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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@calista.eckenfels.6bone.ka-ip.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Scaling noise
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:09:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1062590946.19059.18.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E19uQsT-0007mk-00@calista.inka.de>

On Mer, 2003-09-03 at 07:12, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> Thats why NUMA gets so popular.

NUMA doesn't help you much.

> Larry, dont forget, that Linux is growing in the University Labs, where
> those big NUMA and Multi-Node Clusters are most popular for Number
> Crunching.

multi node yes, numa not much and where numa-like systems are being used
they are being used for message passing not as a fake big pc. 

Numa is valuable because
- It makes some things go faster without having to rewrite them
- It lets you partition a large box into several effective small ones 
  cutting maintenance
- It lets you partition a large box into several effective small ones
  so you can avoid buying two software licenses for expensive toys

if you actually care enough about performance to write the code to do
the job then its value is rather questionable. There are exceptions as
with anything else.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-03 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 154+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-03  4:03 Scaling noise Larry McVoy
2003-09-03  4:12 ` Roland Dreier
2003-09-03  4:20   ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-03 15:12   ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-03  4:18 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-09-03  4:29   ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-03  4:33     ` CaT
2003-09-03  5:08       ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-03  5:44         ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2003-09-03  6:12         ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-09-03 12:09           ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-09-03 15:10             ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-03 16:01               ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-03 16:21                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-03 19:41                   ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-03 20:11                     ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04 20:36               ` Rik van Riel
2003-09-04 20:47                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04 21:30                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03  8:11         ` Giuliano Pochini
2003-09-03 14:25         ` Steven Cole
2003-09-03 12:47           ` Antonio Vargas
2003-09-03 15:31             ` Steven Cole
2003-09-04  1:50               ` Daniel Phillips
2003-09-04  1:52                 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04  4:42                   ` David S. Miller
2003-09-08 19:40                     ` bill davidsen
2003-09-04  2:18                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-04  2:19                 ` Steven Cole
2003-09-04  2:35                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-04  2:40                     ` Steven Cole
2003-09-04  3:20                       ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-04  3:07                   ` Daniel Phillips
2003-09-08 19:27                 ` bill davidsen
2003-09-08 19:12           ` bill davidsen
2003-09-03 16:37         ` Kurt Wall
2003-09-06 15:08         ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-08 13:38           ` Alan Cox
2003-09-09  6:11             ` Rob Landley
2003-09-09 16:07               ` Ricardo Bugalho
2003-09-10  5:14                 ` Rob Landley
2003-09-10  5:45                   ` David Mosberger
2003-09-10 10:10                   ` Ricardo Bugalho
2003-09-03  6:28     ` Anton Blanchard
2003-09-03  6:55       ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-03 15:23         ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-03 15:39           ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-03 15:50             ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04  0:49               ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04  2:21                 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-09-04  2:35                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04  2:46                   ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04  4:58                     ` David S. Miller
2003-09-10 15:47                       ` Lock EVERYTHING (for testing) [was: Re: Scaling noise] Timothy Miller
2003-09-04  4:49             ` Scaling noise David S. Miller
2003-09-08 19:50             ` bill davidsen
2003-09-08 23:39               ` Peter Chubb
2003-09-03 17:16           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 15:51         ` UP Regression (was) " Cliff White
2003-09-03 17:21           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 18:53             ` Cliff White
2003-09-04  0:54           ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-03  5:02 Samium Gromoff
2003-09-03  7:10 John Bradford
2003-09-03  7:38 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-03 11:14   ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-08 20:05 ` bill davidsen
2003-09-03  9:41 Brown, Len
2003-09-03 11:02 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-03 11:19 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-03 11:47   ` Matthias Andree
2003-09-03 18:00   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 18:05     ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-03 18:15       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 18:15         ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-03 18:26           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 18:32         ` Alan Cox
2003-09-03 19:46           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 20:13             ` Alan Cox
2003-09-03 20:31               ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 20:48             ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-03 21:21               ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 21:29                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-03 21:51                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 21:46                     ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04  0:07                       ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-04  1:06                       ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04  1:10                         ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04  1:32                         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-04  1:46                           ` David Lang
2003-09-04  1:51                             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-04  2:31                           ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04  2:40                             ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-04  2:50                               ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04  3:49                                 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-04  2:48                             ` Steven Cole
2003-09-04 17:05                             ` Daniel Phillips
2003-09-07 21:18                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-07 23:07                           ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-07 23:47                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-08  0:57                               ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-08  3:55                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-08  4:47                                 ` Stephen Satchell
2003-09-08  5:25                                   ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-08  8:32                                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-04  0:58                     ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04  1:12                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-04  2:49                         ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04  3:15                           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-04  3:38                           ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-05  1:34         ` Robert White
2003-09-03 19:11     ` Steven Cole
2003-09-03 19:36       ` William Lee Irwin III
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2003-09-03 15:33           ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-03 17:07 Brown, Len
2003-09-03 17:32 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-03 18:07   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 18:07     ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-03 18:25       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 23:47         ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-03 23:52           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 23:55           ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-03 18:28       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-03 18:31       ` Alan Cox
2003-09-03 20:11       ` Diego Calleja García
2003-09-03 18:11   ` Alan Cox
2003-09-03 19:56     ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2003-09-03 18:17   ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04  0:36     ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04  2:21       ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04  2:34         ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04  2:48           ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04  3:02             ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04  3:46               ` Gerrit Huizenga
2003-09-04  4:41               ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-10 15:02               ` Timothy Miller
2003-09-10 15:12                 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-28  1:51                   ` Paul Jakma
2003-09-28  3:13                     ` Steven Cole
2003-09-29  0:47                       ` Paul Jakma
2003-10-22  1:22                       ` Paul Jakma
2003-10-22  3:46                         ` Steven Cole
2003-09-04  3:16             ` David Lang
2003-09-04  3:45               ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-04  4:51               ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04  3:47           ` Davide Libenzi
2003-09-04  4:16             ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04  7:43               ` Davide Libenzi
2003-09-08  6:21 Brown, Len
2003-09-08  9:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-10 10:01 John Bradford
2003-09-10 11:35 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-10 13:46 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-10 15:14 John Bradford

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