expanding past 1 TB on amd64

[Bob Bishop]

Hi,

On 17 Jul 2013, at 15:17, Kurt Lidl wrote:

>> On 7/16/2013 2:12 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
>>> ... The Haswell line of CPUs is widely reported to
>>>> support DIMMs twice as large, and it's due in September.  That would
>>>> make the systems of late 2013 hold up to 1536GB of memory.
>> 
>> I'd point you at stuff like the Supermicro X8BQ6 series of mainboards.
>> QP E5-8800 systems with 1 TB of memory have been around since 2011.
> 
> That might have been true, but I did check SuperMicro's
> "motherboard matrix" of available products before posting.
> 
> The largest listed memory configuration on
> any of their current products is 768GB.
> 
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/matrix/?cpuclass=all&sorton=memory
> 
> -Kurt

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon7000

Looks like their matrix is not up-to-date.

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Bob Bishop
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