[Beowulf] Definition of HPC

[Hearns, John]

> All modern compute nodes are essentially NUMA machines (I am assuming all are dual or more socket machines).
> If caches are a large fraction of memory then you have increased memory requests from the foreign node.

I correct myself here. I am being too manufacturer specific.
numactl --hardware is indeed my friend and maybe stops me placing foot squarely in mouth where Intel is concerned.

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