Experience with building a commodity intel-based ccNUMA system

B. C. Brock; G. D. Carpenter; E. Chiprout; M. E. Dean; P. L. De Backer; E. N. Elnozahy; H. Franke; M. E. Giampapa; D. Glasco; J. L. Peterson; R. Rajamony; R. Ravindran; F. L. Rawson; R. L. Rockhold; J. Rubio

doi:10.1147/rd.452.0207

Experience with building a commodity intel-based ccNUMA system

B. C. Brock^*, G. D. Carpenter, E. Chiprout, M. E. Dean, P. L. De Backer, E. N. Elnozahy, H. Franke, M. E. Giampapa, D. Glasco, J. L. Peterson, R. Rajamony, R. Ravindran, F. L. Rawson, R. L. Rockhold, J. Rubio

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A 16 way cache-coherent nonuniform memory access (ccNUMA) Intel system consisting of four commodity four-processor Fujitsu Teamserver SMPs connected by a Synfinity cache-coherent switch was built. Results from a performance-evaluation study confirm the success of the combined hardware/software approach for performance tuning in computation-intensive workloads. The results also show that the poor local-memory bandwidth in the commodity Intel-based systems is often the main contributor to poor scalability and performance.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	207-227
Number of pages	21
Journal	IBM Journal of Research and Development
Volume	45
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1147/rd.452.0207
State	Published - Mar 2001
Externally published	Yes

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Brock, B. C., Carpenter, G. D., Chiprout, E., Dean, M. E., De Backer, P. L., Elnozahy, E. N., Franke, H., Giampapa, M. E., Glasco, D., Peterson, J. L., Rajamony, R., Ravindran, R., Rawson, F. L., Rockhold, R. L., & Rubio, J. (2001). Experience with building a commodity intel-based ccNUMA system. IBM Journal of Research and Development, 45(2), 207-227. https://doi.org/10.1147/rd.452.0207

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