Abstract
Memory interleaving and multiple access ports are the key to a high memory bandwidth in vector processing systems. Each of the active ports supports an independent access stream to memory among which access conflicts may arise. Such conflicts lead to a decrease in memory bandwidth and consequently to longer execution times. We present some analytical results regarding the access in vector mode to an interleaved memory system. In order to demonstrate the practical effects of our analytical results we have done time measurements of some simple vector loops on a 2-CPU, 16-bank CRAY X-MP. By corresponding simulations we obtained the number and type of memory conflicts that were encountered.
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