Exploring thread and memory placement on NUMA architectures: Solaris and Linux, UltraSPARC/ FirePlane and Opteron/Hypertransport

Date

2006

Authors

Antony, Joseph
Janes, Pete
Rendell, Alistair

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Springer

Abstract

Modern shared memory multiprocessor systems commonly have non-uniform memory access (NUMA) with asymmetric memory bandwidth and latency characteristics. Operating systems now provide application programmer interfaces allowing the user to perform specific

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Keywords: Application programmer interfaces; BLAS library; Complex applications; Hardware platform; Memory allocation; Memory bandwidths; Non uniform memory access; Operating systems; Opteron; Performance characteristics; Shared memory multiprocessor systems; Simpl

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Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2006)

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Conference paper

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2037-12-31