Question : Problem: Windows 2003 Enterprise - 8-Way Symmetric Multiprocessing

What does 8-Way Symmetric Multiprocessing actually mean?

Nowadays systems are coming out with 2 - 4 cores per CPU.

Does 8-Way Symmetric Multiprocessing mean only 8 cores are available per OS or 8 physical CPUs no matter the number of cores?

Answer : Problem: Windows 2003 Enterprise - 8-Way Symmetric Multiprocessing

No, the server will see 16 total cores.  Windows identifies each Quad core processor as a single unit.

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