I haven't read past the first two articles, but this is (to me) a real interesting look at the details of Windows:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2008/07/21/3092070.aspx
Oh, and 64 CORES BABY! (from the first article)
(http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/markrussinovich/WindowsLiveWriter/PushingtheLimitsofWindowsPhysicalMemory_878B/image_4.png)
What the!
Yah, 64 cores and 2 TB of RAM. The page file is tiny, only 200GB. At least, that's what I think it's telling me there.