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		cmovq on Feb 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Top byte ignore for fun and memory savings Some intel server CPUs support 57 bit addresses [1] [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_5-level_paging

Waterluvian on Feb 9, 2023 [–]

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?

none_to_remain on Feb 9, 2023 | [–]

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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