You are provisioning a server with eight-core 3 GHz CMP that can execute a workload with an

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You are provisioning a server with eight-core 3 GHz CMP that can execute a workload with an overall CPI of 2.0 (assuming that L2 cache miss refills are not delayed). The L2 cache line size is 32 bytes. Assuming the system uses DDR2-667 DIMMs, how many independent memory channels should be provided so the system is not limited by memory bandwidth if the bandwidth required is sometimes twice the average? The workloads incur, on average, 6.67 L2 misses per 1 K instructions.

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Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach

ISBN: 9780128119051

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Authors: John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson

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