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 ...