Tell HN: RAM Requirements are going through the roof
There have been a few talks about how Moore's law is coming to an end, about how you can now build servers with close to a TB of RAM, how you can now scale clusters of servers and achieve great metrics when it comes to raw data storage or memcaching, how incredible feats in both parallelization and miniaturization will reverse the downhill trend for high-end computing. Then there's the desktop. My desktop PC, for instance. It's a great 6 months old working computer, with 8 cores and 16GB of RAM. "This ought to be enough for all my needs", I thought. The Bill Gates in me was right so far, but unfortunately this won't be enough for long. Yesterday I took a look at my memory usage, out of curiosity: 11.4GB. Woah. I had a look at the breakdown. - Chrome : ~3GB - Firefox : ~1.5GB - Java (eclipse) : ~1.2GB - Rest in tons of various work-related apps. I'm of course responsible for letting this
Why it failed
There have been a few talks about how Moore's law is coming to an end, about how you can now build servers with close to a TB of RAM, how you can now scale clusters of servers and achieve great metrics when it comes to raw data storage or memcaching, how incredible feats in both
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- babebridou
- Ended
- 2012
- Source
- hackernews