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This is already here. It's called NUMA. You can access all memory from any CPU, but accessing memory that's connected to your CPU makes the access faster. NUMA-aware operating systems can limit your process to a CPU cluster and allocate memory from the same cluster, then replicate this on the other clusters, so they all run fast and only transfer data between clusters when they need to.


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