To be honest, it was a very paralell process. I could do a fraction of the compute, needing a fraction of the RAM, but taking a shit ton more time.
Also, theres no perfect machine for this use. I can have 3.5 times more RAM than needed, or start swapping and waste time.
Tell your friend to open source the algorithm.. Somebody will surely point at a easy optimization. 100 others will just shit on your friend
*looking at the 14TB cluster I had running for 18 hours
Yep, nobody would ever need that much memory
Nah, pump the humidity. Free sauna!
There are rednecks with guns hoping for an excuse. So it's just plain evil.
The "first world" was defined as US and their allies, 2nd world as USSR and their allies and 3rd world as no aligned. Now, US is run by Russian assets trying to replicate the third Reich. So I guess it should be second world instead?
It's an e-commerce platform.
/s