AMD-64 large memory...

[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:31:21PM -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote:

> I realize this is going to sound stupid, but what motherboard, exactly, 
> can physically take 32 Gb of memory? What type of memory and where do 

We have a SunFire v20z ( Newisys 2100
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=55000254 ) which can take up to 16
GBytes DDR-333 ECC (four memory slots for each CPU). It runs with 6 GBytes
with no problems (Oracle, custom search engine working out of memory). 
I think the hardware is certified both for SLES8SP3 and
RHEL3, but do your own research before buying.

Don't buy it from Sun, unless you have special developer discounts. There are
alternative sources for it. The hardware is stable, performant, and
relatively cheap (there are cheaper systems, but these have reliability
problems, see Beowulf archives).

> you get it at a reasonable price? It must cost a fortune for that much. 
> My wife has some applications that need memory beyond 4 Gb so I'm 
> interested in what you have to say.

If you need cheap memory, look on pricewatch.com. 
 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob Cochran
> 
> Joshua Jensen wrote:
> 
> >We have a few machines with 32 gigs of memory... I've not heard of any 
> >problems with them, no.
> >
> >Joshua
> >
> >
> >
> >On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:47:32AM -0800, Forrest Brewer wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>I am interested in the large memory possible in this processor design.
> >>Does anyone have AMD-64 cards with more than 2GB memory running linux?
> >>Any issues?
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> >>Forrest Brewer <forrest at ece.ucsb.edu>
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