While traditional single core systems employ a dedicated cache, theintroduction of multi-core platforms presents the opportunity toconsider the shared use of cache by multiple processors. Designs ...

Solid-state drives (SSD) are fast, but when it comes to today's server and data-center needs, even they're not fast enough. So, what should you do? Perhaps try Intel's just released Cache Acceleration ...

Scaling processing performance beyond the frequency and power envelope of single core systems has led to the emergence of multi-core clusters. Data access management within such processing systems ...

In part 1, we explained the rationale for using caches and showed how caches work. This week we explain how to minimize cache misses, giving some practical examples. As noted in part 1, cache misses ...

Modern multicore systems demand sophisticated strategies to manage shared cache resources. As multiple cores execute diverse workloads concurrently, cache interference can lead to significant ...

The evolution from chip to system-on-chip (SoC) has brought value to both the engineering community and end users. With the move to greater complexity, problems that were once isolated to individual ...