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Andreas Schilling‏ @aschilling 5 Jul 2020

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Pokemon Theme Rendered in Windows Task Manager with 896 cores / 1.792 threads. Source: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2KMfg_xRqNLIB5jeUVpNGg/videos …pic.twitter.com/xjkzSc43SD

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Hector Martin‏ @marcan42 5 Jul 2020

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I'm skeptical but haven't found a blatant smoking gun yet; I don't know how task manager behaves with that many logical processors. However, I'm pretty sure the claimed hardware config is impossible, so it's at the very least a VM, and probably sped up.

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Hector Martin‏ @marcan42 5 Jul 2020

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@winocm thoughts?

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Hector Martin‏ @marcan42 5 Jul 2020

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This claims Windows Server 2019 does up to 1024 logical processors (threads), which wouldn't be enough. Though it's just an HP spec. I can't find a limit on MS's site. https://assets.ext.hpe.com/is/content/hpedam/documents/a00056000-6999/a00056655/a00056655enw.pdf …

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Andreas Schilling‏ @aschilling 5 Jul 2020

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One Windows Kernel: „pre-release Windows DataCenter class machine with 896 cores supporting 1792 logical processors and 2TB of RAM!“https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-kernel-internals/one-windows-kernel/ba-p/267142 …

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Hector Martin‏ @marcan42 5 Jul 2020

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So those are the exact same specs... same with the cache (and the L3 cache number is definitely wrong). The tiny size of the CPU usage in the cells, and the implication that this is a HiDPI screen bothers me a lot. Also, the weird gaps around cols 3-5.

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Hector Martin‏ @marcan42 5 Jul 2020

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The gaps imply some kind of alignment issue with columns that are not an exact divider of the window width, but the screenshots I'm finding of task manager don't do that. Could be a poor attempt at editing it. But really, HiDPI on a server? Maybe it's RDP? Still, kinda fishy.

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Hector Martin‏ @marcan42 5 Jul 2020

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I think the real task manager is supposed to have a blue border around the CPU display too, and the CPU section on the left bar is supposed to be selected. So I dunno, unless this is a significantly different version of Windows / task manager, this doesn't really look real.

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Hector Martin‏ @marcan42 5 Jul 2020

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Yeah, the fonts look wrong, "Base Speed" is capitalized "Base speed" in the real one, and there are other minor issues that are unexplainable. I think someone recreated the entire Task Manager UI to fake this (instead of using a screenshot as a base).

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