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Foil 53 PetaSoft Findings 1) and 2) -- Memory Hierarchy

From General NPAC Foils-B starting June97(PowerPoint) Beijing and Chang Sha China -- 28 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98. by Geoffrey 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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