Sun Microsystems Inc. is likely to unveil new processors as early as next year that would allow customers essentially to double the number of processors in their existing systems without incurring any ...

It's clear that Intel will have the edge in numeric core count, even if not necessarily in actual multi-core performance.

While Hyper-V largely handles NUMA placement automatically, admins can still hurt VM performance by overallocating virtual CPUs past a single physical CPU's core count, making it important to size VMs ...