17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
"Perry E. Metzger" writes:
My bogometer just triggered, so I decided to check your math.
As I said, I was off by a few orders of magnitude or so.
(Cray C90, 1GW main memory, .5TB drive storage of various types, 9 tape silos) Gee, half a terrabyte. Thats 16,000 times less than you claimed.
The .5TB is *local* storage. The 9 tape silos hold a couple of terabytes, uncompressed.
what you claimed, and its over a million times less storage than you would need, in *RAM*, for the proposed task.
Wouldn't need to be in RAM. Would interleave the search in some banks with loads of data into other banks. Stream the damn thing.