IA-64 Cache Management

• Cache management critical for high performance technical computing

  • Workloads are memory bound

• IA-64 pre-fetches data from memory for fast access

  • Reduces impact of memory constraints
  • Improves performance of memory intensive applications

• IA-64 manages caches for maximum efficiency

  • Special instructions allow data to be directed to optimal cache locations
  • Efficient use of caches = efficient use of bandwidth

Reduces the memory bottleneck

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