Why Aren’t There Software-Defined NUMA Servers Everywhere?
For decades, we have been using software to chop up servers with virtualization hypervisors to run many small workloads on a relatively big piece of iron. …
For decades, we have been using software to chop up servers with virtualization hypervisors to run many small workloads on a relatively big piece of iron. …
It is hard to quantify the amount of effort in systems and application software development that has been done precisely because there is no easy, efficient, and cheap way to make a bunch of cheap commodity servers look like one wonking system with a big ole flat memory space that is as easy to program as a PC but which brings to bear all that compute, memory, and I/O of a cluster as a single system image. …
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