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Foil 32 Findings 1) and 2) -- Memory Hierarchy

From Summary of Working Groups at PAWS and PetaSoft Meetings PAWS(Mandalay Beach) and PetSoft(Bodega Bay) -- April 23 and June 17-19,96. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 1)Deep Memory Hierarchies present New Challenges to High performance Implementation of programs
  • Latency
  • Bandwidth
  • Capacity
2 2)There are two dimensions of memory hierarchy management
  • Geometric or Global Structure
  • Local (cache) hierachies seen from thread or processor centric view
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