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Why Computer Architecture Matters: Memory Access
July/August 2008 (vol. 10 no. 4)
pp. 71-75
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Cosmin Pancratov, Jacob M. Kurzer, Kelly A. Shaw, Matthew L. Trawick, "Why Computer Architecture Matters: Memory Access," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 71-75, July/August, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MCSE.2008.106,
author = {Cosmin Pancratov and Jacob M. Kurzer and Kelly A. Shaw and Matthew L. Trawick},
title = {Why Computer Architecture Matters: Memory Access},
journal ={Computing in Science and Engineering},
volume = {10},
number = {4},
issn = {1521-9615},
year = {2008},
pages = {71-75},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCSE.2008.106},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Cosmin Pancratov, University of Richmond
Jacob M. Kurzer, University of Richmond
Kelly A. Shaw, University of Richmond
Matthew L. Trawick, University of Richmond
This three-part series shows how applying knowledge about the underlying computer hardware to the code for a simple but computationally intensive algorithm can significantly improve performance. This second segment focuses on memory accesses.

1. J.L. Hennessy and D.A. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 3rd ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 2003.
2. A.R. Lebeck and D.A. Wood, "Cach Profiling and the SPEC Benchmarks: A Case Study," Computer, vol. 27, no. 10, 1994, pp. 15–26.

Index Terms:
computer architecture, cache, memory system, locality
Citation:
Cosmin Pancratov, Jacob M. Kurzer, Kelly A. Shaw, Matthew L. Trawick, "Why Computer Architecture Matters: Memory Access," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 71-75, July/Aug. 2008, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2008.106
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