To understand what Tyler had just accomplished with the DRAM, you had to first understand what DRAM actually was.
Dynamic Random Access Memory—DRAM—was the heart of any computing system's active operations.
Whenever you turned on a computer, your operating system didn't run from the storage drive. No, it was first loaded into DRAM.
That's because DRAM offered ultra-low latency, allowing data access times in the nanoseconds range, which allows the CPU to execute processes, switch tasks, and handle real-time operations without delays.
In short, DRAM wasn't where your files lived, it was like where your computer thinks.
By 2010, the DRAM capacities in regular consumer computers typically hovered between 2GB and 8GB. High-end workstations might push 16GB. Servers' ran with between 32GB and 128GB of DRAM.
Anything above that was not just rare, it was industrial or government-grade and expensive.
But Tyler had achieved the inconceivable. He had created DRAM nodes of 16TB each.
