mac pro maximun RAM

A RAM disk is software that takes a portion of RAM and makes it a storage drive like your hard drive, it can be saved to a storage drive and loaded when the computer boots up, although it can take some time obviously.

When the computer operates certain things it's needs or saves can instead be accessed or stored to the RAM drive for more speed instead of the slower storage drive.

Because of the RAM drive, there is no lag in accessing or saving, the CPU can operate at maximum efficiency all the time.

Only drawback is when the power goes off while the RAM Disk is in operation as all the contents of RAM are flushed, as it's only temporary memory.

However it's possible to save the RAM disk state to the more permanent and slower drive at certain intervals to preserve data.

Of course the problem is, how to get OS X into a RAM Disk as a lot of it's parts are on the drive. SO those parts would have to be on the RAM Disk and then the symbolic links changed so OS X in memory uses the RAM Disk instead of the drive.

With Apple sailing off for Toy Story/Disney land closed computers where users have no control over their machines anymore like those iOS devices, we will likely never find out.

The real fun geeky stuff will be only on generic PC's in the future.

Yes it adds speed by not saving or loading anything to the storage drive while the computer is in operation.

Well usually large data sets are broken up to peform on many different machines as many CPU's are needed in addiiton to much RAM.

You should talk to the folks over at TeamMacOSX Folding at home, because that's what they use their Mac's for with their spare CPU cycles, you can learn about the folding@home project which involved DNA, perhaps get to talk to the professor Panjay at Stanford about your ideas. 🙂