Where to purchase a server capable of 512GB of RAM? [closed]

Solution 1:

The HP DL700 series of servers support a maximum of 512GB of memory. The DL785 G6 which is being released in September will also support AMD's new 6 core processors.

Edit: I made the assumption you wanted x86 architecture here. But, since someone already mentioned Itanium I think I'll throw in a link to SGI Altix. Their Altix 450 "mid-range" server can go up to 854 GB and 76 cores. The Altix 4700 goes to 1024 cores and 128 TB of memory. That's not a cluster, but one shared memory system :) Of course at that point you're looking at several rows of racks of gear for this one "server".

Solution 2:

Sun makes some really solid hardware. This one can go up to 512GB of RAM:

http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4600/index.xml

They also have a couple of SPARCS that can do 1TB of RAM:

http://www.sun.com/servers/finder/index.xml?cat=all&c7eefa02-3698-11de-857b-080020a9ed93=min257.0max8192.0

Solution 3:

A good option from IBM is the x3950 enterprise servers. They are System X (x86 / x86_64) servers and you can put up to 256GB (and 4 processors) into one node.

But you can also partition them together and have 4 x3950s acting as a single system, giving you 1TB of memory, 16 CPUs (Mmmm... hex cores gives you 96 cores total).

(disclosure: My company is an IBM business partner and we sell these systems)

Solution 4:

You may also consider HP Integrity high-end servers, as well as a mid-range rx8640. Based on Itanium archtecture.