The UV 2 system uses the NUMALink 5 interconnect to lash together up to 4,096 cores and up to 16TB of main memory into the largest shared memory system on the planet.Titinger said that the ramp for the UV 2 system was slower than for the UV 1 announced three years ago, mostly because there was so much pent-up demand for a giant Xeon-based shared memory system that could run either Windows or Linux