Locality-Optimized Resource Alignment for Superdome 2
Table Of Contents
- Locality-Optimized Resource Alignment for Superdome 2
- Executive summary
- Background and motivation of LORA
- LORA configuration rules
- LORA system administration
- Benefits
- Summary
- Glossary
- Technical details
- Configuring nPartitions for LORA
- Configuring vPars for LORA
- Advanced tuning
- For more information
- Call to action
For more information
For a discussion of SMP versus NUMA, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_multiprocessing
Detailed information about the capabilities and configuration of the Superdome 2 platform is
available at the following URLs:
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/pdfs/4AA1-7762ENW.pdf
Superdome 2 Partitioning Administrator Guide:
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13682_div/13682_div.html
http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02471028/c02471028.pdf
The LORA whitepaper for sx1000 and sx2000 systems
http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02070810/c02070810.pdf
The commands for LORA are described in the manual pages parconfig(1m) and loratune(5).
Call to action
Configuring virtual partitions for LORA on Superdome 2 takes a little bit of extra work, but it is well
worth the performance benefit. If you have any difficulty deploying LORA, please contact your HP
representative or visit:
http://www.hp.com/go/hpux
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