The Regulation considers a server product family to have ‘the same num. of available processor sockets and number of available processor sockets populated.’ Any example?

A separate product family shall be defined for a server that does not have all its processor sockets populated, such as a 2-socket server with only 1 processor installed, compared with a server that has all its processor sockets populated, i.e. a 2-socket server with 2 processors installed. Within a given product family the same number of processor sockets and populated sockets has to be maintained.

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