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Re: [OT] Mother of all PCs




Tim Fletcher wrote:

> Sorry for the OT post, but looking for pointers.
>
> I need to build a machine with a lot of RAM (?16GB) and a lot of
grunt.
> Rather than going down the DSP route I thought I might try it on PC.
> Cost
> is not a problem (for once!)  anyone know anywhere to start?  I guess
a
> quad-processor machine with a stack of RAM might be a start.


Quad AMD Opteron. No question. Kicks butt.  Got a few of them at work.
Leaves the P4 Xeons standing.

If you're planning on running a monolithic 16Gb App, presumably you have
to have 64bit anyway...

Jim



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