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title: "Models of Computation"
summary: "Models of Computation: a page of the HPC note."
date: 2026-09-11
author: hpcnotes
kind: note
parent: hpc-complexity
order: 3
tags: hpc
draft: false
---

RAM, I/O, and the realistic cost of a cache miss. Use the model that matches the bottleneck you measured.