Taking The Locks Off Transactional Memory
The earliest paper on Transactional Memory that can be found – Transactional Memory: Architectural Support for Lock-Free Data Structures – was written about twenty years ago. …
The earliest paper on Transactional Memory that can be found – Transactional Memory: Architectural Support for Lock-Free Data Structures – was written about twenty years ago. …
The natural place for Intel to launch the next iteration of its “Knights” family of parallel X86 processors is at one of the two major supercomputer conferences that are hosted each year, which is the ISC conference in Germany and the SC conference in the United States. …
These are exciting times for the memory hierarchy in systems. New kinds of DRAM and non-volatile memories are becoming available to system architects to enhance the performance and responsiveness of the applications that run upon them. …
People control the purse strings for datacenter budgets, at least for the time being until CFOs are replaced by algorithms, and that is one of the reasons why it is hard to predict precisely what enterprise, hyperscale, HPC, and cloud organizations will do in any given quarter when it comes to spending on infrastructure. …
With the sale of its System x division to Lenovo Group last fall and the winding down of its BlueGene massively parallel computing line, IBM lost a lot of its market presence in the high performance computing space. …
The only number you need to remember about Intel’s Data Center Group business for the next three years is this one: 15 percent. …
This is not the first time that Big Blue has found itself the underdog in the datacenter, and it probably will not be the last time, either. …
The “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor from Intel will be shipping by the end of the year and ramping in volume through 2016, and it is set to shake up the systems market in a number of significant ways. …
Flash memory is cheap, but it isn’t fast, at least not by the standards of DRAM. …
When it comes to high performance computing, IBM is in a phase change that will take it several years to complete with its key OpenPower infrastructure partners, Nvidia and Mellanox Technologies. …
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