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The paper describes a new approach to the use of the Hyper-Threading Technology for improving cluster performance. The Hyper-Threading Technology is enabled in 90% of all sold server’s CPUs today and in the most cases it improves the overall application performance. The obvious question would be: Does Hyper-Threading Technology improves cluster performance and if so, how it works? In order to get the fully optimized Hyper-Threading Technology enabled cluster it is necessary to focus on 3 elements which can take advantage of Hyper-Threading Technology and moreover they all need to be tuned for this aim. These elements are: operating system, compiler and application.
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Wackowski, K., Gepner, P. (2004). Hyper-Threading Technology Speeds Clusters. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Dongarra, J., Paprzycki, M., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. PPAM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3019. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24669-5_3
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