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> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of William Yu
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 11:36 AM
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Splitting queries across servers
>
>
> Without memory, the prices are roughly:
>
> 4x846 = $5500
> 4x848 = $6500
> 4x850 = $8000
>
> Memory costs would be:
>
> 16GB (1GB DIMMs) = $3000
> 32GB (2GB DIMMs) = $7500
> 64GB (4GB DIMMs) = $24000
> 128GB (8GB DIMMs) = $60000
>
> The prices on the 4GB & 8GB DIMMs are bleeding edge of course. I see a
> wide range of for them on Froogle. You will want your vendor of course
> to pick memory is proper for the MB and pay whatever premium they'll
> charge ontop of it. (Looking at the Tyan website, they only list 2GB
> DIMMs as supported for their Quad Opteron MBs but whether that's because
> those specs were done before >= 4GB DIMMs were available or an actual
> hardware limitation, I dunno.)
>
Thank you! That's very thorough. hm... we're talking 35K then. That could be
in my budget.
>
>
>
> Max wrote:
> >>
> >>With a Quad Opteron (4 memory slots per CPU), you could put 64GB of RAM
> >>onto a single machine using 4GB DIMMs in every slot.
> >
> >
> > We were talking about a similar solution today, but not quite as good as
> > this. You really got me thinking now. 64Gb.. hm that would solve many
> > issues. what do you think the cost would be for such a beast ?
> Any idea ?
> >
> > Max
> >
> >
> >
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