Chapter 3

Programming MCDRAM and Cluster modes

Abstract

Essentials of programming to utilize the high bandwidth memory known as the MCDRAM and to utilize cluster modes. The memkind library and the use of numactl are discussed.

Keywords

High-bandwidth memory; AutoHBW; MCDRAM; Cache mode; Flat mode; Hybrid mode; Implicit memory usage; Explicit memory usage; HBW_malloc; Memory allocation; Fortran language annotation; Called FASTMEM; BIOS; Memory-side cache; DIMM; DDR; DDR4; NUMA; UMA; numactl; memkind; MEMKIND_HBW; autohbw; BIOS; syscfg; Intel® system configuration utility; Platform memory topology tables; ACPI specification; MEMKIND_HBW_NODES; numa_maps

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