Some time ago I decided to update RAM on my main machine - the Raptor
Engineering Blackbird. This OpenPOWER workstation has "just" 4-core CPU
(16 threads) which is still OK for most of tasks. But these 32 GB of
RAM are not enough for some tasks. I occasionally need to generate some
larger data sets and typical size is about 39 GB. This is OK but it
means swapping to the disk. Not only swapping is not ideal for a SSD
but it also greatly slows things down.
Thus I have decided to upgrade my RAM to 64 GB. It's easy and
relatively inexpensive these days - I got a pair of never used 32 GB
ECC RAM sticks for some 70 EUR. The only problem is that I have had to
remove my older RAM moduli because the Blackbird has just 2 RAM slots.
Is there anyone in the EU who needs a pair of Blacbird/Talos II -
compatible RAM (2x16 GB) jsut for shipping costs?
In any case I am now testing them. Some 40 GB are in use now. The rest
is still free. But I thing that a need to make larger models will arise
soon..
