RE: Scaling noise

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

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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