Access Order and Effective Bandwidth for Streams on a Direct Rambus Memory

Processor speeds are increasing rapidly, and memory speeds are not keeping up. Streaming computations (such as multi-media or scientific applications) are among those whose performance is most limited by the memory bottleneck. Rambus hopes to bridge the processor/memory performance gap with a recently introduced

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: HPCA
• Authors: Sung I. Hong, Sally A. McKee, Maximo H. Salinas, Robert H. Klenke, James H. Aylor, William A. Wulf
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, HPCA 1999, Memory Speeds, Processor Speeds, Processor/memory Performance Gap