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Foil 7 Supercomputer Memory Sizes and trends in RAM Density

From New CPS615 Foils 25 March95 CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Secs 57
RAM density increases by about a factor of 50 in 8 years
Supercomputers in 1992 have memory sizes around 32 gigabytes (giga = 109)
Supercomputers in year 2000 should have memory sizes around 1.5 terabytes (tera = 1012)

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