The problem
How much capacity and bandwidth remain after allocation boundaries and representation effects are included?
What current research shows
Memory systems expose finite capacity and allocation constraints. GPU applications additionally depend on device-specific memory spaces, caches, and transfer behavior; compressed representations can change effective traffic without changing the logical data size.
Where the evidence stops
Fragmentation and compression are allocator- and architecture-specific. This study doesn’t assume a universal compression ratio or allocator behavior.
What Valen Systems is testing
Record requested bytes, resident bytes, allocation failures, fragmentation, compressed traffic where exposed, and useful work per byte.