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Foil 88 PetaSoft Findings 1) and 2) -- Memory Hierarchy

From Variety of Foils Used Starting January 97 General -- 1997. 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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