TKS wrote:
Sorry I can't be of use in your inquiry but I was wondering what sort of tasks do users (not business oriented computation) with 32GB of RAM actually do on their laptops for instance O_o ?
I am a radio astronomer by trade, and the datasets I deal with are very large (e.g. 1/2 GB for a single image, and >100 GB for one datacube). As well the software that processes it needs to have access to alot of RAM. For example, some of the fortran programs I run to process data actually take 14GB RAM to just compile them! Then, in running some of these tasks (e.g. fast fourier transforms) those programs will often use 8-12 GB RAM. As well, visualizing the data (i.e. display it) and being able to take in the big picture while simultaneously seeing fine details is the way big science is done today in radio astronomy. With 16GB of RAM I can display 16GB of data at once, which is pretty good, but twice as much would be a more efficient way of looking at it, and might make the difference between discovering something new in the universe or missing it...
Quite simply hardware has not caught up to the amount of data that is produced by today's observations.
Anyone out there that knows if the G74 can actually take 8GB sticks?
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G74SX-CST1-CBIL, i7 2630QM 2GHz
32GB DDR3 RAM @1333MHz
GTX560M 3GB DDR5 (192 bit)
17.3" LED 1920x1080
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