> 288 cores is an absurd number of cores.
Way back in the day, I built and ran the platform for a business on Pentium grade web & database servers which gave me 1 "core" in 2 rack units.
That's 24 cores per 48 unit rack, so 288 cores would be a dozen racks or pretty much an entire aisle of a typical data center.
I guess all of Palo Alto Internet eXchange (where two of my boxen lived) didn't have much more than a couple of thousand cores back in 98/99. I'm guessing there are homelabs with more cores than that entire PAIX data center had back then.
Oh yeah, it is not that many cores for the cluster-universe. Just neat to see the number of cores per socket increase.
A while ago I had access to an 8-socket shared memory machine… but this was the semi-olden days, so it was “only” 80 cores. It was a fun machine at the time! We’re so spoiled these days, haha.