dokucama

• Hyperthreading
  • Normally it goes 'better' (ie. more deterministically without it)
• cpubenchmarking
• Core~hardware thread
  • software thread is an OS (linux) thread abstraction
• E3.128, so 128 cores and 2TB RAM

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sun hardware
Sun E-series machine where you have multiple system boards. In the case of the X7-8 there are x4 2-processor-NUMA-boards and when you order the machine you can have it either configured as a pair of mostly independent 4 processor machine (2 dual socket boards) or a single giant 8-processor system.