> those big SUNs

I'm pretty sure all the big Sun boxes were SMP, not NUMA, at least during the dot-com era. Not sure about later UltraSPARC T or M Series systems.

Because numa topology is an optimisation problem with a wide solution space, and that its configuration and setup depends on the amount of physical cpus and cores; how the RAM is connected to which lanes; and on and on it goes.

> If it does not, I cannot consider it ready for this century.

Mhmm.