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Memory Deep Dive: NUMA and Data Locality

This is part 6 of the memory deep dive. This is a series of articles that I wrote to share what...
frankdenneman
7 min read

NUMA, Hyperthreading and NUMA.PreferHT

I received a lot of questions about Hyperthreading and NUMA in ESX 4.1 after writing the ESX 4.1 NUMA scheduling article....
frankdenneman
3 min read

ESX 4.1 NUMA Scheduling

VMware has made some changes to the CPU scheduler in ESX 4.1; one of the changes is the support for Wide...
frankdenneman
2 min read

Sizing VMs and NUMA nodes

Note: This article describes NUMA scheduling on ESX 3.5 and ESX 4.0 platform, vSphere 4.1 introduced wide NUMA nodes, information about...
frankdenneman
5 min read

My Sessions at VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas

Next week we are back in Las Vegas. Busy times ahead with meeting customers, old friends, making new friends, and presenting...
frankdenneman
1 min read

vSphere 8.0 Update 1 Enhancements for Accelerating Machine Learning Workloads

Recently vSphere 8 Update 1 was released, introducing excellent enhancements, ranging from VM-level power consumption metrics to Okta Identity Federation for...
frankdenneman
6 min read

Sapphire Rapids Memory Configuration

The 4th generation of the Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (codenamed Sapphire Rapids) was released early this year, and I’ve been trying...
frankdenneman
2 min read

vSphere 8 CPU Topology Device Assignment

There seems to be some misunderstanding about the new vSphere 8 CPU Topology Device Assignment feature, and I hope this article...
frankdenneman
3 min read

New vSphere 8 Features for Consistent ML Workload Performance

vSphere 8 is full of enhancements. Go to blogs.vmware.com or yellow-bricks.com for more extensive overviews of the vSphere 8 release. In this article, I want...
frankdenneman
2 min read

Machine Learning on VMware Platform – Part 3 – Training versus Inference

Machine Learning on VMware Cloud Platform – Part 1 covered the three distinct phases: concept, training, and deployment, part 2 explored the...
frankdenneman
7 min read