Basic HTML version of Foils prepared August 4 1996
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. byGeoffrey C. Fox
1)Deep Memory Hierarchies present New Challenges to High performance Implementation of programs
Latency
Bandwidth
Capacity
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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