Why does Ubuntu 12.10 only see 8 cores?

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Published on 2012-10-29T15:57:38Z Indexed on 2012/11/01 5:17 UTC
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In our lab we just bought a new machine with two 8-cores Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz processors which also support Hyper-Threading.

I would expect Ubuntu to see 32 processing units, however it only detects 8 of them (the equivalent of just one processor with Hyper-Threading disabled). The bios correctly reports a total of 32 processing units. I am using Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 32 bit.

Any idea about how to solve this?

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