Re: Allocate Static Memory?

Ian Collins wrote:

> Systems with >1TB of RAM have been around for a while

I had *affordable* systems in mind :-)

(Going on a tangent.)

http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/4000/

"It sup****ts up to 512 sockets under one instance of Linux and as
much as 128TB of globally shared memory."

I'm confused. Assuming 8-GiB DIMMs, how does one fit 16384 DIMMs
in a single system? How does one fit 512 CPUs in a single system?

Is the system as big as a large fridge with a huge backplane, and
tens of daughter boards which accept DIMMs and CPUs?

What I had in mind was a system with a single ATX motherboard.
I think 16 DIMM slots is the maximum, or I am mistaken?
e.g. http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=560

16x8 = 128 GiB which still is a nice number.