Wanna boost app speed? Think of the server, and tune 'er to NUMA

The HPC on Wall Street conference was hosted in the Big Apple on Monday, and while there was a lot–and we mean a lot–of talk about big data, one presentation stood out as being potentially much more useful in the long run than all of the big data bloviations. The talk was given by one of the founders of a financial services …

[bitmap animal]

Great fun

This looks like great fun, reminds me so much of what I was doing 20-30 years ago in the games industry. We were not only looking at algorithms for performance but eking every last cycle out of the hardware and support chips.

Time to get my IT CV dusted off perhaps.

[ChrisElvidge]

NUMA®

Does Dirk Pitt® know?

[MJI]

Beat me to it - have an upvote

I wonder if the Panama Canal has been repaired yet?

[cordwainer 1]

Ohhhhh....now I get it

I thought this had something to do with tuning into the NUMA NUMA guy. I should have known better. Wall Street has no sense of humor, or human feelings.

[tekheart]

Awesome code!

[DirkMyers]

Link to the Presentation

We've posted the presentation at: http://www.crankuptheamps.com/media/32521/2013-09-09_hpc_wall_street.pdf

Enjoy!

Dirk Myers

60East Technologies, Inc.

[MJI]

Re: Link to the Presentation

Are you sure it is not Pitt?