| L. I. Kontothanassis and M. L. Scott. Memory Models, chapter 24, pages 699--722. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1996. |
....the programmability and the scalability of the computer. In section 3 we take a look a network with emphasis on cost and scalability. In section 4 we look to the future and make a few predictions on trends. 2 THE MEMORY HIERARCHY Physical and economical laws have imposed a hierarchy of memory. KS96] HP90] The closer to the CPU the memory modules reside, the more expensive it is and the less space it occupy. Thus at the top of the hierarchy we find small and fast memory modules, called caches. The fastest caches are on the same chip as the CPU itself. There are physical limits to the sizes ....
L. I. Kontothanassis and M. L. Scott. Memory Models, chapter 24, pages 699--722. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1996.
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