of that one computer.

[edit]I didn't make myself clear. I'm not saying it would be just a great server. I'm saying you could have 64 people at 64 keyboards, mice, and monitors to play a lanparty. On one computer.

AllUrHiveRblong2us

With that much RAM you could basically do just about anything you want, until the power goes out.

Wheeee

i wonder how much power that whole system draws.

Liku

I want a picture.

Soylent_green

If SDRAM something like 25 kW <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->.

The japanese "earth simulator" uses 10 TB RAM for simulations, it doesn't use it as a big ugly harddrive which is even more impressive.

Burr

WOW...me wanty!!

Just imagine all the games of SPider Solitaire I could play with that much RAM....

Soylent_green

<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->WOW...me wanty!!

Just imagine all the games of SPider Solitaire I could play with that much RAM.... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Just imagine, you could heat a block of flats with that thing <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->.

Cold_NiTe

<!--QuoteBegin-Burr+Mar 9 2004, 11:36 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Burr @ Mar 9 2004, 11:36 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> WOW...me wanty!!

Just imagine all the games of SPider Solitaire I could play with that much RAM.... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes! My kinda game!

BlackMage

yes, hook that baby up to a SUN ultraSPARC V processor and you've got a hellagood gaming 'puter (actually 1000+ ultrasparc V's as you can have 1000 ultrasparc IV's working togehter, you would think you could have more of the V's ... yeah really, really bloody fast)

(fyi the ultrasparc V by sun will have 4-8 seperate cores, each capable of running 4 seperate threads going off of the theory that you can work on three threads while waiting for data queries on the first <a href='http://www.sun.com/processors/whitepapers/idc_whitepaper.pdf' target='_blank'>read this - pg 8</a>)

yeah, that thing will FLY

CForrester

<a href='http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/esc/eng/' target='_blank'>If you guys are interested in the Earth Simulator</a>...

Cold_NiTe

Multiple games of tetris <i>at the SAME TIME!</i> I'm in love.

Does it have minesweeper?

7Bistromath

Bet ten bucks it gets a virus as soon as they turn it on, and they have to replace the whole thing. I mean, that's so much memory, it'd probably suck more than three-quarters of the internet in without being told to, just because it'd be like a huge vacuum for data. Unless they stole god's firewall, (which they MIGHT be able to do) they'd have about two billion copies of M.Blast.whateveritscalled to deal with.

Talesin

I can't help but giggle at the thought of a Windows machine trying to access a terabyte of RAM... much less two. Hell, I remember my first 1.5GB machine. 'Not Enough Memory', soon as I powered it up. Turns out it had plenty of memory... too much, in fact, as it overflowed Windows' internal memory addressing table. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

DOOManiac

$20 it gets filled up with pr0n.

Infinitum

<!--QuoteBegin-DOOManiac+Mar 10 2004, 06:01 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Mar 10 2004, 06:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> $20 it gets filled up with pr0n. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
2.5Tb of porn

EDIT: And yes I am well aware of the bloody irony.

Daza4

<!--QuoteBegin-Infinitum+Mar 10 2004, 05:11 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Infinitum @ Mar 10 2004, 05:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-DOOManiac+Mar 10 2004, 06:01 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Mar 10 2004, 06:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> $20 it gets filled up with pr0n. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
2.5Tb of porn

EDIT: And yes I am well aware of the bloody irony. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Thats a **** load of pr0n!! You would NEVER get bored <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo-->

AllUrHiveRblong2us

I can just imagine some of the errors they're gonna get with that : "Windows is shutting down because your hardware kicks to much a**."

Bogglesteinsky

2.5 Tb.

and it's still not enough to run HL2

Codeman

<!--QuoteBegin-Daza400+Mar 10 2004, 07:18 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Daza400 @ Mar 10 2004, 07:18 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-Infinitum+Mar 10 2004, 05:11 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Infinitum @ Mar 10 2004, 05:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-DOOManiac+Mar 10 2004, 06:01 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Mar 10 2004, 06:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> $20 it gets filled up with pr0n. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
2.5Tb of porn

EDIT: And yes I am well aware of the bloody irony. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Thats a **** load of pr0n!! You would NEVER get bored <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
i can see the headlines now <i>"US Goverment faces OH&S lawsuit surrounding multiple cases of Repetitive Strain Injury"</i> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Supernorn

it would be even more amazing if 2.5TB of Ram was able to fit onto the head of a pin.

Jezpuh

Whoa <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif' /><!--endemo--> I'm totally going to buy that when I get 4.<u>8</u> million.

UZi

Bush needs more rams!

Necrosis

I wonder if they'll still be able to use the "lag" excuse now, lol.

Starchy

<!--QuoteBegin-Daza400+Mar 10 2004, 03:18 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Daza400 @ Mar 10 2004, 03:18 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Infinitum+Mar 10 2004, 05:11 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Infinitum @ Mar 10 2004, 05:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-DOOManiac+Mar 10 2004, 06:01 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Mar 10 2004, 06:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> $20 it gets filled up with pr0n. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
2.5Tb of porn

EDIT: And yes I am well aware of the bloody irony. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Thats a **** load of pr0n!! You would NEVER get bored <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
No, no you would not...unless... <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> High powered checkers anyone?