RE: Scaling noise

From: Brown, Len
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 04:43:46 EST


> 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.

-Len
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