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Article #13275Re: Re: big memories, who needs >~1G
From: marvit
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1987 21:49
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1987 21:49
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<Regarding extremely large memories > A private study last of current and future users of supercomputers asked a number of interesting questions. Pertinent to this discussion -- what is the most important attribute for improving the supercomputing environment? The suprising answer? Not more horsepower nor better floating point/vector operations, nor lower power consumption. Bigger memory topped the list (with faster being far behind). Would anyone who works with these monsters (Eugene?) care to comment? Peter Marvit HP Labs marvit@hplabs.hp.com P.S. I know for LISP work, large stretches of memory reduces the need for time consuming incremental garbage collects, and sure speeds up the stop and copy GC! On my workstation 8MB real memory was painful with a 30+ MB virtual image. With 48MB real memory and a 40+ MB virtual image, I blink and the GC is done! Hooray for brute force and lots of real estate!
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!hplabs!hplabsc!marvit From: marvit@hplabsc.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Re: big memories, who needs >~1G Message-ID: <50400001@hplabsc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 21-Mar-87 16:49:00 EST Article-I.D.: hplabsc.50400001 Posted: Sat Mar 21 16:49:00 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Mar-87 05:40:25 EST References: <506@thumper.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories - Palo Alto, CA Lines: 22