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Does a machine that sits under my desk and is used for electromagnetics simulation work (one at a time) count as a desktop?Post your 12, 16, 24, or 32 GB desktop machines (no servers). What do you do with that much memory?
Does a machine that sits under my desk and is used for electromagnetics simulation work (one at a time) count as a desktop?
The problem is with basically any 3D simulation work, the overall model complexity follows a cubic relationship to the mesh pitch and ram requirements are basically proportional to model complexity (the software can use disk instead but it slows to a crawl if it has to). So they can basically eat up as much memory as you can throw at them.I had no idea mag sims required so much memory.
@Madcoder:
What work you do that requires 12GB+ ram? Windows 7 and recent Linux kernels (2.6+) are pretty good about recycling memory without rebooting.
Hey come on, don't throw a wrench in my excuse for more memory on my next build with all that logic.
Running two or three VMs on my workstation, while doing a lot of multitasking work causes me to run out of memory on occasion. Sure, with swapping and what-not optimizations it still runs smoothly, although I have had VMWare pop up and complain sometimes. The reboot part is just compulsive after having those occasional VMWare hangs while I was gone for a few hours.
I do similar things with ramdrives. I currently store the Second Life cache in it. Helps a lot when inworld.I use a 4GB Photoshop scratch/RAMDisk out of my 16GB. It's where all my internet temp files, as well as system wide temps are. Opening up PS CS 5 64-bit in that environment is greased lightning and having a boat-load of high rez images open, think folders worth, is not a big deal. It's a nice luxury to have.