On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:35:29AM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > I have a major in CS and have never heard of "NUMA". Maybe you could > explain on which architectures such a feature exists?
Any architecture could conceivably have a NUMA memory hierarchy. The kernel support is called NUMA and it's help string is "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" If you think "non-uniform memory architecture" is clearer I can expand it, but if that makes sense to you then the term NUMA will too. I don't think an essay on computer architecture is suitable for a description (for example, libraries that do Fourier transformations don't explain what they are). -i
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