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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:44:13 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 08:36:13AM -0500, Paul Jackson wrote:
> YH wrote:
> > interesting, that 512nodes/4096 box physics memory is not continuous?
> 
> If each node board is stuffed with the same amount of RAM,
> and that amount of RAM is a power of two size, then you

There are likely per node memory holes too, right?

So even in that scenario it would be not continuous.

-Andi