High Performance Computing 1
Latency and Data Locality
•      Latency
•System Sec.    Clocks
•SGI O2, local DRAM 320 ns          62
•SGI Origin, remote DRAM      1us        200
•IBM SP2, remote node 40 us      3,000
•HTMT system, local DRAM   50 ns      5,000
•HTMT system, remote memory 200 ns    20,000
•SGI cluster, remote memory     3 ms     300,000