What kind of people need 64gig of ram?

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Been speaking about this with a few people for a while. What kind of system/ what type of people need 64gb of ram in there pcs?
 
Servers, mainframes?

Or a very busy / talented person? even then you wouldn't need all that :p
 
Locke i seen a server on a website what had 64gig ram with maximum of 512gb..why would servers need so much ? D:

very busy man wouldnt cope of having atleast 40,000 programs..then again if he could he would be talented D:
 
Multiple Virtual Machines.
Home users, not much point at all.

But then, when you have quad - quad core boards thats 16 cores with only 4gb per core . . . .
 
I'm a "home user" professional architectural artist (3D CAD/CGI stuff) and frequently would love 12GB or more. 6GB does me fine, 8GB sometimes used. i've seen people push over 12GB too. so 64GB is huge but by no means unnecessary in many cases.
 
Game developers can use machines with 32+gig of RAM one place I know had a 16 core 32gig box that map compiles, etc. were chucked onto would often have 5+ of these going at a time each potentially using upto 3gig of RAM.
 
Obviously there is ALWAYS a use for it, 64GB is petty amount of RAM compared to some super servers that people like IBM and Google have, some of the 'super' servers hold PETA bytes of RAM let alone Giga Bytes. Some examples:

"The record-breaking Altix 4700 system is now installed in Munich, Germany, at the Leibniz Computing Centre Munich (LRZ). LRZ houses Germany's National Supercomputer System, and the Altix 4700 installation marked the completion of LRZ's Phase I deployment, which incorporates 4,096 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors, 17TB of global shared memory, and a 330TB SGI InfiniteStorage solution.

The LRZ system, known as HLRB II, operates all 4,096 processors as a unified platform that enables applications to directly address all 17TB of memory."

IBM's Blue Gene:

"The archetypal Blue Gene/Q system called Sequoia will be installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2011 as a part of the Advanced Simulation and Computing Program running nuclear simulations and advanced scientific research. It will consist of 98,304 compute nodes comprising 1.6 million processor cores and 1.6 PB memory in 96 racks covering an area of about 3000 square feet, drawing 6 megawatts of power."


As for who needs 64GB... no 'Home Office' user that I can think of needs that amount really, but a server could easily consume that.
 
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I don't think 64GB as a home user would be sensible, however I know someone with 24GB in a home system. He does lots of programming/number crunching though and often uses a fair block of that on just a couple of programs.

There is someone on another forum I am on who runs a server with 128GB of RAM. That isn't a lot compared to others, but still a a pretty hefty amount of memory :p

so yea it has its uses, but not to your average home user (yet)
 
VortX said:
Obviously there is ALWAYS a use for it, 64GB is petty amount of RAM compared to some super servers that people like IBM and Google have, some of the 'super' servers hold PETA bytes of RAM let alone Giga Bytes. Some examples:

"The record-breaking Altix 4700 system is now installed in Munich, Germany, at the Leibniz Computing Centre Munich (LRZ). LRZ houses Germany's National Supercomputer System, and the Altix 4700 installation marked the completion of LRZ's Phase I deployment, which incorporates 4,096 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors, 17TB of global shared memory, and a 330TB SGI InfiniteStorage solution.

The LRZ system, known as HLRB II, operates all 4,096 processors as a unified platform that enables applications to directly address all 17TB of memory."

IBM's Blue Gene:

"The archetypal Blue Gene/Q system called Sequoia will be installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2011 as a part of the Advanced Simulation and Computing Program running nuclear simulations and advanced scientific research. It will consist of 98,304 compute nodes comprising 1.6 million processor cores and 1.6 PB memory in 96 racks covering an area of about 3000 square feet, drawing 6 megawatts of power."


As for who needs 64GB... no 'Home Office' user that I can think of needs that amount really, but a server could easily consume that.
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Interesting read!

I can't remember ever seeing my 4GB reach the max usage in the Task Manager. Although Photoshop etc use quite a lot.
 
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