Editor’s Note: Demand for increasing functionality and performance in systems designs continues to drive the need for more memory even as hardware engineers balance the dynamics of system capability, ...

Architectures based on memory hierarchy address these issues ... This exchange is called a process switch or context switch. The operating system and architecture join forces to allow processes to ...

That’s the theory. In practice, adding another layer into the memory hierarchy is difficult, and Intel did not do a very good job of making 3D XPoint transparent to applications and operating systems ...

Examines the structure and function of operating systems as an intermediary between applications and computer hardware. Topics include OS design goals, hardware management, multitasking, process and ...

Conventional operating systems aren't; they're built for the hierarchy of memory technologies that are found in current computers. Fink told Bloomberg that The Machine isn't (yet) on any official ...

1) add another high speed layer to the storage hierarchy. It combines the ... that is already available with all major operating systems. The direct memory interface will require different load ...