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No single technology is optimal in satisfying the memory requirements for a computer system.

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A line includes a _________ that identifies which particular block is currently being stored.

A) cache
B) hit
C) tag
D) locality

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All of the Pentium processors include two on-chip L1 caches,one for data and one for instructions.

__________ computing deals with super computers and their software.

The ________ rate is the rate at which data can be transferred into or out of a memory unit.

External,nonvolatile memory is referred to as ___________ or auxiliary memory.

A logical cache stores data using __________.

individual blocks or records have a unique address based on physical location with __________.

The ________ consists of the access time plus any additional time required before a second access can commence.

The most commonly used physical types of memory are: semiconductor memory,__________ memory (used for disk and tape),and optical and magneto-optical.

For random-access memory,__________ is the time from the instant that an address is presented to the memory to the instant that data have been stored or made available for use.

External memory is often equated with main memory.

It has become possible to have a cache on the same chip as the processor.

Cache design for HPC is the same as that for other hardware platforms and applications.

__________ refers to whether memory is internal or external to the computer.

Internal memory capacity is typically expressed in terms of _________.

The processor requires its own local memory.

For set-associative mapping the cache control logic interprets a memory address as three fields: Set,Word,and __________.

The __________ units execute micro-operations,fetching the required data from the L1 data cache and temporarily storing results in registers.

The unit of transfer must equal a word or an addressable unit.