Re: [LAU] Bye Bye 32 bit

From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Dec 29 2017 - 09:59:03 EET

Paul Davis wrote:
> ​AFAIK, NUMA is dead for everything except a few research systems.
>
> Parallel/multi-processor systems these days are all "symmetric" (all
> processors have symmetrical access to all memory).

While all processors have the ability to access all memory, the speed
of these accesses is different when there are multiple memory
controllers. So all multi-socket systems, and CPUs with multiple memory
controllers on one die (Threadripper, some Xeons) are NUMA.

Regards,
Clemens
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