[erlang-questions] Future CPUs, NUMA & Erlang

[Felix Gallo]

Erlang should run more than fine on those, although you may need to mess
around with the NUMA topology (see the +sct flag to erl;
http://erlang.org/doc/man/erl.html).  Do share what you find if you take
the plunge!

A word of warning: many of the older Xeon Phi systems were designed for
datacenters, so were rackmount, took non-standard power and had
hell-banshee cooling fans that made sitting in the same room impossible.
Make sure to read the label and match it to your situation before placing
the request.

F.


On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Eric des Courtis <
eric.des.courtis@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I am considering fast forwarding into the future and getting a new
> workstation with a Knights Landing chip (a Intel® Xeon Phi™ Processor
> 7210F or similar CPU
> <http://ark.intel.com/products/94709/Intel-Xeon-Phi-Processor-7210F-16GB-1_30-GHz-64-core>)
> from the Intel Developer Access Program <http://dap.xeonphi.com/> for
> Erlang application development. This chip has 16GB on package with a data
> rate of over 400GB/s (100GB/s external memory) and has 64 cores (256
> threads). As you can imagine this uses a NUMA architecture but it fully
> backwards compatible with a regular Xeon.
>
> So here is my question how ready is the Erlang VM for this type of NUMA
> system? What work has been done with NUMA systems and Erlang and does it
> apply here? Am I right to jump in now or should I wait?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Eric
>
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