Greg Edwards-268690 (12/19/2014)

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jasona.work (12/19/2014)

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Brandie Tarvin (12/19/2014)

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Trying another rephrase to see if I understand this correctly.

So basically instead of creating multiple physical processors like memory makers create sticks of RAM, some bright soul thought to "weld" multiple processors into one "container" and hook them together. That way motherboards still only needed one (or two) slots for a CPU but servers and PCs could get the benefits of having multiple processors.

Yes? No? Maybe?

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if that was about the thought process when the engineers came up with the first multi-core CPU...

So, yes, that's a pretty decent way to think of it.

😀

Not directly related, but something to maybe note.

Numa architecture in the machines kind of layers RAM in a similar fashion.

You may have 2 main banks, each tied to a socket. And specific memory (size and speed) optimized to work together.

So memory - and upgrade path - may be a consideration.

You may want to review some of the other licensing - especially for a virtual machine.

Host and how many cores - not what may be allocated to an instance - is the driver.

You can imagine the licensing true up costs, especially if you have multiple 8 or more core procs in a machine.

I liked the old licensing model better - it was much clearer and easier to understand.