https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/question-on-dynamic-data/m-p/824400#M6128 Dear all,<BR /><BR />I have some questions about dynamic allocatable array while reading steve's article on "memory limits for applications on windows"<BR /><A href="http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/memory-limits-applications-windows/" target="_blank">http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/memory-limits-applications-windows/</A><BR /><BR />If I am running a 64 bit win7 with 2GB ram, I guess even if I declare large matrices as dynamic data, I am still pretty much constrained by the 2GB ram limit. Does it also mean that if I wanna reach the 8TB limit of dynamic data, I need 8TB of ram to do so?<BR /><BR />Thanks so much for your kind help.<BR /><BR />Regards,<BR />John<BR /> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:11:53 GMT johncolona 2010-09-13T07:11:53Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/question-on-dynamic-data/m-p/824400#M6128 Dear all,<BR /><BR />I have some questions about dynamic allocatable array while reading steve's article on "memory limits for applications on windows"<BR /><A href="http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/memory-limits-applications-windows/" target="_blank">http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/memory-limits-applications-windows/</A><BR /><BR />If I am running a 64 bit win7 with 2GB ram, I guess even if I declare large matrices as dynamic data, I am still pretty much constrained by the 2GB ram limit. Does it also mean that if I wanna reach the 8TB limit of dynamic data, I need 8TB of ram to do so?<BR /><BR />Thanks so much for your kind help.<BR /><BR />Regards,<BR />John<BR /> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:11:53 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/question-on-dynamic-data/m-p/824400#M6128 johncolona 2010-09-13T07:11:53Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/question-on-dynamic-data/m-p/824401#M6129 John,<BR /><BR />Today's operating systems can temporarily store memory on disk. This mechanism is known as "<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging">paging</A>". It is therefore possible for an application to use more memory than is physically present. (Needless to say that this might have a significant impact on the performance.)<BR /><BR />Kind regards<BR />Thomas Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:29:49 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/question-on-dynamic-data/m-p/824401#M6129 Thomas_W_Intel 2010-09-13T12:29:49Z