https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-MPI-Library/A-Question-about-NUMA/m-p/947453#M2846 <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Hi Jim,</DIV> <DIV>The 4-way Intel servers are symmetric multiprocessors (SMP), not NUMA. If you were to combine multiple SMP nodes into a cluster,each node would require its own OS image.</DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>To combine multiple SMP servers into a NUMA configuration with a single system imagerequires special hardware. I believe the following Itanium-basedsystems areNUMA: SGI Altix, Groupe Bull NovaScale, HP Superdome, Unisys ES7000.</DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Henry</DIV><P>Message Edited by hagabb on <SPAN class="date_text">07-21-2004</SPAN> <SPAN class="time_text">03:06 PM</SPAN></P> Thu, 22 Jul 2004 05:02:21 GMT Henry_G_Intel 2004-07-22T05:02:21Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-MPI-Library/A-Question-about-NUMA/m-p/947451#M2844 <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Can anyone tell me which Intel products support NUMA.</DIV> <DIV>From my understanding NUMA means memory that is accessed by its own CPU (and can also be accessed by others) or shared memory that can be partitioned.</DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Regards</DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Ian Robinson</DIV> Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:15:56 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-MPI-Library/A-Question-about-NUMA/m-p/947451#M2844 Deleted_U_Intel 2004-07-21T21:15:56Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-MPI-Library/A-Question-about-NUMA/m-p/947452#M2845 <A href="http://lse.sourceforge.net/numa/faq/" target="_blank">http://lse.sourceforge.net/numa/faq/</A><BR /><BR /><A href="http://www.sgi.com/servers/altix/" target="_blank">http://www.sgi.com/servers/altix/</A><BR /><BR />You may need to clarify your question. As far as I know, the SGI Itanium systems are the major NUMA systems using Intel CPUs. Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:29:04 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-MPI-Library/A-Question-about-NUMA/m-p/947452#M2845 TimP 2004-07-21T23:29:04Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-MPI-Library/A-Question-about-NUMA/m-p/947453#M2846 <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Hi Jim,</DIV> <DIV>The 4-way Intel servers are symmetric multiprocessors (SMP), not NUMA. If you were to combine multiple SMP nodes into a cluster,each node would require its own OS image.</DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>To combine multiple SMP servers into a NUMA configuration with a single system imagerequires special hardware. I believe the following Itanium-basedsystems areNUMA: SGI Altix, Groupe Bull NovaScale, HP Superdome, Unisys ES7000.</DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Henry</DIV><P>Message Edited by hagabb on <SPAN class="date_text">07-21-2004</SPAN> <SPAN class="time_text">03:06 PM</SPAN></P> Thu, 22 Jul 2004 05:02:21 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-MPI-Library/A-Question-about-NUMA/m-p/947453#M2846 Henry_G_Intel 2004-07-22T05:02:21Z