October 2014
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
8h 30m
English
CHAPTER 6
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Addressing Application Bottlenecks: Shared Memory
The previous chapters talked about the potential bottlenecks in your application and the system it runs on. In this chapter, we will have a close look at how the application code performs on the level of an individual cluster node. It is a fair assumption that there will also be bottlenecks on this level. Removing these bottlenecks will usually translate directly to increased performance, in addition to the optimizations discussed in the previous chapters.
In line with our top-down strategy, we will investigate how to improve your application code on the threading level. On this level, ...
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