Customer Workloads

• Customer workloads come in two types:

  • workloads that can be parallelized – allowing "horizontal scalability"
  • workloads that cannot be easily parallelized – requiring large SMP or NUMA systems for larger capacities

• The goal of scalability for the first category should be linear scalability for 1 to 4-way systems.

• The goal for the second category is linear scalability for as large a system as possible.

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