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Subject: Re: Another memory latency test

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 14:55:54 07/17/03

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On July 17, 2003 at 15:23:19, Keith Evans wrote:

>It will be interesting to find out the discrepancy in the reported latencies.
>
>I remember years ago that DRAM had a tRC of 110 ns, so in theory you could do an
>endless stream of random reads and not see a latency worse than 110 ns at the
>hardware level. (Excluding the occasional increase due to refresh.)

Are you talking about cray supercomputers or something?

>Of course you could have seen twice that do to heavy loading of DRAM signals
>(which meant that you couldn't meet the paper spec), inefficiencies in the
>processor or chipset,...
>
>Keith



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