Basic HTML version of Foils prepared August 23 1996
Foil 21 PetaSoft Findings 1) and 2) -- Memory Hierarchy
From Software Strategy for JNAC (PetaFlops) Initiative JNAC (PetaFlops) Presentation -- August 28,1996. 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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