Is there someone who can give a relatively simple rundown of the new technology called "transactional memory"? Why is this kind of memory starting to pop up now (Blue Gene/Q, POWER8, Haswell,…) and ...
The BlueGene/Q processors that will power the 20 petaflops Sequoia supercomputer being built by IBM for Lawrence Livermore National Labs will be the first commercial processors to include hardware ...