@nixCraft akshually 🤓 clock speed has hit a wall, and if you want 1TB of RAM, just get a decommissioned supercomputer node's rack! They are quite commodity-like nowadays.
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@nixCraft akshually 🤓 clock speed has hit a wall, and if you want 1TB of RAM, just get a decommissioned supercomputer node's rack! They are quite commodity-like nowadays. 2 comments
@argv_minus_one @nixCraft Recently I heard Sequent used to sell computers with gobs of 386's in the '90s. Amazing! |
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If you rate a processor's speed as max clock × core count, then AMD is selling 509GHz Threadripper CPUs. 🤷♂️
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