My interest in NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) has picked up quite a bit as of late. This technology has a huge potential for application in large scale Web hosting and Internet solutions. In brief, NUMA is a technology that was conceived to get around bus contention in general. What this means is that, with NUMA, [...]
The major flaw of the cloud, and ironically its touted strength, is its inability to scale up. For example, the promise of cloud providers is that you can start out with a 512MB nodes and scale up however much you want! The sky is the limit they say! Oh, but no more than 15GB of [...]
