Scaling Up Performance of Managed Applications on NUMA Systems

Explore a 19-minute conference talk from ISMM 2023 that delves into optimizing the performance of managed applications on Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) systems. Learn about a novel approach that complements existing research by focusing on application behavior during mutation time. Discover the results of a characterization study classifying Dacapo and Renaissance applications based on scalability-critical properties. Gain insights into a proposed lightweight mechanism for managed runtime environments that aims to enhance application scalability on NUMA systems in an application-agnostic manner. Examine experimental results showcasing relative performance improvements ranging from 0.66x to 3.29x compared to NUMA-agnostic execution. Understand the challenges of scaling managed applications on NUMA architectures and the importance of balancing architectural knowledge with managed runtime environment considerations.