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On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Brooks Davis wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 07:34:31PM +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> > Design a computer (probably multiple AMD 64's) to handle 10TB of memory
> > (+ a few extra Gb of ram for system overhead) and hold the file in one
> > physical computer system.
> You would do well to read up on the techniques used by google to manage
> unreliable systems and provide high-performance search.
what about the tandem non-stop systems? it'll cost a pile of bucks.. but,
i'm still unsure why a large cluster of oracle, or any specially designed
rdbms wouldn't do the job.

-w-