If you’ve ever taken the time to read http://www.tpc.org/results/FDR/TPCC/hp_orca1tb_win64_fdr.pdf, you might find a bit in there that’s confusing.   ''Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition 64-bit Service Pack 1 was configured to utilize ''soft NUMA'', a feature that allows network connections to be affined to specific groups of CPUs ...

Back in the 1997 time frame, I gave a presentation projecting out when 64-bit operating systems and applications should become pervasive in the high volume platforms. My best estimate was this would be some time in 2003 or 2004. This meant that hardware platforms should be ready in 2001 or 2002 to allow for reasonable software availability, ...