NUMA Courses and Certifications

OpenInfra Foundation

NUMA Aware Placement and How It Can Help with Your OOMs

Discover how NUMA-aware placement fixes critical out-of-memory errors in OpenStack by properly tracking resource usage across NUMA cells instead of relying on flawed local tracking.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Linux Plumbers Conference

Malloc for Everyone and Beyond NUMA

Exploring memory management in heterogeneous computing, addressing challenges beyond NUMA, and proposing a unified API for diverse memory types in modern systems.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Linux Plumbers Conference

A NUMA Interface for Futex2 BoF

Exploring NUMA-aware interface for futex2 to improve scalability and reduce latency in multi-node systems. Discusses proposed design and seeks feedback on enhancing futex performance.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Messing Up Your NUMA Topology with CXL - Implications for Advanced Interconnects

Explore CXL interconnect technology, its impact on NUMA topologies, and implications for memory placement in advanced computing systems. Witness a demo using emulated CXL.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Never Underestimate Memory Architecture - NUMA and SMT Performance Impact in Cloud Environments

Discover how NUMA and Hyperthreading impact cloud application performance, explore Kubernetes integration, and learn to measure their effects using Prometheus metrics and Linux tools.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Linux Plumbers Conference

Mempolicy is Dead, Long Live Memory Policy! - NUMA Memory Allocation and Isolation Design

Explore a new Linux memory policy design that reverses default NUMA allocation behavior, requiring opt-in for tiered memory access to improve isolation controls.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Linux Plumbers Conference

DAMON-Based Pages Migration for CPU, GPU, and XPU Attached and Unattached NUMA Nodes

Explore DAMON's memory page migration solutions for complex NUMA topologies with CPU, GPU, and accelerator nodes in modern systems.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10

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Master Hyper-V virtualization on Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10. Create, manage, and secure virtual machines, configure networking, and automate tasks with PowerShell for efficient resource utilization.

• Udemy
• 4 hours 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Birla Institute Of Technology And Science–Pilani (BITS–Pilani)

Multicore and GPGPU Programming

Master parallel programming with multicore CPUs and GPUs, covering CUDA, Pthreads, MPI, and OpenMP to build high-performance, multi-threaded applications for modern computing architectures.

• Coursera
• 3 days 3 hours 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

USENIX

Scalable and Effective Page-table and TLB Management on NUMA Systems

Innovative approach to page-table management in NUMA systems, enhancing performance through on-demand replication and reduced TLB shootdowns, benefiting highly threaded applications.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

ACM SIGPLAN

NUMAlloc: A Faster NUMA Memory Allocator

Explore a novel memory allocator designed for NUMA architecture, offering improved performance and scalability for multithreaded applications through innovative memory management techniques.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

ACM SIGPLAN

Scaling Up Performance of Managed Applications on NUMA Systems

Explore a novel lightweight mechanism for optimizing managed application scalability on NUMA systems. Learn about characterization studies, application-agnostic approaches, and performance improvements in managed runtime environments.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Red Hat

Performance Tuning Red Hat Enterprise Linux Platform for Databases

Optimize Red Hat Enterprise Linux for database performance through OS tuning, Linux containers, and performance tools. Learn NUMA, memory, network, and virtualization tuning techniques.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

This is The Way - A Crash Course on CPU Management Intricacies in Kubernetes

Explore CPU management in Kubernetes, covering policies, NUMA zones, topology management, and community solutions for optimizing cluster performance and security.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Cutting Edge Toolchain - Latest Features in GCC and GLIBC

Explore latest features in GCC 8/9 and Glibc 2.29, including performance optimizations, security enhancements, and CPU architecture advancements for Linux developers.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video