HELP! * YELLOW=global GREY=local Global HTML version of Foils prepared July 6 1996
Foil 40 Findings 1) and 2) -- Memory Hierarchy
From HPCC Futures Topic 2:A Possible PetaFlop Initiative Trip to China -- July 12-28,96. byGeoffrey Fox, Peter Kogge * See also color IMAGE
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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