Partitioning responsive to processors having a disparate number of cores

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium and program instructions embodied therein, the program instructions being configured to be executable by a processor of a baseboard management controller in a multi-processor system to cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

• identifying a number of cores present in each of a plurality of central processing units in the multi-processor system;
• initiating operation of the multi-processor system as a single unified node in response to each of the plurality of central processing units having an equal number of cores;
• and
• initiating partitioning of the multi-processor system into first and second independent partitioned nodes in response to a first set of one or more of the central processing units each having a first number of cores and a second set of one or more of the central processing units each having a second number of cores that is different than the first number of cores.