Transcend Debuts 128GB RAM Upgrades for 2013 Mac Pro

[MacsRgr8]

You know what. I like your comment. It's not attacking anyone, it's a positive comment on someone else's idea and you're being polite. I wish there were more commenters like you in the Internet. Thank you, sir.

Thank you for saying that! 🙂

 

[ed724]

Tsk tsk, you young whippersnappers had it easy. My first computer had 16k of RAM.

Nice!! My first was 4K.

 

[bloggerblog]

Nice!! My first was 4K.

Nice, mine had 1K. Sinclair ZX 81 😀

 

[doelcm82]

nonsense, that is euphymism of language.

I don't think "euphemism" means what you think it means, assuming that's the word you meant to write.

Why does it bother you that a writer chooses to use a natural adverb ("slowly", "more slowly") over an adjective ("slow", "slower") when an adverb is what is grammatically called for?

 

[869639]

Amazing that Mac which everyone compares to a trash can, can do more than any computer out there...even those fancy gaming computers with lights and "high end specs"

 

[Ralf The Dog]

I would love to have 10 or 20 Pro's maxed out to run Memcashed on. They would be great for a CoLo DB server. (I am sure, this is one of the few times a non Apple box would be a better choice.)

Thanks.

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Nobody actually ever said that. :|

It is a direct quote from Bill Gates.

Meant to add, 32 GB DIMMS are cheaper than 16 GB 1866 MHz at least from our HP resellers, so I'm sure it won't be long before someone gets Apple certified full speed RAM

Is it the speed of the RAM that is slowing it down or is it that, when you pile in that much RAM, it clogs down the memory controller. I do not know.

You know what. I like your comment. It's not attacking anyone, it's a positive comment on someone else's idea and you're being polite. I wish there were more commenters like you in the Internet. Thank you, sir.

Go sniff the litter box!

(Joke. please don't be offended.)

 

[Michael Goff]

I would love to have 10 or 20 Pro's maxed out to run Memcashed on. They would be great for a CoLo DB server. (I am sure, this is one of the few times a non Apple box would be a better choice.)




It is a direct quote from Bill Gates.



Is it the speed of the RAM that is slowing it down or is it that, when you pile in that much RAM, it clogs down the memory controller. I do not know.



Go sniff the litter box!

(Joke. please don't be offended.)

No it isn't. It is a line attributed to him, but nobody has ever found out where he supposedly did.

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1997/01/1484
http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...te_won_t_go_away_but_did_Gates_really_say_it_
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.folklore.computers/mpjS-h4jpD8

 

[MagnusVonMagnum]

Only 30 years ago the maximum RAM you could get was 128KB. I'm guessing in 30 years time we'll see 128TB RAM.

Assuming you're talking strictly about Macs rather than home computers in general (e.g. the Amiga less than a year later came with 256-512KB ram and was readily expandable to 8.5MB), you "could" expand the original Mac to 512 kB by means of soldering sixteen IC sockets to accept 256 kb RAM chips in place of the factory-installed chips (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Macintosh).

 

[saberahul]

Large three-dimensional engineering simulation tools for one thing. Even if the app supports GPU processing I am not aware of any GPU-based systems that have anywhere near that much RAM.

What kind of engineering simulation tools? Give me some examples?

 

[MrXiro]

And it makes the 1 GB of RAM in the iPad Air a joke

You two are seriously comparing a $500 mobile device's RAM to a $3000 professional work station's RAM?

I really hope you're joking...

 

[Ralf The Dog]

What kind of engineering simulation tools? Give me some examples?

Finite element analysis.

 

[everything-i]

Tsk tsk, you young whippersnappers had it easy. My first computer had 16k of RAM.

That's noting my first computer came with 1k of RAM arrived as a box of electronic components that I had to solder together myself. Back then 16k was an expensive luxury but if you tell kids that today and they won't believe you. 😀

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What kind of engineering simulation tools? Give me some examples?

Finite element analysis tools are very hungry on RAM, analyse a complex model and 128GB fills up in no time.

 

[spoonie1972]

That's noting my first computer came with 1k of RAM arrived as a box of electronic components that I had to solder together myself. Back then 16k was an expensive luxury but if you tell kids that today and they won't believe you. 😀

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Finite element analysis tools are very hungry on RAM, analyse a complex model and 128GB will soon fill up.

Hah, I (also?) built a zx81 with my dad 😀 - that membrane keyboard… oh boy was it bad.

 

[everything-i]

Hah, I (also?) built a zx81 with my dad 😀 - that membrane keyboard… oh boy was it bad.

Those were the days, can't tell you how excited I was when that box of components arrived. Took me and my dad a few days to get it working but it was worth it. My entire career in computing started with that little black box. Keyboard was terrible though 😉

 

[RobertMartens]

It's seriously scary how fast technology is moving nowadays, go back 5 years and talk about a computer with 128gb of ram and people would tell you you're chatting rubbish.

OOOh we live in the future, cooooool!!

Seriously dude, you are chatting rubbish.

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That thing has 500 times more RAM than my first computer which had 256MB of RAM. 😱

Mine had 4 MB!!! And mine had twice the normal amount.
It rocked!

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Only 30 years ago the maximum RAM you could get was 128KB. I'm guessing in 30 years time we'll see 128TB RAM.

Hello, do your math again

KB is to GB as GB to the thing that comes after TB
Yeah baby I'm talking PetaBytes!

But you are right, it is hard to fathom! But I bet it won't take thirty years.

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Tsk tsk, you young whippersnappers had it easy. My first computer had 16k of RAM.

Timex Sinclair. The ram kept falling off.

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nonsense, that is euphymism of language.

What does this mean?

 

[skellener]

That was fast.

No, they are slower... 😉

but its 1333 Mhz 32 GB modules run more slowly than the 16 GB 1866 Mhz memory modules it offers, along with those from OWC and Apple.

 

[shaunp]

Honest question. What type of profession/task would warrant the use of 128 GB onboard RAM vs. GPU RAM?

Set up a test lab with a few meaty VM's and you could easily eat through that.

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It's advancing just as fast as ever... Moore's law is still going strong, although you may not notice it quite so much on account of the fact that a lot of devices have been shrinking in recent years since for the average user, things have gotten fast enough and to hold enough data.

But in 6 years, we'll be talking about how new machines can get 1TB of RAM (although I'm a bit doubtful that dedicated computers like the MacPro will still be around in 6 years. Sooner or later I expect we'll be replacing them all with dummy terminals resembling the iPad and just use cloud computing for number crunching.)

There are enough servers out there that can already have over 1TB of RAM. Okay these are servers not desktops, but the technology is there.

 

[MacMan988]

With that much of RAM, all the contents in my mac should be able to loaded into the memory without any problem!

 

[Commy1]

$2500..? A little steep, worth half what the Mac Pro is worth itself!

 

[DenBeke]

Virtualisation - you could run 32 virtual systems with 4GB each, without having to overprovision memory (though you'd obviously have to overprovision CPUs).

However, there are undoubtedly cheaper ways of doing this!

32 virtual systems with 12 cores seems a bit difficult...

Amazing that Mac which everyone compares to a trash can, can do more than any computer out there...even those fancy gaming computers with lights and "high end specs"

I'm sure you can do more with on a quad processor motherboard with 10 core Xeon E7's with 1TB of ram...

 

[Marsontherocks]

Only 30 years ago the maximum RAM you could get was 128KB. I'm guessing in 30 years time we'll see 128TB RAM.

Well, 15 years ago it was 128MB. That makes it a 10 time increase each 15 years. You jumped MB in your logical calculation. That would make it 128KB 30 years ago, then 128MB 15 years ago and 128GB today. So in 15 years we "should" see 128TB RAM in computers and 128PT in 30 years 😉 And now people will ridicule why we would EVER need that much RAM... 😛

 

[spoonie1972]

I hope in 15 years the metric by which we allocate memory is completely different than a bunch of planar on/off switches.

 

[antonis]

Well, 15 years ago it was 128MB. That makes it a 10 time increase each 15 years. You jumped MB in your logical calculation. That would make it 128KB 30 years ago, then 128MB 15 years ago and 128GB today. So in 15 years we "should" see 128TB RAM in computers and 128PT in 30 years 😉 And now people will ridicule why we would EVER need that much RAM... 😛

Most probably, yes. But the computing speed should be increased exponentially in order to be able to handle all the data stored in such ram quantities. TBH, I wouldn't be sure if the CPU speeds will see such a speed increase.

 

[SlCKB0Y]

It's seriously scary how fast technology is moving nowadays, go back 5 years and talk about a computer with 128gb of ram and people would tell you you're chatting rubbish.

We were pretty gobsmacked when this server turned up at my work 3 years ago

That's 256GB of RAM and 4 x 6 core processors with multithreading (48 threads).

Move forward three years to now and every server we purchase has 256GB RAM, 40 threads and is half the height of that blade.

 

[Antares]

Wow. 128 GB RAM makes me wish I had a profession that lets me make use of that much memory.

And the money to easily pay for it.