Editors Note: This is the second of two independent posts on the performance of Intel's new memory technology. For the last ten years,...

Intel Optane DC persistent memory modules are like DRAM in form factor and can be configured as volatile main memory, persistent memory or as a combination.

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Computer architecture is an important and exciting field of computer science, which enables many other fields (eg. big-data processing,...

With two blog posts, we argue for more use of simple models beyond Amdahl’s Law. Part 1 previously discussed Bottleneck Analysis and Little’s Law, while this post (Part 2) presents the M/M/1 Queue.

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HPCA celebrated its 25th anniversary this year with significant participation of over 300 attendees! It was held in Washington D.C., USA...