Is there a box of RAM that can be allocated across machines?

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Once I think I remember working for a company that had a bunch of servers. And they had a box that contained a lot of RAM. And they were able to allocate this in chunks of memory to any server in the room. Ring any bells? Can you identify what this box is called? Or what the technology is called? Do they still use them?

Thanks,
 
Solution
You can use virtualization to run a VDI type setup.

Other computers boot from the VDI server and the VDI server provides that computer/client with ram/cpu/gpu.
Its possible some technology from the 70-80s had this feature.

Even SDRAM-133 operated at 1050 MB/s , vastly exceeding even the gigabit of today, 8.4 times faster.

Latency would be an issue with this hypothetical configuration of SDRAM-133 over gigabit as you predicted earlier.

10 gigabit Ethernet of today could just barely handle it, but that technology also didn't exist back the 70s-90s.

That's as far back as I can remember lol.
 
Maybe I can network this computer with my current rigs and share the ram! Oops, no ethernet port.

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