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		rualca on June 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I spent 5 years writing my own operating system > These use cases can need TBs of ram. These use cases can need TBs of RAM, but they don't get it in a single node but as a distributed system with tens of GB of RAM per node.

hughrr on June 27, 2021 | [–]

Um, err we have a few tens of 1.5TB memory nodes lurking around. There are plenty of use cases for that out there.

majewsky on June 28, 2021 | [–]

I work in a cloud environment where SAP HANA databases are provisioned. We offer VMs with multible TiB RAM for the larger HANAs.

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