Applications affected by memory performance I'm writing a paper on the topic of applications affected more by memory performance than processor performance. I've got a lot written regarding the gap between the two, however I can't seem to find anything about the applications that might benefit more from memory performance.

I suppose these are applications that make a large amount of memory references, but I have no idea what kind of applications would make such large number of references to make it stand out?

Can you please give me any pointers on how to proceed, some links?
Memcache and other memory heavy software
software with large working sets
Diskless Servers
Software backed by Ramdisk
Any software that needs fast access to data (other than Databases)