The first two presentations covered the latest work of the Platform Competence Centre while the third one was given by the Database Competence Centre.

Julien Leduc presented the new Intel Nehalem NUMA architecture and its advantages before giving a quick reminder about the single and dual socket designs. He explained that the memory latency measurements show non uniform aspect of the memory. Julien gave a detailed explanation of the quad socket design and briefly presented some CFD benchmarks.

In his talk, Andrzej Nowak described the Nehalem-EX scalability tests and their results, stressing the excellent and unprecedented scalability obtained with the multi-threaded Geant4 prototype. He also highlighted specific SMT benefits.

Eric Grancher covered the Intel Nehalem-EX and the Oracle workload tests.

Next CERN openlab Minor Review Meeting will be hold on 16 March 2010.

Mélissa Le Jeune, CERN openlab