What makes an application memory bandwidth bound?
- by TheLQ
This has been something that's been bothering me for a while: What makes an application memory bandwidth bound?
For example, take this monstrosity of a computer that calculated the 5 trillionth digit of pi (and later 10 trillionth digit). I was surprised that they choose the lower but faster 98 GB RAM at 1066 MHz instead of the larger but slower…