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? _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
