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

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4297 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 338-352

  Antony, Joseph ^a   Janes, Pete P ^a   Rendell, Alistair P ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed 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; SIMPLE MODEL; SOLARIS; ULTRASPARC;

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 65549134101     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11945918_35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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