NUMA

markw at mohawksoft.com markw at mohawksoft.com
Thu Mar 10 14:15:10 EST 2005


> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
>
>> Non-Uniform Memory Architecture is a way of clustering multiple CPUs,
>> closer than something like a beowulf, but not quite SMP either.
>>
[snip]
>> I did find at least a bit of useful information here:
> http://lse.sourceforge.net/numa/faq/
>
" What does NUMA stand for?
NUMA stands for Non-Uniform Memory Access."

Interesting, I remember when RAID was "Redundant Array of Inexpensive
Disks" now it is "Redundant Array of Independent Disks." I wonder of they
modified the acronym or I'm just remembering incorrectly?



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