What are some alternatives to NUMA?
Also, splitting memory up and (possibly arbitrarily) assigning it to groups of CPUs can give some performance benefits similar to actual NUMA. A setup like this would be like a regular NUMA machine where the line between local and remote memory is blurred, since all the memory is actually on the same bus. The PowerPC Regatta system is an example of this. You can achieve some NUMA-like performance by using clusters as well. A cluster is very similar to a NUMA machine, where each individual machine in the cluster becomes a node in our virtual NUMA machine. The only real difference is the nodal latency. In a clustered environment, the latency and bandwidth on the internodal links are likely to be much worse.
