Sometimes things that seem incredibly difficult aren’t really that bad…. I have been reviewing technology challenges for “exascale” computing and ran across an interesting comment in the 2008 “Technology Challenges in Achieving Exascale Systems” report. In Section 5.8 “Application Assessments”, Figure 5.16 on page 82 places “Ordered Summation” in the… read more
Computer Hardware
AMD Opteron Processor models, families, and revisions
Memory Latency Components
A reader of this site asked me if I had a detailed breakdown of the components of memory latency for a modern microprocessor-based system. Since the only real data I have is confidential/proprietary and obsolete, I decided to try to build up a latency equation from memory…. Preliminary Comments: It… read more