A fundraising campaign for ‘Remember Us the Holocaust’ seeks to generate $40M to $60M to acquire land, construct a building ...

Real-time as well as store & forward on-board processing applications are increasingly requiring larger amounts of fast on-board storage, and the choice of memory technology has a major impact on ...

Methods for the reduction of address space are not new to software engineering. Hashing is a software technique for mapping a vector input into a lower-dimensional vector output. Suppose the goal is ...

Memory (RAM) that is addressed starting with 0, and each subsequent byte is referenced by the next sequential number (1, 2, 3, etc.). A 32-bit computer with a 32-bit address space treats all 4GB of ...

The dawn of GPU computing came about in large part due to the immense gap in compute performance between traditional CPUs and programmable GPUs. Whereas CPUs excel with serial workloads, modern GPUs ...

The CPU and the GPU share access to some pages of memory. New Linux code helps the kernel keep track of memory holding data for the GPU. The management of video hardware has long been an area of ...

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 ...