3Gb RAM!!!!!
 

Hello everyone,

I have to run an analysis that needs 3GB of RAM.

Using a 32 bit machine it isn't possible to run a single job that uses more than 2GB of Ram. The solution should be a cluster of machines.

But a bi-processor??? (1.5GB * 2 processors)

Do you have experience of this problem?

Thank you very much Giovanni

Re: 3Gb RAM!!!!!
 

Yes, I have.
A dual processor board could be a solution, but I guess it will be difficult to find a intel based one, which has at least 6 slots for 512 MB memory chips. All the other possibilities 1024 MB chips and appropriate boards have not been affordable six months ago. Maybe they are now.
Greetings Marc

Re: 3Gb RAM!!!!!
 

You can run it on an 2 processor machime with 4 GB of memory (very expensive) in 2 ways:

starlink -Y (uppercase) on 2 processors

or

run it as a 4 processor job (even on a 2 processor machime)

The second one should run more stable but requires a 4 proc. license.

The other way is to switch to a 64 bit platform, run it on a cluster or create a better mesh.

Re: 3Gb RAM!!!!!
 

So a dual xeon 2.66GHz with 4GB of RAM and Linux is ok!!

Thank you Giovanni