The Fractal Structure of Data Reference Applications to the Memory Hierarchy /

• Main Author: McNutt, Bruce (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Advances in Database Systems, 22
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer memory systems.; Data structures (Computer science).; Information storage and retrieval.; Computer Science.; Data Structures.; Memory Structures.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Information Storage and Retrieval.

The architectural concept of a memory hierarchy has been immensely successful, making possible today's spectacular pace of technology evolution in both the volume of data and the speed of data access. Its success is difficult to understand, however, when examined within the traditional "me...