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Scalability Issue

05/25/2009

I've being thinking all the time of a static and moderate (16MB at the most) main memory distributed among different cards, 4MB each.

Lets say, however, that one day I decide to build a card with 8MB instead of 4BM. In such a case, I'll dimension the Trans Table chuck accordingly (just for that card), hence the advantage of a distributed Trans Matrix.

Problem starts when memory increases far beyond "moderation". Imagine that one day I decide to play with dynamic memory and to build a card with 256 MB of dynamic RAM. The Trans Matrix chuck for that amount of memory becomes 8M x 32, that is: 32 MB of static RAM! (about $900 at today's prices).

There are several ways for working this issue out:

1.- Reducing the limit for running processes (currently 128).
2.- Not event thinking about large amount of memory.
3.- Discarding the solution all together.

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