add note about additional materials

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Tiziano Zito 2024-08-19 16:06:06 +02:00
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## Concluding remarks ## Concluding remarks
- how is all of this relevant for the users of a computing cluster? - how is all of this relevant for the users of a computing cluster?
- Never trust benchmarks! See for example [Producing Wrong Data Without Doing Anything Obviously Wrong!](https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/courses/322-2013-spring/mytkowicz-wrong-data.pdf) - Never trust benchmarks! See for example [Producing Wrong Data Without Doing Anything Obviously Wrong!](https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/courses/322-2013-spring/mytkowicz-wrong-data.pdf)
## Additional material if there's time left
- how does memory *allocation* to processes work at the OS level?
- virtual memory
- swap
- optimistic over-committing allocation policies
- the oom-killer watchdog