"now that's a whopping amount of ram"

San Francisco (CA) – You can’t have enough RAM, as is often said in the computer world, and Intel has demoed 16 GB RAM sticks at its Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.  The RAM is made by Hynix and uses technology from MetaRAM to stack all the individual DRAMs onto the stick.  Intel reps showed off the memory inside a number crunching server that was populated with 10 of these sticks for a total capacity of 160 GB of memory – heck some people don’t even have hard drives this big.

The server was running dual Nehalem EP processors and was churning through a massive 100 GB for the top ten customers of a company.  An Intel rep told us the program had loaded the file into RAM and this gave approximately a 1000 times speedup versus doing the same computation from the hard drive.

The upcoming Nehalem processor will use triple channel DDR3 memory so you’ll need to fill three memory slots for maximum memory bandwidth. source