Hardware Architecture Support (PC) | Linux | Windows |
x86 (Intel) | Y | Y
N (Starter not all) |
AMD64/Intel64 (AMD/Intel) | Y | Y
N (Starter) |
IA-64 (Intel) | Y | N |
Hardware Architecture Support (current) | ||
PPC64 - PowerPC-64 (AIM) | Y | N |
SPARC64 (Sun) | Y | N |
ARM (ARM) | Y | N |
PA-RISC (HP) | Y | N |
Cell (STI) | Y | N |
AVR32 (Atmel) | Y | N |
Blackfin (Analog Devices) | Y | N |
MN10300/AM33 (MEI/Panasonic) | Y |
N |
Orion Feroceon (Marvell) | Y |
N |
System i (AS/400) - POWER (IBM) | Y | N |
Cray - Opteron (Cray/AMD) | Y | N |
z/Architecture (IBM) | Y | N |
ETRAX CRIS (Axis) | Y | N |
H8 (Renesas/Hitachi) | Y | N |
SH - SuperH (Renesas/Hitachi) | Y | N |
SH64 - SuperH64 (Renesas/Hitachi) | Y | N |
V850 (NEC) | Y | N |
MIPS-64 (MIPS) | Y | N |
MIPS-64 (Cavium OCTEON) | N
Y (patch) |
N |
MIPS (MIPS) | Y | N |
Hardware Architecture Support (non-current) | ||
PPC - PowerPC (AIM) | Y | N |
SPARC32 (Sun) | Y | N |
Alpha (DEC) | Y | N |
Cray - pre-Opteron (Cray) | N | N |
System i (AS/400) - IMPI (IBM) | N | N |
System i (AS/400) - RS64 (IBM) | Y | N |
m68k (Motorola) | Y | N |
m88k (Motorola) | N
Y (branch) |
N |
S/390x (IBM) | Y | N |
S/390 (IBM) | Y | N |
MIPS (DEC) | Y | N |
Hardware Architecture Support (game consoles) | ||
Wii (Nintendo) | Y | N |
Xbox 360 (Microsoft) | Y | N
Y (branch)39 |
Xbox (Microsoft) | Y | N
Y (branch)39 |
PS3/Playstation 3 (Sony) | Y | N |
PS2/Playstation 2 (Sony) | Y | N |
Gamecube (Nintendo) | Y | N |
Hardware Architecture Support (other) | ||
others | Y | N |
Multiprocessor Support (architecture) | Linux | Windows |
Multiprocessor - SMP | Y | N (Starter, Basic, Premium)
Y (Business, Ultimate, Enterprise)' |
Multiprocessor - NUMA | Y | N (Starter, Basic, Premium)
Y (Business, Ultimate, Enterprise)' |
Hyperthreading (SMT) | Y | Y
N (Starter)' |
Multicore | Y | Y
N (Starter)' |
Hyperthreading SMT (limits) | Linux | Windows |
Maximum number of hyperthreads - 32bit | 2 (hardware limit) | 0 (Starter)
2 (hardware limit) (others)' |
Maximum number of hyperthreads - 64bit | 2 (hardware limit) | 0 (Starter)
2 (hardware limit) (others)' |
Multicore (limits) | Linux | Windows |
Maximum number of cores - 32bit | 2 (hardware limit)' | 0 (Starter)
2 (hardware limit) (others)' |
Maximum number of cores - 64bit | 4 (hardware limit)' | 0 (Starter)
4 (hardware limit) (others)' |
Multiprocessor (limits) | Linux | Windows |
Maximum number of CPUs - 32bit SMP | 32 (logical)' | 1 (Starter, Basic, Premium) |
Maximum number of CPUs - 32bit NUMA | 32 or 1024?' | 1 (Starter, Basic, Premium) |
Maximum number of CPUs - 64bit SMP | 255 (AMD64/Intel64)
1024 (IA-64)' |
0 (Starter)
1 (Basic, Premium) |
Maximum number of CPUs - 64bit NUMA | >102443' | 0 (Starter)
1 (Basic, Premium) |
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