Temporary Internet Files - Truth and Consequences by Lyle Cochran
Much has been written about temporary internet files. To my amazement, there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about how these files are put on your computer and the effect they have on your computing experience. Some articles claim these files slow your computer to a crawl, others indicate... The size of your file cache will cause your computer to slow down ONLY if the cache size is very, very large and fragmented. ... It is a good idea to adjust the cache file size and clear the cache occasionally to get rid of unused and possibly corrupt files.

History of the Computer - Cache Memory Part 2 of 2 by Tony Stockill
(Times and speeds quoted are typical, but do not refer to any specific hardware, merely give an illustration of the principles involved.) Now we introduce a 'high speed' memory with a cycle time of, say 250 nanoseconds between the CPU and the core memory. ... When we request the first instruction, at location 100, the cache memory requests addresses 100,101,102 and 103 from the core memory all at the same time, and retains them 'in cache'. ... This path is also boosted by using cache memory. ... Expensive high speed memory is only required for a fraction of the capacity of the cheaper...

How Does the CPU Cache Work? by Stephen Orgill
The cache on your CPU has become a very important part of today's computing. The cache is a very high speed and very expensive piece of memory, which is used to speed up the memory retrieval process. Due to its expensive CPU's come with a relatively small amount of cache compared with the main... Cache Hit and Cache Miss Cache hit and cache miss are just simple terms for the accuracy of what goes into the CPU's cache. ... The main problem with having too much cache memory is that the CPU will always check the cache memory before the main system memory.

What's the Best Type of Interconnection Network for Multiprocessor MIMD Machines? by Simon Loader
With a multiprocessor MIMD machine with several hundred processors it is important that memory access is fast and available. Each of the hundred processors will be accessing different memory location for data and instructions. Any slow access to either will impede upon performance of the machine... It is also possible to use the local cache on a PE for local memory instead of external memory; these are called Cache-Only Memory Access architectures (COMA). ... Each PE`s cache is a window onto the shared memory space which is kept coherent by various methods such as snooping access to memory...

History of the Computer - Cache Memory Part 1 of 2 by Tony Stockill
We looked at the early digital computer memory, see History of the computer - Core Memory, and mentioned that the present standard RAM (Random Access Memory) is chip memory. This conforms with the commonly quoted application of Moore's Law (Gordon Moore was one of the founders of Intel).It... The concept of cache memory is based on the fact that a computer is inherently a sequential processing machine. ... You can have L1 or L2 cache on the processor, and disk cache of various sizes. ... The basic idea of cache is to predict what data is required from memory to be processed in the CPU.

I-RAM, M-RAM: Good Bye to Hard Drives? by Marcelo Reyes
A couple of weeks ago, one of my lab associates made a comment about the advantages of the I-RAM and its speed with respect to the hard drive. What is an I-RAM? I asked. Simple. They are a bank of DDR memories that are used as a hard drive. They are powered through a PCI port and use a SATA... Together with this, the MRAM requires less memory refresh than the capacitor based DRAMs and its theoretical velocity competes with that of the static RAM, the main component of the CPU’s cache. ... At the same time, while I was doing some research on I-RAMs I ran into some information about a new...

The Types Of Computer Memory by Robert Thatcher
How can a computer be such an amazing gadget? To many people they just can’t be so amazed on how computers have changed the way we live. Computers can now be found in many sizes and shapes. Almost every home appliance seems to have their own mini computer located somewhere. ... Another type of computer memory that has made computers process tasks faster is what is called cache memory. ... When a certain process is in need of data previously used, it first will try to access the cache memory if such data is stored there before accessing the central memory storage area.

Computer Memory – A Vital Part of a PC by Paul MacIver
Any device that holds data for a computer for a short period of time is called computer memory. If you have spent even just a little time with any computer, you will hear about RAM, Hard Disks, or CD's and DVD's. All these are means to store the information from a computer. ... In modern computers the random access memory (RAM), a solid-state memory, is attached to the CPU using a memory bus. ... RAM and Other Types of Memory: The primary characteristic that separates RAM from other types of memory is the fact that any memory location RAM can be accessed at almost the same speed in a...

Computers Cannot Duplicate the Human Mind by Lance Winslow
Many say that man cannot build computers, which can duplicate the human brain, because the thoughts, memories and images in the brain are spiritual. Since God made man’s brain this way, there is no way that scientists, researchers or artificial intelligence gurus in academia can recreate that. ... One recent think tanker, a biblical scholar and devout Christian wished to make a point on this issue and he stated: “Imagine something in your mind, imagine… say, a chair, this chair that you’re a visualizing is not physical, it is your thought, it is spiritual.” This was met with skepticism...

Computer Memory - The Different Types by Michael Russell
In this article we're going to review the different types of computer memory as they do not all function the same way. The most common and most often used computer memory is your RAM which stands for Random Access Memory. Random Access Memory is considered random access because you can access... This type of memory is usually used for a computer's cache memory. ... This type of memory takes advantage of the fact that in most cases the data that needs to be accessed is sequentially stored and therefore using a very fast method of accessing this memory.