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The Memory System - You Can't Avoid It, You Can't Ignore It, You Can't Fake It (Paperback)
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The Memory System - You Can't Avoid It, You Can't Ignore It, You Can't Fake It (Paperback)
Series: Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture
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Today, computer-system optimization, at both the hardware and
software levels, must consider the details of the memory system in
its analysis; failing to do so yields systems that are increasingly
inefficient as those systems become more complex. This lecture
seeks to introduce the reader to the most important details of the
memory system; it targets both computer scientists and computer
engineers in industry and in academia. Roughly speaking, computer
scientists are the users of the memory system and computer
engineers are the designers of the memory system. Both can benefit
tremendously from a basic understanding of how the memory system
really works: the computer scientist will be better equipped to
create algorithms that perform well and the computer engineer will
be better equipped to design systems that approach the optimal,
given the resource limitations. Currently, there is consensus among
architecture researchers that the memory system is "the
bottleneck," and this consensus has held for over a decade.
Somewhat inexplicably, most of the research in the field is still
directed toward improving the CPU to better tolerate a slow memory
system, as opposed to addressing the weaknesses of the memory
system directly. This lecture should get the bulk of the computer
science and computer engineering population up the steep part of
the learning curve. Not every CS/CE researcher/developer needs to
do work in the memory system, but, just as a carpenter can do his
job more efficiently if he knows a little of architecture, and an
architect can do his job more efficiently if he knows a little of
carpentry, giving the CS/CE worlds better intuition about the
memory system should help them build better systems, both software
and hardware. Table of Contents: Primers / It Must Be Modeled
Accurately / ...\ and It Will Change Soon
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