Wow, sir, that's a new one

[chaobell]

"I got 250 memories of gigabyte..."

Fortunately, I'm not waiting on this guy.

[edit: the guy stood there and massacred the entire spec list of his computer. 1.something Pentium Intel 4. 52X (yes, he said "X") CD-RAM. Yes, CD-RAM. We're still not sure how much RAM or hard drive space he had, because he kept changing the numbers and the megabytes and the gigabytes and whatever the hell else he was throwing in there because it sounded SMRT. Then he proceeded to slaughter the entire spec list of the computer he wants. 3.something Pentium Intel 4, (number)X(number)X(number) DVD burner (he had some amazing term for this too, but I can't recall what it was on account of me alternately beating my head on my desk and trying not to laugh too loud at the time) 256 gigabyte monitor card, and a bunch of other shit we couldn't really figure out. And then the kicker: "...well, I don't know nothin' about a computer." YOU DON'T SAY.]

Comments

[jecook]

Wow. 250 GB of ram, huh? Think he's got an extra case to hold all that?
::snicker::

I wish I had *4* GB of memory. it's help my quake deathmatches run smoother...

[knittinggoddess.livejournal.com]

Or maybe it's 250 mb and he's just inserting the word GB because he thinks it sounds good.

?

[astevenson.livejournal.com]

except that 250Gig of RAM is entirely feasible in the new machines that top out at 16 Terabytes of RAM. let's just say you can calculate a million digits of Pi in a couple seconds.

Re: ?

[fuzzyr.livejournal.com]

Perhaps in a mainframe, but not in a PC. 16 TB is the maximum addressability, not capacity.

Clarification... and why I know what I'm talking about

[fuzzyr.livejournal.com]

Okay, disclaimer: just because I work for IBM doesn't mean I speak for them.

To be clear, I work on mainframes for a living.

zSeries: z990 (http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/z990/glance.html)
This tops out at 256GB of RAM.

iSeries: cluster i5 595 (http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/hardware/595/specifications.html)
This tops out at 2TB of RAM.

pSeries: p5 595 (http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/highend/595_specs.html)
This also tops out at 2TB of RAM.

xSeries: Intel-based (http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/xseries/x460.html)
Tops out at 64GB of RAM.

Also, remember that calculating Pi fast has almost nothing to do with memory and everything to do with number crunching speed (CPU speed).

Re: Clarification... and why I know what I'm talking about

[fuzzyr.livejournal.com]

Someone posted a screened comment with the follow text. Since I cannot reply to it directly, here is the reply anyway.

> you think that ram has almost nothing to do with memory. amusing. in
> fact, it is precisely the size of registers associated with 64bit
> processing and the large memory buffers that allow the processor,
> regardless of speed to do its work.

registers are in a CPU, not memory. Granted, using a 64-bit processor can speed up certain calculation, but more RAM != more speed.

I'm not involved in tech support anymore. Instead, I am actually a programmer in cryptography, so I'm very familiar with using assembler language to perform crypto operations, and with optimizations for using a 64-bit processor instead of a 32-bit one.

Re: ?

[astevenson.livejournal.com]

sure, they don't make 4Tb sticks of ram yet but they might someday. just pointing out that the guy could have been right, in some small way.

Re: ?

[fuzzyr.livejournal.com]

I suppose. Still, there don't yet exist machines that can have that much memory.

Re: ?

[chaobell]

Feasible, maybe.

But considering this is a Joe Luser's Home PC, the chances of that are "exceedingly slim" to "precisely fuckall."

[tmercenary.livejournal.com]

background check and a waiting period......

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I have more than 250 memories of dealing with gigabytes of morons like you, sir.

[dangermouse74.livejournal.com]

ha i like this one! much better than the above discussion that just got taken waaaay to far. dorks hehe. even more so than me :-)

[xdownfornowx.livejournal.com]

awesome icon

[taleya.livejournal.com]

bwahahah! I was wondering how long it would take that ugly-ass dog to make it to iconage....

WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW??

[benatwork.livejournal.com]

What is that from? It looks like a zombie chihuahua. O.o

[taleya.livejournal.com]

That lil' bastard is the reigning champion of "The World's ugliest dog" award

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/uglydog.asp