This chapter covers several topics that we briefly described earlier in the book but did not expand upon as it would have distracted from the focus points. The in-depth details on these topics are here for your reference.
Nonuniform Memory Access (NUMA)
NUMA is a computer memory design used in multiprocessing where the memory access time depends on the memory location relative to the processor. NUMA is used in a symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) system. An SMP system is a “tightly coupled and share everything” system in which multiple processors working under a single operating system ...
