[QUESTION]: Is the 'cycles/ms' benchmark single-threaded?

[jimpil]

Hello there,

I know it's pretty old, but I'm trying to understand the whole 50,273 connection-cycles/ms benchmark. Such a number usually makes sense in a single-threaded situation, but below the diagram, I am reading that 32 threads/connections were used. But that confuses me even more, because the CPU referenced has only 4 cores - so what would be the point of 32 threads?!? If you can help me understand how this number was calculated and/or aggregated, that would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance...