Well, the HP ProLiant DL580 G7 has 64 DIMM slots (supporting 2TB) and supports up to 4 E5-4xxx processors, problem is it looks like they'll only sell you a minimum of 2 CPUs.
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Sabuj Pattanayek <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am not aware of a single socket motherboard that can cope with 500GB >> ram. 2 socket motherboards support about 256GB (128GB per processor) >> or so at the moment and quad socket boards upto 1TB. > > For x86 architectures, the most I'm seeing in any available > motherboard is 12 DIMMs per socket with current dual socket offerings > that go to 768GB (384GB per socket, 32GB per DIMM slot). However if > you go to ark.intel.com and check out the E7-4xxx it shows that it can > address up to 2TB of memory and the E7-8xxx can address up to 4TB of > memory. So with either of these solutions, to maximize the total > amount of memory that any one processor could see in a board filled > with all CPU sockets, you'd need at least 512GB per socket (4 socket > solution for the E7-4xxx and 8 socket for the E7-8xxx), I just don't > see that anyone has made such a motherboard yet. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
