Processor-DRAM Growing Performance Gap (latency)

• From Jim Demmel -- remaining from David Culler

• This implies need for complex memory systems to hide memory latency

µProc

60%/yr.

DRAM

7%/yr.

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Processor-Memory

Performance Gap:(grows 50% / year)

Time

“Moore’s Law”

Performance

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