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Connor McDonald

Thanks for the question, Juan.

Asked: December 01, 2023 - 6:22 am UTC

Last updated: December 20, 2023 - 7:41 am UTC

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Hi Tom.

Do you know what is exactly happening with SE2 licensing in AMD processors?

There are some issues on the subject:
https://community.amd.com/t5/server-gurus-discussions/epyc-processors-and-oracle-socket-license-metrics/m-p/529684

I thought SE2 limitation is built in the database itself to prevent that any SE2 instance just uses 16 threads of the socket they are in, but this 'multi-core' discussion confuses me. Are not all x86 architectures (Intel, AMD) having two threads per socket?

May you please provide some guidance?

Thanks!

and Connor said...

Thanks for your patience.

I'm not a licensing person (thankfully :-)) but as hardware/CPU architectures change, all database vendors generally make some revisions to how they intend to license things on them.

All I can say at this stage is that there is a LOT of internal discussion going on about this, because even Oracle supplied hardware machines will ultimately have to tackle this.

I'm sorry I don't have anything concrete for you - hopefully this will all get sorted out in the near future.
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