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[Beowulf] Which Xeon supports NUMA?

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Carsten Aulbert carsten.aulbert at aei.mpg.de
Tue Mar 18 12:35:13 PDT 2008


Hi,

given that many core Xeons (especially quad and/or many socket systems) 
have some memory speed issues. With NUMA the kernel seems to be able to 
optimize this somehow. However, I have two questions:

(1) Which EM64T Xeon supports NUMA? I've searched a bit, but I have not 
found a definitive answer so far. Is this visible from /proc/cpuinfo?

(2) More importantly, has someone measured (how?) if this improves 
performance?

Thanks for a brief answer

Carsten



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