The CPU is one of the major power consumers in a portable computer, and considerable power can be saved by turning off the CPU when it is not doing useful work. In Apple's Ma...
Put yourself in the place of a corporate Chief Information Officer or government agency Information Resource manager... The new budget managers are looking for a quick kill. Your ...
Modern systems are able to put two or more processors on the same die (Chip Multiprocessors, CMP), each with its private caches, while the last level caches can be either private ...
Pierfrancesco Foglia, Francesco Panicucci, Cosimo ...
It has recently become clear that power management is of critical importance in modern enterprise computing environments. The traditional drive for higher performance has influenc...
Traditionally, cache coherence in large-scale shared-memory multiprocessors has been ensured by means of a distributed directory structure stored in main memory. In this way, the ...