Disk subsystems span the range of configuration complexity from single disk drives to large installations of disk arrays. They can be directly attached to individual computer syst...
Virtual memoy page translation tables provide mappings from virtual to physical addresses. When the hardware controlled Tratmlation L.ookaside Buffers (TLBs) do not contain a tran...
Sequential consistency (SC) is the simplest programming interface for shared-memory systems but imposes program order among all memory operations, possibly precluding high perform...
Although SIMD (Single Instruction stream Multiple Data stream) parallel computers have existed for decades, it is only in the past few years that a new version of SIMD has evolved...
Internet services like the world-wide web and multimedia applications like News- and Video-on-Demand have become very popular over the last years. Due to the large number of users ...