Channel 9 - Entries tagged with NUMA Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Entries tagged with NUMA http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/numa Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/numa en Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:33:22 GMT Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:33:22 GMT Rev9 7 1 25 The C++ Concurrency Runtime - Asynchronous Agents Library Asynchronous Agents Library (or just Agents Library) provides a programming model that enables you to increase the robustness of concurrency-enabled application development. The Agents Library is a C++ template library that promotes an actor-based programming model and in-process message passing for fine-grained dataflow and pipelining tasks. The Agents Library builds upon the scheduling and resource management components of the Concurrency Runtime.

The agent class itself is intended for course grained parallelism/components that handle larger computationally intensive tasks or collections of smaller tasks. Fundamentally, agents are tasks that have an observable lifecycle and communicate with other agents by using message passing.  Agents are NOT intended to be used for fine-grained parallelism; for that, the patterns and constructs in the Parallel Patterns Library are better suited.

You'll want to subscribe to the Native Concurrency blog, find more resource and download example code from Code Gallery. 


]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/The-C-Concurrency-Runtime-Asynchronous-Agents-Library The Asynchronous Agents Library (or just Agents Library) provides a programming model that enables you to increase the robustness of concurrency-enabled application development. The Agents Library is a C++ template library that promotes an actor-based programming model and in-process message passing for fine-grained dataflow and pipelining tasks. The Agents Library builds upon the scheduling and resource management components of the Concurrency Runtime. The agent class itself is intended for course grained parallelism/components that handle larger computationally intensive tasks or collections of smaller tasks. Fundamentally, agents are tasks that have an observable lifecycle and communicate with other agents by using message passing.  Agents are NOT intended to be used for fine-grained parallelism; for that, the patterns and constructs in the Parallel Patterns Library are better suited. You'll want to subscribe to the Native Concurrency blog, find more resource and download example code from Code Gallery.  629 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/The-C-Concurrency-Runtime-Asynchronous-Agents-Library Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:55:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/The-C-Concurrency-Runtime-Asynchronous-Agents-Library Phil Pennington Phil Pennington 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/The-C-Concurrency-Runtime-Asynchronous-Agents-Library/RSS C++ concrt Concurrency Runtime NUMA Parallel Computing PPL R2 R2PERF Server 2008 R2 UMS Visual Studio 2010 w2k8r2 Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 The C++ Concurrency Runtime - Parallel Patterns Library The C++ Concurrency Runtime is new with Visual Studio 2010 and currently in beta. The runtime encapsulates and extends many new operating system features including NUMA resource locality and User-Mode-Scheduling. 

The Parallel Patterns Library (PPL) provides an imperative programming model that promotes scalability and ease-of-use for developing concurrent applications.  The PPL raises the level of abstraction between your application code and the underlying thread/task scheduling mechanisms by providing generic, type-safe algorithms and containers that act on data in parallel.  The PPL also enables you to develop applications that scale by providing alternatives to shared state.

The PPL provides the following features:

  • Task Parallelism: a mechanism to execute several work items (tasks) in parallel.

  • Parallel algorithms: generic algorithms that act on collections of data in parallel.

  • Parallel containers and objects: generic container types that provide safe concurrent access to their elements.

By using PPL, you can introduce fine-grained parallelism without even having to manage a scheduler.   You would use the Asynchronous Agents Library instead to express coarse-grained parallelism.

You'll want to subscribe to the Native Concurrency blog, find more resource and download example code from Code Gallery. 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/concrtppl The C++ Concurrency Runtime is new with Visual Studio 2010 and currently in beta. The runtime encapsulates and extends many new operating system features including NUMA resource locality and User-Mode-Scheduling.  The Parallel Patterns Library (PPL) provides an imperative programming model that promotes scalability and ease-of-use for developing concurrent applications.  The PPL raises the level of abstraction between your application code and the underlying thread/task scheduling mechanisms by providing generic, type-safe algorithms and containers that act on data in parallel.  The PPL also enables you to develop applications that scale by providing alternatives to shared state. The PPL provides the following features: Task Parallelism: a mechanism to execute several work items (tasks) in parallel. Parallel algorithms: generic algorithms that act on collections of data in parallel. Parallel containers and objects: generic container types that provide safe concurrent access to their elements. By using PPL, you can introduce fine-grained parallelism without even having to manage a scheduler.   You would use the Asynchronous Agents Library instead to express coarse-grained parallelism. You'll want to subscribe to the Native Concurrency blog, find more resource and download example code from Code Gallery.  799 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/concrtppl Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:55:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/concrtppl Phil Pennington Phil Pennington 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/concrtppl/RSS C++ concrt Concurrency Runtime NUMA Parallel Computing PPL R2 R2PERF Server 2008 R2 UMS w2k8r2 Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 New NUMA Support with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, PM Talk

Windows Server 2008 R2 represents the latest evolution of the Windows Server operating system and corresponding support for high-end hardware systems with large numbers of microprocessors.  Windows Server 2008 R2 is the first release of Windows to scale beyond 64 Logical Processors (LP) on a single computer.

R2 features enhanced support of Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) computer architectures along with new User-Mode Thread Scheduling (UMS) technology.  UMS enables custom thread-level scheduling within your own application.  For certain categories of computing scenarios, this avoids the overhead of thread kernel transitions and context switching.

Why is this important for Application Developers?  New commodity computer systems will soon appear that leverage many-core architectures.  A system with 4 CPU sockets, 8 processor-cores per socket and with Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) enabled per core, will readily achieve 64 Logical Processors.  Application Developers will want to ensure their applications scale well on this new generation of high-performance commodity systems.

This presentation illustrates enhancements made to the Windows API to support more than 64 processors and enhanced NUMA support.  Find detailed NUMA API usage scenarios at Code Gallery.

See related sessions on NUMA, UMS, and Concurrency.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/New-NUMA-Support-with-Windows-7-and-Windows-Server-2008-R2-PM-Talk Windows Server 2008 R2 represents the latest evolution of the Windows Server operating system and corresponding support for high-end hardware systems with large numbers of microprocessors.  Windows Server 2008 R2 is the first release of Windows to scale beyond 64 Logical Processors (LP) on a single computer. R2 features enhanced support of Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) computer architectures along with new User-Mode Thread Scheduling (UMS) technology.  UMS enables custom thread-level scheduling within your own application.  For certain categories of computing scenarios, this avoids the overhead of thread kernel transitions and context switching. Why is this important for Application Developers?  New commodity computer systems will soon appear that leverage many-core architectures.  A system with 4 CPU sockets, 8 processor-cores per socket and with Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) enabled per core, will readily achieve 64 Logical Processors.  Application Developers will want to ensure their applications scale well on this new generation of high-performance commodity systems. This presentation illustrates enhancements made to the Windows API to support more than 64 processors and enhanced NUMA support.  Find detailed NUMA API usage scenarios at Code Gallery. See related sessions on NUMA, UMS, and Concurrency. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/New-NUMA-Support-with-Windows-7-and-Windows-Server-2008-R2-PM-Talk Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:59:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/New-NUMA-Support-with-Windows-7-and-Windows-Server-2008-R2-PM-Talk Phil Pennington Phil Pennington 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/New-NUMA-Support-with-Windows-7-and-Windows-Server-2008-R2-PM-Talk/RSS NUMA R2 R2PERF w2k8r2 win7 Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 New NUMA Support with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, Demo3 http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/64plusLP. See the related sessions on Channel9 via http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/w2k8r2.
]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/New-NUMA-Support-with-Windows-Server-2008-R2-and-Windows-7-Demo3 The 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 support more than 64 Logical Processors (LP) on a single computer using Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) hardware architectures. New commodity systems are now appearing that leverage NUMA chipset architectures. Many high-end server-class solutions may need to be architected with NUMA awareness in order to achieve linear performance scaling on such systems. Parallel Computing and High Performance Computing solution developers may also find NUMA awareness essential for performance scalability. This is a multi-part series illustrating concepts documented in detail at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/64plusLP. See the related sessions on Channel9 via http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/w2k8r2. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/New-NUMA-Support-with-Windows-Server-2008-R2-and-Windows-7-Demo3 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/New-NUMA-Support-with-Windows-Server-2008-R2-and-Windows-7-Demo3 Phil Pennington Phil Pennington 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/New-NUMA-Support-with-Windows-Server-2008-R2-and-Windows-7-Demo3/RSS NUMA Server 2008 R2 w2k8r2 Windows 7 Windows Server New NUMA Support with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, Demo2 http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/64plusLP. See the related sessions on Channel9 via http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/w2k8r2. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/New-NUMA-Support-with-Windows-Server-2008-R2-and-Windows-7-Demo2 The 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 support more than 64 Logical Processors (LP) on a single computer using Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) hardware architectures. New commodity systems are now appearing that leverage NUMA chipset architectures. Many high-end server-class solutions may need to be architected with NUMA awareness in order to achieve linear performance scaling on such systems. Parallel Computing and High Performance Computing solution developers may also find NUMA awareness essential for performance scalability. This is a multi-part series illustrating concepts documented in detail at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/64plusLP. See the related sessions on Channel9 via http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/w2k8r2. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/New-NUMA-Support-with-Windows-Server-2008-R2-and-Windows-7-Demo2 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/New-NUMA-Support-with-Windows-Server-2008-R2-and-Windows-7-Demo2 Phil Pennington Phil Pennington 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/New-NUMA-Support-with-Windows-Server-2008-R2-and-Windows-7-Demo2/RSS NUMA Server 2008 R2 w2k8r2 Windows 7 Windows Server New NUMA Support with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, Demo1 Windows Server 2008 R2 represents the latest evolution of the Windows Server operating system and corresponding support for high-end hardware systems with large numbers of microprocessors.  Windows Server 2008 R2 is the first release of Windows to scale beyond 64 Logical Processors (LP) on a single computer.

This presentation illustrates enhancements made to the Windows API to support more than 64 processors and enhanced NUMA support.  Find detailed NUMA API usage scenarios at Code Gallery.

See related sessions on NUMA.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/New-NUMA-Support-with-Windows-Server-2008-R2-and-Windows-7-Demo1 Windows Server 2008 R2 represents the latest evolution of the Windows Server operating system and corresponding support for high-end hardware systems with large numbers of microprocessors.  Windows Server 2008 R2 is the first release of Windows to scale beyond 64 Logical Processors (LP) on a single computer. This presentation illustrates enhancements made to the Windows API to support more than 64 processors and enhanced NUMA support.  Find detailed NUMA API usage scenarios at Code Gallery. See related sessions on NUMA. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/New-NUMA-Support-with-Windows-Server-2008-R2-and-Windows-7-Demo1 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/New-NUMA-Support-with-Windows-Server-2008-R2-and-Windows-7-Demo1 Phil Pennington Phil Pennington 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/New-NUMA-Support-with-Windows-Server-2008-R2-and-Windows-7-Demo1/RSS NUMA Server 2008 R2 w2k8r2 Windows 7 Windows Server New NUMA Support with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7

Windows Server 2008 R2 represents the latest evolution of the Windows Server operating system and corresponding support for high-end hardware systems with large numbers of microprocessors.  Windows Server 2008 R2 is the first release of Windows to scale beyond 64 Logical Processors (LP) on a single computer.

R2 features enhanced support of Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) computer architectures along with new User-Mode Thread Scheduling (UMS) technology.  UMS enables custom thread-level scheduling within your own application.  For certain categories of computing scenarios, this avoids the overhead of thread kernel transitions and context switching.

Why is this important for Application Developers?  New commodity computer systems will soon appear that leverage many-core architectures.  A system with 4 CPU sockets, 8 processor-cores per socket and with Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) enabled per core, will readily achieve 64 Logical Processors.  Application Developers will want to ensure their applications scale well on this new generation of high-performance commodity systems.

This presentation illustrates enhancements made to the Windows API to support more than 64 processors and enhanced NUMA support.  Find detailed NUMA API usage scenarios at Code Gallery.

See related sessions on NUMA, UMS, and Concurrency.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/New-NUMA-Support-with-Windows-Server-2008-R2-and-Windows-7 Windows Server 2008 R2 represents the latest evolution of the Windows Server operating system and corresponding support for high-end hardware systems with large numbers of microprocessors.  Windows Server 2008 R2 is the first release of Windows to scale beyond 64 Logical Processors (LP) on a single computer. R2 features enhanced support of Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) computer architectures along with new User-Mode Thread Scheduling (UMS) technology.  UMS enables custom thread-level scheduling within your own application.  For certain categories of computing scenarios, this avoids the overhead of thread kernel transitions and context switching. Why is this important for Application Developers?  New commodity computer systems will soon appear that leverage many-core architectures.  A system with 4 CPU sockets, 8 processor-cores per socket and with Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) enabled per core, will readily achieve 64 Logical Processors.  Application Developers will want to ensure their applications scale well on this new generation of high-performance commodity systems. This presentation illustrates enhancements made to the Windows API to support more than 64 processors and enhanced NUMA support.  Find detailed NUMA API usage scenarios at Code Gallery. See related sessions on NUMA, UMS, and Concurrency. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/New-NUMA-Support-with-Windows-Server-2008-R2-and-Windows-7 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/New-NUMA-Support-with-Windows-Server-2008-R2-and-Windows-7 Phil Pennington Phil Pennington 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/philpenn/New-NUMA-Support-with-Windows-Server-2008-R2-and-Windows-7/RSS Concurrency Runtime NUMA R2 R2PERF Server 2008 R2 w2k8r2 Windows 7 Windows Server