You can fit 48 TB on a HPE MC990 X though I'm pretty sure that's got one of those NUMA architectures that SGI had with the UV 3000 or whatever.
I remember jokingly telling my team to spend the millions of dollars we did expanding our clusters with one of these and just processing in RAM. I honestly don't think I did the analysis to make sure it would be actually better.
It was 'jokingly' because we couldn't afford three of these machines anyway. The clusters had the property that we could lose some large fraction of nodes and still operate, we could expand slightly sub-linearly, etc. which are all lovely properties.
It would have been neat, though. Ahhhh imagine the luxury of just loading things into memory and crunching the whole thing in minutes instead of hours. Gives me shivers.
I remember jokingly telling my team to spend the millions of dollars we did expanding our clusters with one of these and just processing in RAM. I honestly don't think I did the analysis to make sure it would be actually better.
It was 'jokingly' because we couldn't afford three of these machines anyway. The clusters had the property that we could lose some large fraction of nodes and still operate, we could expand slightly sub-linearly, etc. which are all lovely properties.
It would have been neat, though. Ahhhh imagine the luxury of just loading things into memory and crunching the whole thing in minutes instead of hours. Gives me shivers.