On 02/08/17 13:37, Evan Burness wrote:
> Thanks for the history lessons, Chris! Very interesting indeed.
My pleasure, to add to the history here's a paper from the APAC'05
conference 12 years ago that details how the then APAC (now NCI) set up
their SGI Altix cluster, including a discussion on cp
Thanks for the history lessons, Chris! Very interesting indeed.
Would be interesting to take it a step further and measure what the impacts
(good, bad, or otherwise) of picking a specific core on a given CPU uArch
layout for the OS.
Cheers,
Evan
On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 10:32 PM, Christopher Sam
On 26/07/17 00:31, Evan Burness wrote:
> If I recall correctly, IBM did just what you're describing with the
> BlueGene CPUs. I believe those were 18-core parts, with 2 of the cores
> being reserved to run the OS and as a buffer against jitter. That left a
> nice, neat power-of-2 amount of cores f
