Data prefetching has emerged as a critical approach to mitigate the performance bottlenecks imposed by memory access latencies in modern computer architectures. By predicting the data likely to be ...

This course examines fundamental issues and design trade-offs in modern processor architectures. We will discuss some of the constraints that limit the design and programmability of modern processors, ...

Growing volume of data and limited improvements in performance create new opportunities for approaches that never got off the ground. Adding processing directly into memory is getting a serious look, ...

Before I get started, I want to point out that this article makes a couple of assumptions. First, I am assuming that you are running either Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 on a 32-bit ...