Re: Multithreaded scientific programming

["Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>]

Martin Krischik wrote:
> David B. Chorlian wrote:
>> Talk about cache, TLB, and other memory management topics which
>> are the serious problems in large-scale scientific computing.
> 
> Well, for that I would have to know what a TLB is...

Translation lookaside buffer � a small cache memory for the page table, 
which the memory management unit uses to speed up the translation from 
virtual addresses to hardware addresses. I guess David wants to write 
programs such that they only relatively rarely need to access memory 
pages that aren't in the TLB.

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