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Properly configuring a server with balanced memory is critical to ensure memory bandwidth is maximized and latency is minimized. When server memory is configured incorrectly, unwanted variables are introduced into the memory controllers’ algorithm, which inadvertently slows down overall system performance. To mitigate this risk of reducing or even bottlenecking system performance, it is important to understand what constitutes balanced, near balanced and unbalanced memory configurations.
Dell Technologies has published this brief to educate PowerEdge customers on what balanced memory means, why it is important and how to properly populate memory to 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors for a balanced configuration.