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Hi all

It seems that HPE has announced a new computer, that currently has 160 TB of memory and uses Armv8 CPU's.

The report claims that HPE won't sell this - but will use the things learned from making it to put into other products.

One thing that struck me was that this computer will scale to support a single memory capability of 4,096 yottabyes....

What's a yottabyte?

From the wiki: 1 YB = 1000^8 bytes = 10^24 bytes = 1000000000000000000000000 bytes = 1000 zettabytes = 1trillion terabytes :shock:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/16 ... ne_system/

Now, THAT could be useful on BOINC ;-)

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How on earth am I supposed to get that into four DIMM slots?!
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Woodles wrote:How on earth am I supposed to get that into four DIMM slots?!
Hi Mark

A bolster hammer and some WD40 ?

But even if you did, you'd probably need a massive upgrade to your house electricity supply...as I can't even comprehend how many amps you'd be drawing to power it all up ;-)

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Hi Tim,

I suppose that might work :)

That's alright, I'm sure I can run it off solar cells :D

Mark
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