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SYNTHESIS LECTURES ON COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE T...

Today  computer-system optimization  at both the hardware and software levels  must consider
the details of the memory system in its analysis  failing to do so yields systems that are
increasingly inefficient as those systems become more complex. This lecture seeks to introduce
the reader to the most important details of the memory system  it targets both computer
scientists and computer engineers in industry and in academia. Roughly speaking  computer
scientists are the users of the memory system and computer engineers are the designers of the
memory system. Both can benefit tremendously from a basic understanding of how the memory
system really works: the computer scientist will be better equipped to create algorithms that
perform well and the computer engineer will be better equipped to design systems that approach
the optimal  given the resource limitations. Currently  there is consensus among architecture
researchers that the memory system is the bottleneck  and this consensus has held for over a
decade. Somewhat inexplicably  most of the research in the field is still directed toward
improving the CPU to better tolerate a slow memory system  as opposed to addressing the
weaknesses of the memory system directly. This lecture should get the bulk of the computer
science and computer engineering population up the steep part of the learning curve. Not every
CS CE researcher developer needs to do work in the memory system  but  just as a carpenter can
do his job more efficiently if he knows a little of architecture  and an architect can do his
job more efficiently if he knows a little of carpentry  giving the CS CE worlds better
intuition about the memory system should help them build better systems  both software and
hardware. Table of Contents: Primers   It Must Be Modeled Accurately   ... and It Will Change
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