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Linux boxes using mobos with 16Gb RAM?

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Albretch Mueller

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Dec 15, 2009, 11:57:07 AM12/15/09
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There are a number of commercial motherboards sporting 16Gb RAM
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(bizrate.com/motherboards/motherboard-16-gb-ram/)
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and I was wondering if any of you have actually crammed (and
tested ;-) 16Gb RAM on any of them
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Two things that matter to me greatly are solid hardware design/
stability and stable implementation of ACPI (hardware + BIOS + Linux/
Debian kernel) so that I can simply suspend or hibernate my box any
time I need and get it up again whenever at no time
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Any experiences you would like to share?
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Thanks
lbrtchx
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Aragorn

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Dec 15, 2009, 2:28:20 PM12/15/09
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On Tuesday 15 December 2009 17:57 in comp.os.linux.hardware, somebody
identifying as Albretch Mueller wrote...

> There are a number of commercial motherboards sporting 16Gb RAM
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> (bizrate.com/motherboards/motherboard-16-gb-ram/)
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> and I was wondering if any of you have actually crammed (and
> tested ;-) 16Gb RAM on any of them

Tyan Thunder n6650W (S2915) ccNUMA board, with 32 GB of ECC registered
DDR2 (pc5300) and two AMD Opteron 2218 HE processor chips (dualcore,
2.6 GHz, 65 Watts). Powered by Gentoo, running virtual machines on top
of the Xen hypervisor - Xen.org, not XenServer. ;-)

> Two things that matter to me greatly are solid hardware design/
> stability and stable implementation of ACPI (hardware + BIOS + Linux/
> Debian kernel) so that I can simply suspend or hibernate my box any
> time I need and get it up again whenever at no time

I don't use hibernating/suspending. The box I've just described runs
servers which have to be available 24/7, so... ;-) (Yet the BIOS is
fully ACPI-compliant, though.)

Another suggestion - but I have no personal experience with them - would
be Supermicro. They have boards that support up to 128 GB.

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*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

Albretch Mueller

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Dec 15, 2009, 5:53:56 PM12/15/09
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On Dec 15, 2:28 pm, Aragorn <arag...@chatfactory.invalid> wrote:
> I don't use hibernating/suspending.
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the thing is this box I will need for some heavy processing, but not
as a 24x7 server
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> Another suggestion - but I have no personal experience with them - would
> be Supermicro. They have boards that support up to 128 GB.
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yes truly amazing! I guess only people doing research (or gaming ;-))
need that kind of power
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http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/matrix/index.cfm
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lbrtchx
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