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Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| Cache and memory in the many-core era One of the greatest challenges facing the designers of many-core processors is resource contention. The chart below visually lays out the problem of resource contention, but for most of us the idea is intuitively easy to grasp: more cores and more simultaneous threads means more contention for shared resources, specifically cache space and memory bandwidth. http://arstechnica.com/articles/paed...-many-core.ars
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