Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died
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Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died
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Re: Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died
#2My dissertation was on the memory wall, and I never heard of her :/ RIP
Re: Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died
#3She was a CS PhD and somewhat itinerant professor with a long career who wrote a prominent CS paper about computer memory, Hitting the Memory Wall: Implications of the Obvious
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/216585.216588
on her obituary page, you will see a prominent "Memory Wall" link that is NOT a reference to her paper, but a place for sharing your thoughts about her life
Re: Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died
#4She was a CS PhD and somewhat itinerant professor with a long career who wrote a prominent CS paper about computer memory, Hitting the Memory Wall: Implications of the Obvious https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/216585.216588 on her obituary page, you will see a prominent "Memory Wall" link that is NOT a reference to her paper, but a place for sharing your thoughts about her life
you wouldn't believe how many people cite that paper as "Wulf et al." when that's practically more characters than saying "Wulf and McKee"
I notice these things a bit more as she was my PhD thesis advisor
Re: Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died
#5There are probably so many stories out there of interesting things she did. A few are breifly referenced at her old website here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20060116130917/http://www.csl.co...
Re: Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died
#6She was a CS PhD and somewhat itinerant professor with a long career who wrote a prominent CS paper about computer memory, Hitting the Memory Wall: Implications of the Obvious https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/216585.216588 on her obituary page, you will see a prominent "Memory Wall" link that is NOT a reference to her paper, but a place for sharing your thoughts about her life
you wouldn't believe how many people cite that paper as "Wulf et al." when that's practically more characters than saying "Wulf and McKee" I notice these things a bit more as she was my PhD thesis advisor
There's only two authors! That's so rude!
Re: Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died
#7My dissertation was on the memory wall, and I never heard of her :/ RIP
Could you (or someone else in the know) give us a brief overview of the current state of the memory wall issue?
Re: Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died
#8She was a CS PhD and somewhat itinerant professor with a long career who wrote a prominent CS paper about computer memory, Hitting the Memory Wall: Implications of the Obvious https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/216585.216588 on her obituary page, you will see a prominent "Memory Wall" link that is NOT a reference to her paper, but a place for sharing your thoughts about her life
Yeah tenure is nice but there's just a hint of mystery behind the title "itinerant professor." Like a wizard that just pops up in places to work computer science magic.
Re: Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died
#9My dissertation was on the memory wall, and I never heard of her :/ RIP
Could you (or someone else in the know) give us a brief overview of the current state of the memory wall issue?
Oh my knowledge is woefully out of date. But I believe the memory wall is a fact of life for the most part. Like many others, I nibbled around the edges of the constraint at massive cost in increased complexity. Outside of very specific exceptions the cure tends to be worse than the disease.