The following excerpt is from chapter 3, User-Level Memory Management, of Arnold Robbins’ book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, Prentice Hall PTR; (April 12, 2004), used with permission ...

The history of computing could arguably be divided into three eras: that of mainframes, minicomputers, and microcomputers. Minicomputers provided an important bridge between the first mainframes and ...

Write program to run in parallel? Yes. Did you remember to use a Scalable Memory Allocator? No? Then read on … In my experience, making sure “memory allocation” for a program is ready for parallelism ...

Suppose for a moment that you're an engineer designing a new 8051-based product. Not unexpectedly, the application's code size will greatly exceed the 64KB architectural limit of the 8051's program ...

High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is the commonly used type of DRAM for data center GPUs like NVIDIA's H200 and AMD's MI325X. High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) is a stack of flash chips with an HBM interface. What ...

As SK hynix leads and Samsung lags, Micron positions itself as a strong contender in the high-bandwidth memory market for generative AI. Micron Technology (Nasdaq:MU) has started shipping samples of ...