Fundamental limitations on the use of prefetching and stream buffers for scientific applications

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 554-560

  Pressel, Daniel M ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

High performance computing; Prefetching; Stream buffers; Supercomputer

Indexed keywords

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

FUNDAMENTAL LIMITATIONS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MEMORY HIERARCHY; MEMORY SYSTEMS; PREFETCHING; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; STREAM BUFFERS; VECTOR PROCESSORS;

CACHE MEMORY;

EID: 2342587969     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/372202.372460     Document Type: Conference Paper

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