processors
IBM and Intel launch next wave of processors
News Intel and IBM are set to launch processors that both companies claim will vastly improve performance over current products. According to press reports, Intel is to launch the latest version of its Pentium III Xeon... [22 May 2000]
Efficient Switching Supports of Distributed .NET Remoting With Network Processors
White Paper The paper takes the advantage of the programmability of network processors to develop the content-based switch for distributing workloads generated from remote invocations in .NET. Distributed object-oriented... [10 Sep 2008]
Virtualization on Servers With Intel Xeon Processors Helps DDS Dresdner Direktservice GmbH to Achieve Better Performance at Lower Cost
White Paper This decision was prompted by successful trials on two servers with multi-core Intel Xeon processors. Virtualization with servers based on multi-core Intel Xeon processors has helped DDS to reduce its IT... [08 Nov 2008]
Code Transformation Strategies for Extensible Embedded Processors
White Paper This paper shows why compilers should sometimes make different decisions when targeting customized processors, and they show how traditional ISE identification techniques can improve significantly if the code is properly... [25 Nov 2008]
Modeling Multi-Threaded Processors
White Paper Multiple processors are connected to a common memory pool and a combination of hardware and operating system functions permit work to be balanced across the entire unit. This paper explains a conceptual architecture... [01 May 2009]
Intel's PDAs: Nice new processors, but where's the software?
News Anyone hoping to buy PDAs with the new generation of Intel processors is likely to be disappointed as there's no software out there capable of using their whizzy new features. Intel announced the first of its new line of... [11 Jun 2002]
Computer Vision on Multi-Core Processors: Articulated Body Tracking
White Paper The recent emergence of multi-core processors enables a new trend in the usage of computers. Recent multi-core processors can potentially serve the needs of such workloads. This paper studies the... [25 Nov 2008]
Server Consolidation With Intel Xeon Processors and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
White Paper Server consolidation with Intel Xeon processors and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V can dramatically improve server density, and allow businesses to provide drastically more services using the same power, cooling, and data... [20 Jun 2009]
Supporting Flexible Streaming Media Protection Through Privacy-Aware Secure Processors
White Paper The research in the computer architecture community has shown that secure processors can help to defend various types of attacks such as those with a hijacked and malicious OS. Due to the explosion of Internet technology... [30 Nov 2008]
Optimizing SMT Processors for High Single-Thread Performance
White Paper Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) processors achieve high processor throughput at the expense of single-thread performance. This paper investigates resource allocation policies for SMT processors that... [03 Dec 2008]
Server Consolidation Using Quad-Core Processors
White Paper The quadcore processors were also 34 percent faster than the Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 5148 running the same consolidated workloads, with workload completion times remaining much more uniform and predictable as the... [29 Mar 2008]
Performance Characteristics of Dual-Processor HPC Cluster Nodes Based on 64-Bit Commodity Processors
White Paper Some of these 64-bit processors also use more advanced memory subsystems, which provide increased performance for some applications. This paper examines the overall performance characteristics of three dual-processor... [21 Oct 2008]
Selecting Server Processors to Reduce Total Cost
White Paper The newest high-end Intel® Xeon® processors based on Next-Generation Intel® Microarchitecture (Nehalem) can significantly enhance server performance, reducing TCO by 42 percent. This paper examines how Intel IT is... [23 Jun 2009]
RAMP: Research Accelerator for Multiple Processors - A Community Vision for a Shared Experimental Parallel HW/SW Platform
White Paper Hence the name of the system, Research Accelerator for Multiple Processors (RAMP), as it should ramp up the rate of research in hardware and software for multiple processors. This paper proposes to build... [21 Oct 2008]
Single-Chip Control/Data-Plane Processors: Trends, Features, Deployment
White Paper Although most consumer networking equipment today uses simple system-on-a-chip processors, the shift to next-generation broadband technologies is driving a transition to true SCDP devices in the consumer and SOHO markets. [23 Mar 2009]