From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 17 15:26:47 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE7F35E5 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:26:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qe0-x233.google.com (mail-qe0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c02::233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 758F4880 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:26:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qe0-f51.google.com with SMTP id a11so1179664qen.24 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 08:26:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=LaZVWk9T4SrMCwQgrFeOb47XKh5WXl4LNR36C8Skkww=; b=yc9NfVG6UfSzhrAtKsn7MtWSQeza+yJJXUSip7VAS/k4NYd1sb3Fx9TSyFx9QNO750 ykmTO55AnLwaFMJWCGI3NYfo5sBIciz6Y4Czmd5ooTPeaXfb65XwOMjhCUltYF7iqYUk bFaE1B4YtQ/TEO3j4Q/9xhEk85k6lOn1SFFgZRn9iudTtxFgWuAEaF3Heo/G/uYnxrpQ LCgCav/MEYcrv7YRQmUP9h2y+wOJBB5SgvK4GxeoLp+QEKKioRfXF8z7AQuHALxywU0z FuFVKquCl6tAodUzLXWH/ealSCY+Znb0AEGX8yWH2rzXMKqrsDXHUAS/ATLay3dhGHRN Jkqg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.229.196.73 with SMTP id ef9mr1926327qcb.85.1374074807011; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 08:26:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.49.135 with HTTP; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 08:26:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <51E63E59.6040709@bluerosetech.com> <51E6A776.7050101@pix.net> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 08:26:46 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: expanding past 1 TB on amd64 From: Freddie Cash To: Bob Bishop Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: FreeBSD-Current , Kurt Lidl X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:26:47 -0000 On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Bob Bishop wrote: > 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. There's also several AMD motherboards that support 1 TB of RAM: http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/AMD_G34.cfm?pg=MOBO You know, the CPUs that started the 64-bit x86 support ... :) -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com