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> 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