Pfft ... We were testing RHEL 6 on machines with 2 and 4 TB of RAM (in a single machine) the other day.
They have lots of cores and are very NUMA.
They have lots of cores and are very NUMA.
RHEL 6 = Red Hat Enterprise Linux NUMA = Non-Uniform Memory Access
I would have thought TB and RAM were easier than RHEL and NUMA.
NUMA is 90's tech from Sequent.
From: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/21/redhat_rhel6_beta_1/
The big HP NUMA boxes are Superdome and Superdome 2, and those have global memory access, though access to the local memory is faster than the remote memory; the requisite non-uniform memory access speeds.
Last I checked, the current Superdome and Superdome 2 series maxed out around two and four terabytes of physical memory.
If the current four terabyte maximum memory configurations and possibly the architectural 50-bit addressing aren't enough and you're willing and able to buy that much physical memory, then HP would probably interested in chatting with you.
No RHEL on Itanium, though.