As part of my attempt to become organized in 2019, I found several draft blog entries that had never been completed and made public. This week I updated three of those posts — two really old ones (primarily of interest to computer architecture historians), and one from 2018: July 2012:… read more
memory latency
Memory Latency on the Intel Xeon Phi x200 “Knights Landing” processor
The Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) has a lot of modes of operation (selected at boot time), and the latency and bandwidth characteristics are slightly different for each mode. It is also important to remember that the latency can be different for each physical address, depending on the location of… read more
Invited Talk at SuperComputing 2016!
“Memory Bandwidth and System Balance in HPC Systems” If you are planning to attend the SuperComputing 2016 conference in Salt Lake City next month, be sure to reserve a spot on your calendar for my talk on Wednesday afternoon (4:15pm-5:00pm). I will be talking about the technology and market trends… read more