In the most simple computer system architecture, all control lies with the CPU (Central Processing Unit). This means not only the execution of commands that affect the CPU’s internal register or cache ...

The speed of processors has increased to the point where they often are no longer the performance bottleneck for many systems. It’s now about data access. Moving data around costs both time and power, ...

Direct memory access (DMA) systems in computers are more powerful than you might think, and [Bruce Land] and [Joseph Primmer] have done some clever hacking to take full advantage of this on the PIC32 ...

More storage, now. And make it faster! The explosion of data gathering in today’s online business environment means that your storage requirements keep going up, and the amount of data that you need ...

Bottom line: Big accelerator Memory (BaM) is a newly developed architecture from Nvidia, made in collaboration with IBM and several US universities. The technology aims to improve data center ...