On 17 Mar 2011, Nigel Wade stated:

My server is an 8-way Opteron SMP box, so all processors are running in
the same address space, and all able to access the full RAM. Small 4-way
SMP boxes with 8- and 12-core Opterons are not uncommon these days. They

Pedant point: Intel multisocket systems are not SMP these days, and I'm
fairly sure the same is true of AMD as well. They're NUMA, with some of
the RAM accessible only through some of the scokets.

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