netloc

We announced the Network locality project at SC’13, and generated a LOT of interest (far more than I even anticipated!).  As a refresher, here’s a link to a a blog entry we wrote about Netloc back in November. There is still much work to be done; we’re actively continuing work in multiple areas:

Today’s guest post comes from Dr. Joshua Hursey, an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. For a number of years, developers tuning High Performance Computing (HPC) applications and libraries have been harnessing server topology information to significantly optimize performance on servers with increasingly complex memory hierarchies and […]