[Beowulf] Definition of HPC

[Mark Hahn]

>> understood, but how did you decide that was actually a good thing?
>>
> Mark,
>
> Because it stopped the random out of memory conditions that we were having.

aha, so basically "rebooting windows resolves my performance problems" ;)

>> I'm guessing this may have been a much bigger deal on strongly NUMA
>> machines of a certain era (high-memory ia64 SGI, older kernels).

and the situation you're referring to was actually on Altix, right?
(therefore not necessarily a good idea with current machines and kernels.)