[HN Gopher] Building the Perfect Memory Bandwidth Beast
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       Building the Perfect Memory Bandwidth Beast
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2023-01-25 19:33 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | nickdothutton wrote:
       | Some of you might appreciate reading about the original memory
       | bandwidth monster. 1995 vintage.
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_T90
        
       | justahuman74 wrote:
       | whats an example of a workload that scales well by memory
       | bandwidth rather than compute?
        
         | jeffreygoesto wrote:
         | Volume rendering.
        
         | marktangotango wrote:
         | Memory hard crypto POWs such as Equihash or Autolykos spring to
         | mind.
        
         | adamcharnock wrote:
         | Factorio, interestingly. Their dev blog talked about how it was
         | typically constrained on memory bandwidth.
        
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