Numa is Non Unifrom Memory Architecture, The current NumaFlex design was first developed for MIPS/QED risc processors and brought over in first attempts for the P3 XEON and P4 platform.
The premise to to put high speed ram on both sides of the CPU for incomming and outgoing data to not share the same data path as well as having seperate high speed MtM and MtMtD crossbar controllers.
Turbo Linux is the version of Linux being used.
Basicly what you are seeing is the Itanium2 fitted onto a SGI NumaFlex mobo.
The Hammer will be fitted on the older Numa design with much slower MCH in the CPU and no MtM crossbar. It will "favor reads and delay writes" vs the traditional excute in order they are received.
I found a good link for you. <A HREF="http://accpc.com/accent/accentwhitepapers.htm" target="_new">memory crossbar on Intel platform</A>. Good link that is not behind secure area.
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