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Subject: Re: How to enable Numa support within Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition

Author: David B

Date: 18:18:28 03/04/04

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On March 04, 2004 at 13:28:53, Keith Evans wrote:

>On March 04, 2004 at 12:42:24, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On March 04, 2004 at 09:44:00, Bryan Hofmann wrote:
>>
>>>On March 03, 2004 at 21:29:39, David B wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have a Tyan 2885 currently not sure if its a bios setting or just an OS
>>>>setting within Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition though its supposed to support
>>>>numa which to the life of me I can not get it to do.   Each processor currently
>>>>is running 1gig of ram with Opteron 244's
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>I recommend reading the following;
>>>
>>>http://www.tyan.com/support/html/f_s2885.html
>>
>>David,
>>
>>Except for DIEP which has NUMA versions, and SOS which is multiprocessing too,
>>but heavily relying upon shared memory, which program do you plan to run that
>>profits from a NUMA machine setup?
>>
>>Nevertheless in your manual from your tyan mainboard you can find how to get
>>numa to work. If i remember well the best thing to do is just fill up all memory
>>banks with memory. That's the best way to do it always.
>
>I understand that Crafty supports NUMA under Windows.


As far as I've seen from bench marking on a few sites quite a few applications
actually do alot better with NUMA enabled.   Which applications it was a large
amount of different programs.  Games even did some what better.



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