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Comment by Retr0id

7 hours ago

I had no idea we had socket counts so high, do you know where I could find a picture of one?

It's bit cheating because it's cluster based system: https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50004268enw

So 4 sockets per chassis, up to 8 chassis in a complete system. Afaik OS sees it as single huge system, that is kinda their special sauce here.

  • How the heck does the OS see it as a single system, is there some pcie or rdma black magic that allows the kernel to just address memory in a different chassis? Maybe CXL?

Sounds like a HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3200, but again keep in mind that's something where there's probably a fabric between nodes one way or another.