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To: Elmer who wrote (108592)	8/27/2000 3:05:34 PM
From: Scumbria	of 186894

Elmer, Intel still plans on RDRAM for highend systems. The statement made a few weeks ago by an Intel spokesman to the effect that RamBus performance only shows up when running multiple applications simultaneously has merit and is ignored by the uninformed, and the intentionally misleading (that's you Scumbria). I've discussed this issue before. If multitasking operations thrash the cache, they will cause more cache misses and more DRAM traffic. In these situations, it is much more efficient (less total clock time) to run the applications serially. This is because the cache hit rates remain much higher. That is why CPU design houses use queueing software like LSF. Proper management of CPU utilization is a much better solution to the problem than putting expensive memory on your workstation. Another solution is to put larger caches on the CPU, which is what everybody is doing (except for P4 which will be crippled by a small L2 cache.) Scumbria

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