[geeks] Are these servers that bad?

[Lionel Peterson]

Wait, the 8 socket system linked to has 8 riser boards (one per socket), but
there are two versions of the risers, some with four memory slots and some
with eight, right?

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19121-01/sf.x4600/819-4342-18/html/z40007f01291423
.html

It's not clear which risers this $400 item includes.

Lionel

> On Jun 19, 2014, at 10:10 AM, Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org>
wrote:
>
> It's 64GB of RAM (not "megs").  The system boards have 8 dimm slots each,
> for a total of 64 per server.  With 4GB DIMMs (fairly cheap these days),
> you could easily take it to 256GB ram.