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Memory Contention:

• The single most important bottleneck on high-performance machines---even with multiple load and store pipelines.

Objective:

• Keep the ratio of memory references to floating-point operations as low as possible.
• Key is to retain data in the highest level of the memory hierarchy.
  • vector registers
  • cache/local memory