That depends on the workload? For HPC it’s easy, for other loads like DBs or VMs it’s harder, especially with fewer nodes (e.g a single node running 32 VMs wi

That depends on the workload? For HPC it’s easy, for other loads like DBs or VMs it’s harder, especially with fewer nodes (e.g a single node running 32 VMs with dedicated cores will probably look a lot like a desktop workload with lots of idle cores). I suppose it’s going to be rare to see these in deployments with fewer than several dozen sockets, and workloads must be balanced (so e.g not using dedicated VM cores). That’s I suppose a simplification they can make by focusing only on “datacenter” while intel needs the same design to work from 1 socket to hundreds.