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HBM might be an interesting idea. I would love to see multiple bandwidth levels of memory becoming a norm, with computers a very fast small amount of memory, an
by winter_blue 6y ago
HBM might be an interesting idea. I would love to see multiple bandwidth levels of memory becoming a norm, with computers a very fast small amount of memory, and a larger set of DRR4 or DRR5. We already have multiple levels of cache, why not having multiple levels of RAM? Operating systems and software would need to accommodate a new reality where NUMA is the norm though. But it’s good that we even have the concept of NUMA, so this is not entirely uncharted/unfamiliar territory.
- wmf 6y agoYou would love to see computers become harder to program?
- makapuf 6y agoIt canbe nice to have the opportunity to program something harder but faster. Counter example: Itanium, which was too hard to program (compilers) for.
- sanxiyn 6y agoIt is kind of ironic that compiler theory has advanced and now we can target Itanium no problem. It was a bit (well, a lot) ahead of its time.
- winter_blue 6y agoI would try to build a new compiler (or a LLVM intermediary processing layer) that does NUMA optimizations.