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Date:      Fri, 5 May 2023 17:23:15 +0200
From:      Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Support for more than 256 CPU cores
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On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 3:38=E2=80=AFPM Ed Maste wrote:
> FreeBSD supports up to 256 CPU cores in the default kernel configuration
> (on Tier-1 architectures).  Systems with more than 256 cores are
> available now, and will become increasingly common over FreeBSD 14=E2=80=
=99s
> lifetime. (..)

Congratulations! :-)

I am looking after AMD Threadripper with 64 cores 2 threads each that
will give 128 CPU to the system.. maybe this year I could afford that
beast then I will report back after testing :-)

In upcoming years variations of RISC-V will provide unheard before
number of CPU in a single SoC (i.e. 1000 CPU) at amazing power
efficiency and I saw reports of prototype with 3 x SoC of this kind on
a single board :-)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/risc-v-ai

--=20
CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info



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