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dsr_ 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: In defence of swap: common misconceptions (2018)

Have you considered having one box with 4TB of RAM to do the computation, then sending it around to all the other nodes?

jitl 11 months ago [–]

Each node handles an independent ~4TB shard of data in horizontal scale-out fashion. Perhaps we could try some complex shenanigans where we rent 4TB RAM nodes, compute, send to 512GB RAM nodes then terminate the 4TB nodes but that’s a bunch of extra complexity for not much of a win.

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