
It is a mature architecture that is designed to extract greater performance potential from multiprocessor systems. As developers deploy more demanding workloads on these multiprocessor systems, common performance questions arise: Where should threads or processes be scheduled (thread or process placement)? Where should memory be allocated (memory placement)? The underlying operating system (OS), tuned for AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Opteron multiprocessor ccNUMA systems, makes these performance decisi