VMware ESX Server 2: NUMA Support
White Papers It provides background on Non Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) technologies and a detailed description of the sophisticated NUMA optimizations present in ESX Server 2. This white paper is intended for partners, resellers, and advanced system...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Advantages Of The Compaq F8 SMP Architecture Over A NUMA-Based Architecture
White Papers This paper explains some inherent advantages that SMP servers have over cache-coherent non-uniform memory access (cc-NUMA) servers in 8-way systems and below. Compaq is leveraging its experience with Profusion architecture to develop a new 8-way...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Performance Of The IBM EServer 325 For Scientific And Technical Applications
White Papers The paper also examines memory and processor performance, and the effects of both, Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) and Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) kernels on performance. It incorporates advanced processor and memory features that provide high...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 And Kernel Changes (Level 400)
White Papers Learn about the new kernel transaction manager, the self-healing NTFS file system, I/O completion port improvements, hypervisor support, service security hardening, clean service shutdown, dynamic system address space, improved detection of...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
HP Releases Long-awaited Intel Servers
News But operating system support for this "non-uniform memory access" (NUMA) technology is new for Intel servers. On the x440, a processor can access the memory associated with its four-processor group faster than it can access the memory located...
[February 18, 2003, 8:41]
Microsoft Preparing For High-end Windows
News The software company is working on support for a technology called non-uniform memory access, or NUMA, one method for designing large servers crammed with processors, said Sean McGrane, program manager for Microsoft's top-end Datacenter server.
[April 17, 2002, 11:29]
Red Hat Says Enterprise Linux 5.2 Is Greener
News The new version supports up to 64 CPUs and 512GB of memory, and can virtualise across non-uniform memory access (NUMA) systems. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 includes virtualisation support for bigger systems and more memory architectures.
[May 23, 2008, 13:20]
NASA Fires Up Supercomputer
News SGI's technology is called non-uniform memory access (NUMA), which refers to the fact that it can take a different amount of time to write information to memory depending on how far away a memory bank is from a CPU.
[April 4, 2001, 10:13]
Red Hat Trials Update For IBM And AMD
News The update also should run faster on some Opteron systems because it will recognise "non-uniform memory access" (NUMA) characteristics of some Opteron-based machines. NUMA systems need operating systems that are geared to expect different response...
[December 22, 2003, 10:20]
Sweet-16 Server Scores Points For IBM
News That operating system is the first from Microsoft to include non-uniform memory access, or NUMA, designs. These designs, which are widespread in higher-end servers with dozens of processors, vary the time needed to retrieve data from memory...
[March 28, 2003, 11:37]
Silicon Graphics To Announce Next-gen Linux Server
News The company uses operating systems adapted with a technology called non-uniform memory access, or NUMA, that lets a single operating system run across hundreds of processors. The newest Madison model includes 9MB of high-speed cache memory instead...
[October 27, 2004, 9:20]
Torvalds Launches Linux 2.6 Beta
News It's geared to work better on large multiprocessor systems, particularly those employing the non-uniform memory access (NUMA) designs where there are a range of delays possible when processors read or write data from memory.
[July 15, 2003, 8:54]
New Handheld Aims To Bridge Digital Divide
News Simputer also sports 32MB of DRAM, 24MB of permanent flash memory and a 320-by-240-pixel black-and-white screen. The idea was to create a low-cost, mass-access device that could bring local-language computing to the masses.
[May 25, 2001, 16:21]
Red Hat Linux 5.2 Beta Released
News The Numa (non-uniform memory access) interface has also been improved. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2 beta upgrades the core virtualisation hypervisor, Xen, to Xen 3.1.2, and allows support for up to 64 processors per system and up to 512GB of...
[March 13, 2008, 15:18]
Red Hat Publishes Fedora 9 Preview
News The Numa (non-uniform memory access) interface was also improved. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2 beta upgraded the core virtualisation hypervisor, Xen, to Xen 3.1.2, and allowed support for up to 64 processors per system and up to 512GB of...
[April 22, 2008, 14:40]
LinuxWorld: Sun Asks IBM To Preload Solaris
News Sequent is planning systems of up to 256 Intel Merced processors that will run Unix applications on some processors and Windows NT on others, allowing applications to share data via Sequent's NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) technology.
[August 11, 1999, 10:48]
Sequent Joins IBM's Empire
News Sequent is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM and IBM has rights to market Numa-Q 1000 and 2000 servers under its name. Numa technology will also be integrated into IBM's other server families. One of Sequent's largest markets is the UK where its...
[October 1, 1999, 15:17]
