On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On the topic of "mammoth rams", circa 2003 SGI came out with a system,
> which in full config had 384GB RAM.
>

When you have such huge  RAMS, will the cache transfers be efficient since a
single miss will mean searching the entire RAM again... Al this while, We
had P*(Speed of cache retrieval) + (1-p)*(Speed of RAM retrieval). When hit
rate -> 1, the entire thing speeds up. But here, the time to locate on the
RAM might be significant too right?
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