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<H2><A NAME="SECTION03312000000000000000"></A><A NAME="subsecdata"></A><A NAME="7595"></A>
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Data Movement
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What often limits the actual performance of a vector--or scalar--
floating-point unit is the rate of transfer of data between different levels
of memory in the machine. Examples include: the transfer of vector operands
in and out of vector registers<A NAME="7596"></A>, the transfer of
scalar operands in and out of a
high-speed scalar processor, the movement of data between main memory and a
high-speed cache<A NAME="7597"></A> or local memory<A NAME="7598"></A>, and
paging between
actual memory and disk storage in a virtual memory system.
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It is desirable to maximize the ratio of floating-point operations to memory
references, and to re-use data as much as possible while it is stored in the
higher levels of the memory hierarchy (for example, vector registers or
high-speed cache).
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A Fortran programmer has no explicit control over these types of data
movement,
although one can often influence them by imposing a suitable structure on an
algorithm.
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<I>Susan Blackford</I>
<BR><I>1999-10-01</I>
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