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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran by new299 on Sunday December 18, 2016 @10:30PM (#13209349)
As an aside, how to you accurately measure memory bandwidth? I've been looking for a good solution but couldn't find one.
Re:Why physicists still use Fortran by pandaman on Sunday December 18, 2016 @11:10PM (#13209463)
Some processors expose performance counters but you don't need to accurately measure memory bandwidth to know you are maxing out. Suppose you know that the memory bandwidth is 1Gb/s and you program reads 100Gb of data to produce the result. If the execution takes ~100s then you know you hit the maximum memory bandwidth.