Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:02:32 +0200 (MEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | RE: Scaling noise |
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On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Brown, Len wrote: > > Latency is not bandwidth. > > Bingo. > > The way to address memory latency is by increasing bandwidth and > increasing parallelism to use it -- thus amortizing the latency. HT is > one of many ways to do this. If systems are to grow faster at a rate > better than memory speeds, then plan on more parallelism, not less.
More parallelism usually means more data to process, hence more bandwidth is needed => back to where we started.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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