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Some intel server CPUs support 57 bit addresses [1]

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_5-level_paging



Are there actual computers running these CPUs addressing that much real or virtual memory?

What’s the practical purpose of implementing that in Ice Lake?


Apparently AWS will rent you a machine with 24 TB, so that's within an order of magnitude of the 256 TB limit.




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