What would you do if you had 6TB of RAM to play with?

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Hi,Work is decommissioning a prod server with 120 cores and 6TB of RAM.It's not my job but it got me to a thinkin... I actually don't know what I'd do with that much RAM if I did manage to get them to give it to me to play with.What are your thoughts?

fuzzfactor · Accepted Answer

>What would you do if you had 6TB of RAM to play with?I'd be waiting forever for Memdiag to finish . . .

sargstuff · Answer

Use emacs as backstore/virtual gpu for displaying/generating doom ai 3d graphics [1] (vs. 2d mechanical tv[2])
Test out various ai approaches via battle of different ai control models of doom player(s).
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[1] : http://newatlas.com/technology/ai-powered-gaming-engine-game...
[2] : http://www.retrothing.com/2008/06/build-your-own.html

floxy · Answer

General Relativity simulations. Of course I'd need to learn about general relativity first. But it would motivate me to buy a book.https://www.amazon.com/Numerical-Relativity-Starting-Thomas-...

brudgers · Answer

List it on eBay. I could spend mental bandwidth imagining how to use it. But if I have the cash from selling 6TB of RAM, I can buy 6TB of RAM if and when I come up with something that requires it. I probably won't. So I'd spend the money on my actual hobbies.

sargstuff · Answer

Ultimate, maximum in-memory only doom wad and still have a playable game. perhaps, use AI map generator to speed movement through game up.note: make things interesting add a steven king langoliers monster(s) in background to activate/simulate 'random/limited memory area swaps/wipes'.

eternityforest · Answer

Seems perfect for some kind of public key/value server node.I can think of some interesting IoT type applications that could run on a DHT, and a DHT could probably have way better performance if it used one of a few super-nodes when possible, and only used the real DHT as a fallback.

basementcat · Answer

You could compile a project that made use of Protobufs with Bazel.

anacrolix · Answer

You could actually sync Ethereum without destroying a hard drive.

rolph · Answer

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What would you do if you had 6TB of RAM to play with?

Hi,
Work is decommissioning a prod server with 120 cores and 6TB of RAM.
It's not my job but it got me to a thinkin... I actually don't know what I'd do with that much RAM if I did manage to get them to give it to me to play with.
What are your thoughts?

>What would you do if you had 6TB of RAM to play with?
I'd be waiting forever for Memdiag to finish . . .

General Relativity simulations. Of course I'd need to learn about general relativity first. But it would motivate me to buy a book.
https://www.amazon.com/Numerical-Relativity-Starting-Thomas-...

List it on eBay. I could spend mental bandwidth imagining how to use it. But if I have the cash from selling 6TB of RAM, I can buy 6TB of RAM if and when I come up with something that requires it. I probably won't. So I'd spend the money on my actual hobbies.

Ultimate, maximum in-memory only doom wad and still have a playable game. perhaps, use AI map generator to speed movement through game up.
note: make things interesting add a steven king langoliers monster(s) in background to activate/simulate 'random/limited memory area swaps/wipes'.

Seems perfect for some kind of public key/value server node.
I can think of some interesting IoT type applications that could run on a DHT, and a DHT could probably have way better performance if it used one of a few super-nodes when possible, and only used the real DHT as a fallback.

You could compile a project that made use of Protobufs with Bazel.

You could actually sync Ethereum without destroying a hard drive.

rent out bittorrent lockers