Why Latency Lags Bandwidth, and What it Means to Computing

Abstract

Over last 20 to 25 years, for 4 disparate technologies, Latency Lags Bandwidth: * Bandwidth improved 120x to 2200x * But latency improved only 4x to 20x * Talk explains why and how to cope.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA433159

Entities

People

  • David Patterson

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Access Time
  • Bandwidth
  • Central Processing Units
  • Coaxial Cables
  • Computers
  • Data Rate
  • Ethernet
  • Information Operations
  • Local Area Networks
  • Networks
  • Operating Systems
  • Parallel Processors
  • Standards
  • Transistors

Fields of Study

  • Computer science