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Whitepaper – Balanced Memory with 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon™ Scalable Processors
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction .................................................................................................................................................3
2. Memory Topography and Terminology.....................................................................................................4
3. Memory Interleaving ..................................................................................................................................5
4. Guidelines for Balancing Memory .............................................................................................................6
4. 1 Overview ...............................................................................................................................................6
4. 2 Identical Memory Modules ...................................................................................................................6
4. 3 Identical Channel Population ...............................................................................................................7
4. 4 Identical Sockets ..................................................................................................................................8
5. Recommended Balanced Configurations .................................................................................................9
5. 1 Traditional DIMMs ................................................................................................................................9
5. 2 Traditional DIMMs with DCPMMs..................................................................................................... 10
6. Near Balanced Configurations ............................................................................................................... 11
7. Unbalanced Memory Topology Illustrations .......................................................................................... 14
8. Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................... 19
9. References .............................................................................................................................................. 19