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High performance scientific computers require high bandwidth memory systems. The size of data sets for large scientific codes implies the need for a memory system which contains independent, interleaved banks. We compare the performance of two different control structures for an interleaved memory: bank buffering and address stream lookahead. We show that a centralized lookahead memory controller provides equivalent memory performance to a bank buffering system while simplifying implementation.
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Bird, P.L., Topham, N.P., Manoharan, S. (1992). A comparison of two memory models for high performance computers. In: Bougé, L., Cosnard, M., Robert, Y., Trystram, D. (eds) Parallel Processing: CONPAR 92—VAPP V. VAPP CONPAR 1992 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 634. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55895-0_436
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