2nd Thematic CERN School of Computing

Session

Memory Programming

Jun 17, 2014, 10:00 AM

30. Memory Awareness - Lecture 1

Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

6/17/14, 10:00 AM

Processor speeds have outperformed the speed of memory which often becomes a bottleneck in modern servers. In this lecture we review the concept of virtual memory and the paging subsystem found in every modern operating system. We discuss the cache hierarchy and go on to look at a relatively new phenomenon in small-scale servers, namely “non-uniform memory access” (NUMA) and how to control it...

32. Memory programming - Exercise 1

Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

6/17/14, 5:30 PM