Use cases
Where locality is the difference.
numaperf pays off in latency-critical workloads on multi-socket hardware. Three places cross-node access quietly costs you a long tail — and how explicit placement removes it.
HFT
Low-latency trading and market data
Tail latency, not median, is the SLO. numaperf removes NUMA variance from the hot path with strict pinning and placement.
DataDatabase and storage engines
Buffer pools and query workers scattered across nodes bleed bandwidth. Pin the pools, schedule queries where their data lives.
NetworkPacket processing and real-time media
Every cross-node copy is latency you can’t get back. Place packet buffers on the NIC-local node and process without hopping sockets.