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Case Studies
Nivio Launches Revolutionary Virtual Desktop Service Based on AMD Opteron Processor-Based Servers and Microsoft Windows Server
Mar 2008
Nivio is a Switzerland-based start-up with an Indian heart that has developed innovative technology that gives users global access to a personal virtual desktop from nearly any Internet-connected...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
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Heartland Technology Solutions Implements AMD-Based Presentation Virtualization Solution to Reduce Costs Internally, Drive Revenue Externally
Dec 2007
Heartland Technology Solutions (HTS) is a regional technology solution provider headquartered in Harlan, Iowa. There are currently seven offices in five states with 80 employees, providing...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
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AMD Helps HAL9000 Bring Art to Life
Mar 2008
Established in 1999, HAL9000, was esteemed for its high quality computer science experience, was already well respected in the field of high-end, high-definition photography. It needed to bring to...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
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AMD Provides Critical IT Infrastructure for Helping Ingersoll Rand Drive Company Growth
Apr 2008
With $11 billion in annual revenue, Ingersoll-Rand Company Limited (NYSE: IR) is one of the world's largest global industrial companies. Ingersoll Rand owns 120 plants in 60 different countries,...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
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Austin Police Department Relies on AMD Technology and Corporate Support to Solve High Tech Crimes
Jan 2009
The High Tech Crime Unit of the Austin, Texas Police Department (APD) resides in a nondescript office building several miles north of downtown. It needed is providing assistance in crime...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
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Case Studies
Music-Analysis Firm Affords Twice as Much Hardware Through Sun Startup Essentials
Jan 2009
MusicMetric helps companies in the music industry make faster, better-informed decisions by uncovering trends between musicians, releases, brands, and events. It needed to support the performance...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Case Studies
Telecommunications IT Team Reduces Search Time by 50 Per Cent With Enterprise Portal
Mar 2008
Batelco is a leading telecommunications provider in Bahrain. The company employs 1,500 people and delivers mobile, broadband, fixed line and data services to more than 700,000 customers. Batelco...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
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Case Studies
Siemens' Recognition Equipment, Powered by AMD Athlon MP Processors, Speeds U.S. Postal Service Delivery and Boosts Efficiency
Jan 2009
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) delivers more than 200 billion pieces of mail each year to over 137 million delivery addresses. The ever-present challenge it faces is to improve speed and reduce...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
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Case Studies
Cadalyst 2P Workstation Review Proves There's More to Performance
Jan 2009
Xi Computer Corporation is the High Performance CAD Workstation & 3D Graphics leader. Xi faced a stiff challenge by going against two workstations powered by twin 1.7 GHz processors. Xi had chosen...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
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Advanced Micro Devices Case Study: Jim Henson's Creature Shop
Jan 2009
The Jim Henson Company has a long history of bringing puppets to life. It needed to create technology that allows a non-technical performer to "puppeteer" a computer graphics character. To meet...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
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Advanced Micro Devices Case Study: Bentley Systems Software
Jan 2009
With over 2,800 colleagues in over 50 offices worldwide and annual revenues surpassing $450 million, Bentley Systems has invested over $I billion in research, development and acquisitions since...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
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Advanced Micro Devices Case Study: Digital Anvil
Jan 2009
Microsoft Corp. announced it has reached a preliminary agreement to acquire Digital Anvil Inc., a premier games developer based in Austin, Texas. It had biggest problem with making art on...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
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Case Studies
SAVVIS Sharpens Its Edge in a Competitive Market With HP
Nov 2008
Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, SAVVIS, Inc. is one of the world's largest providers of computing services, offering an IT Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform that extends to 45 countries....
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Norway Telco Calls Up HP Integrity Superdome to Supercharge Billing and CRM Services
Jul 2008
Norway's second largest mobile telephone operator, NetCom, is a wholly owned business of telecommunications leader TeliaSonera (www.teliasonera.com). The company wanted to improve their ability to...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Optimizing Your Video Network: Improving the User Experience. Advantages of the TANDBERG MXP Platform
Jun 2009
The TANDBERG platform, the Media Experience (MXP), is the base for the broad range of TANDBERG's visual communication product families. This platform introduces an exciting array of features, and...
Provided by TANDBERG, now part of Cisco
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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems: A Better Foundation for Mission-Critical Applications
Jun 2008
For many years, Microsoft Windows Server running on industry-standard servers has been moving up in the data center, providing businesses with an increasingly scalable and robust platform for...
Provided by Itanium Solutions Alliance
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White Papers
Server Consolidation With Intel Xeon Processors and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
Oct 2008
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...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
Managed Care Provider Hits "Five Nines" Uptime With HP Virtualization Solution
Jun 2008
Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Tampa, FL, WellCare Health Plans, Inc. is a provider of managed care services dedicated to government-sponsored healthcare programs. WellCare wanted to provide...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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World's Fastest-Growing Equity Options Exchange Trades Up to HP Integrity-OpenVMS Architecture
Dec 2007
Launched in May 2000, International Securities Exchange (ISE) was the nation's first entirely electronic options market. ISE wanted to maintain competitiveness, accommodate increasingly large...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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A New Level of Virtual Flexibility From Terremark, HP, VMware, and AMD
Dec 2008
Terremark Worldwide is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services delivered on the industries most robust and advanced operations platform. Terremark wanted to provide customers with...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Accelerating Business Analytics
Dec 2008
A global leader in the chemicals industry, Celanese makes a wide range of products for consumer and industrial applications. Celanese wanted to increase the performance of business intelligence...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
HMC Connectivity Security for IBM POWER5 and POWER6 Processor-Based Systems
Feb 2008
This paper describes data that is exchanged between the Hardware Management Console (HMC) and the IBM Service Delivery Center (SDC) and the methods and protocols for this exchange. This includes...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Top Ten Hidden Costs to OEM Businesses
Sep 2008
Embedded systems organizations are in the process of transforming their operations from working with custom mother board design and manufacture, to building on white box and brandname equipment....
Provided by Bell Microproducts
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Whitepapers
AMBA Dedicated DMA Controller With Multiple Masters Using VHDL
Jun 2011
This paper describes implementation of DMA controller of AMBA Bus with two masters using VHDL. DMA controller is a synthesizable soft IP core connected to the AMBA AHB Bus for easy integration...
Provided by Kurukshetra University
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Whitepapers
Self Checking and Fault Tolerant Digital Design
Dec 2009
During the process of development of any system, system reliability is of utmost importance. Specially when designing a processor, it is desired that a processor function correctly even in the...
Provided by Kurukshetra University
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Case Studies
Batch Processing Tasks Are 40 Percent Faster With Dell PowerEdge Servers
May 2009
DataVision was seeking an alternative hardware solution to recommend to its banking clients, which would offer high performance and support in remote areas without requiring a compromise on cost....
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
Intel Xeon Processors Help Capture and Analyze Massive Amounts of Scientific Data From the World's Most Powerful Particle Accelerator
Mar 2009
Several hundred feet beneath the French-Swiss border lies the world's largest, most powerful particle accelerator - the Large Hadron Collider. More than 2,200 researchers from around the globe...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Intel Itanium: A Scalable Platform for Mission-Critical Applications
Apr 2008
IT managers frequently "Inherit" the infrastructure they must manage. Often, that infrastructure is fragmented in information "Silos" that impede the process of virtualization of the server...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Green Embedded Computing and the MPC8536E PowerQUICC III Processor
Jun 2009
Growing energy demands from embedded electronics and increasing evidence of dramatic global climate change are generating greater environmental and cultural pressure for green solutions in...
Provided by Freescale Semiconductor
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White Papers
Using Hardware Performance Counters on Windows
Mar 2009
This paper describes how drivers can safely use hardware performance counters on Windows 7 platforms. Today's processors expose hardware performance counters that count many different events....
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Early Experience With a Commercial Hardware Transactional Memory Implementation
Mar 2009
The author reports on their experience with the Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) feature of two pre-production revisions of a new commercial multicore processor. The author's experience...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
Silicon Photonic WDM Point-to-Point Network for Multi-Chip Processor Interconnects
Apr 2009
Processor performance in instructions per second continues to rise. But the improvement is no longer coming from increasing clock rates due to the associated power, heat and design complexity...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Multithreaded Application Acceleration With Chip Multithreading (CMT), MultiCore/Multithread UltraSPARC Processors: UltraSPARC Processor Applications
Aug 2008
The proliferation of billions of devices - ranging from 3G cell phones to netbook computers - means consumers increasingly demand instantaneous access to information, whether the latest news story...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
Best Practices: Adoption of Symmetric Multiprocessing Using VxWorks and Intel Multi-Core Processors
Jan 2009
Three main trends that are shaping the embedded device market today are smaller form factors, standardization, and improved performance per watt. In addition, applications across all device...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Transforming Business-Critical Infrastructure Through Migration to Itanium-Based Servers: A Decision-Maker's Guide to the Benefits, Challenges, and Available Resources
Nov 2008
Itanium-based servers are changing the face of business-critical computing by delivering enterprise-class scalability and availability on an industry-standard computing architecture that is more...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Implementing Intel vPro Technology to Drive Down Client Management Costs
Dec 2008
Intel IT is in the first year of a multi-year program to deploy and use Intel vPro technology to maintain, manage, and protect the client systems more efficiently and effectively. The author has...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Using the Preprocessor Feature With External Tables in Oracle Database 11g
May 2009
In Oracle 11.1.0.7 (and 10.2.0.5) a new feature has been added to external tables that allows users to preprocess input data before it is sent to the access driver. The ability to manipulate input...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
High-Powered Business Results With Lower Power Costs: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series
Mar 2009
Enterprise data centers meet many needs, from email systems to line-of-business processes, high-performance real-time applications, and SOA initiatives. Deployment models range from stand-alone...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
Orchid Technologies Engineering & Consulting Case Study: Elevator Controller
Jul 2008
The design of Elevator Control Systems presents a unique mix of sophisticated computer control needs blended with industrial strength power switching requirements. Orchid's primary challenge was...
Provided by Orchid Technologies Engineering & Consulting
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White Papers
Introduction to Intel's 32nm Process Technology
Feb 2009
Intel introduces 32nm process technology with second generation high-k + metal gate transistors. This process technology builds upon the tremendously successful 45nm process technology that...
Provided by Intel
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Whitepapers
Thermal Management for 3D Processors Via Task Scheduling
Sep 2008
A rising horizon in chip fabrication is the 3D integration technology. It stacks two or more dies vertically with a dense, high-speed interface to increase the device density and reduce the delay...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Frequent Value Compression in Packet-Based NoC Architectures
Jan 2009
The proliferation of Chip Multi-Processors (CMPs) has led to the integration of large on-chip caches. For scalability reasons, a large on-chip cache is often divided into smaller banks that are...
Provided by University of Pitesti
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Variation-Tolerant Non-Uniform 3D Cache Management in Die Stacked Multicore Processor
Dec 2009
Process variations in integrated circuits have significant impact on their performance, leakage and stability. This is particularly evident in large, regular and dense structures such as DRAMs....
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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A Low-Cost Memory Remapping Scheme for Address Bus Protection
Feb 2010
The address sequence on the processor-memory bus can reveal abundant information about the control flow of a program. This can lead to leakage of proprietary algorithms or critical information...
Provided by Reed Business Information
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Thermal-Aware Task Scheduling for 3D Multicore Processors
Jan 2010
A rising horizon in chip fabrication is the 3D integration technology. It stacks two or more dies vertically with a dense, high-speed interface to increase the device density and reduce the delay...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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VLSI Design of 128-Point Pipeline FFT/IFFT Processor
Mar 2012
VHDL is an acronym for VHSIC Hardware Description language (VHSIC stands for Very High Speed Integrated Circuits). It is a hardware description language that can be used to model a digital system...
Provided by International Journal of Communications and Engineering
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A Composite and Scalable Cache Coherence Protocol for Large Scale CMPs
Jun 2011
The number of on-chip cores of modern Chip Multi-Processors (CMPs) is growing fast with technology scaling. However, it remains a big challenge to efficiently support cache coherence for large...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Constructing Large and Fast Multi-Level Cell STT-MRAM Based Cache for Embedded Processors
Jun 2012
MLC STT-MRAM (Multi-Level Cell Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetic RAM), an emerging non-volatile memory technology, has become a promising candidate to construct L2 caches for high-end embedded...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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WMTrace - A Lightweight Memory Allocation Tracker and Analysis Framework
Jun 2011
The diverging gap between processor and memory performance has been a well discussed aspect of computer architecture literature for some years. The use of multi-core processor designs has,...
Provided by University of Warsaw
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WMTools - Assessing Parallel Application Memory Utilisation at Scale
Jul 2011
The divergence between processor and memory performance has been a well discussed aspect of computer architecture literature for some years. The recent use of multi-core processor designs has,...
Provided by University of Warsaw
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On the Parallelisation of MCMC by Speculative Chain Execution
Jan 2010
The increasing availability of multi-core and multiprocessor architectures provides new opportunities for improving the performance of many computer simulations. Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)...
Provided by University of Warsaw
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Whitepapers
Parallel Gauss-Seidel On A Torus Network-On-Chip Architecture
Dec 2012
Computing problems from the scientific and engineering fields are getting more and more complex requiring large memory capacity and high computational speed. One way of matching these needs is by...
Provided by World Science Festival
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Whitepapers
TrC-MC: Decentralized Software Transactional Memory for Multi-Multicore Computers
Mar 2013
To achieve single-lock atomicity in software transactional memory systems, the commit procedure often goes through a common clock variable. When there are frequent transactional commits, clock...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Performance Evaluation of AES Algorithm as a Peripheral in SOC
Mar 2012
The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)is a symmetric block cipher operating on fixed block sizes of 128Bit and is specified for key sizes of 128, 192 and 256 Bit designed by Joan Daemen and...
Provided by International Journal of Communications and Engineering
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Performance Evaluation of FPM on Spartan Family FPGas and Analyze Its Effect on Bonded IOBs
Dec 2012
VHDL programming for IEEE single precision floating point multiplier module have been explored because floating point multiplication is a most widely used operation in DSP/Math processors, robots,...
Provided by International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering
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Android Based Processor Performance Analyser
Jan 2012
Android mobile operating system is based on 32 bit ARM Processor. ARM processor consists of 32 bit wide Registers and program counter. The authors measure the difference between two measurements...
Provided by International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering
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Design of Low Power Fir Filter Using Improved Carry Select Adder
Mar 2012
Design of area- and power efficient high-speed data path logic system forms the largest areas of research in VLSI system design. In digital adders, the speed of addition is limited by the time...
Provided by International Journal of Communications and Engineering
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Implementation of Digital PID Feedback Controller for a Buck Converter
Mar 2012
The design of a digital controller is presented for a dc-dc converter. Digital control of dc-dc converter using DSP is becoming more and more common in industry today. Starting with a dc-dc buck...
Provided by International Journal of Communications and Engineering
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Simplify IT Through Hardware Technology Refresh ebook
Mar 2013
Spiraling power and cooling costs, unplanned downtime, and the need for new services to support a demanding, "always on" user community- these new challenges simply can't be met with endless farms...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Oracle SPARC Innovation Infographic
Mar 2013
Oracle celebrates 25 years of SPARC with an infographic highlighting the past, present and future of SPARC technology. From the launch of Sun Microsystems to our next-generation SPARC M-Series...
Provided by Oracle
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25 Years of SPARC Microsite
Mar 2013
For 25 years SPARC technology has been at the heart of enterprise computing. Help us celebrate a quarter century of innovation and see how SPARC has transformed the past, present, and future of...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Is Co-Scheduling Too Expensive for SMP VMs?
Apr 2011
Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP) Virtual Machines (VMs) allow users to take advantage of a multiprocessor infrastructure. Despite the advantage, SMP VMs can cause synchronization latency to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
GPU-Based Translation-Invariant 2D Discrete Wavelet Transform for Image Processing
Mar 2011
The Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is applied to various signal and image processing applications. However the computation is computational expense. Therefore plenty of approaches have been...
Provided by NORTH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY UNION
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Concurrent Differential Evolution Based on MapReduce
Sep 2010
Multi-core processors, which have more than one Central Processing Unit (CPU), have been introduced widely into personal computers. Therefore, in order to utilize the additional cores, or CPUs, to...
Provided by NORTH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY UNION
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Using Address Independent Seed Encryption and Bonsai Merkle Trees to Make Secure Processors OSand PerformanceFriendly
Sep 2007
In today's digital world, computer security issues have become increasingly important. In particular, researchers have proposed designs for secure processors which utilize hardware-based memory...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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Whitepapers
Directory-Oblivious Capacity Sharing in Tiled CMPs
Feb 2013
In bus-based CMPs with private caches, Capacity Sharing is applied by spilling victim cache blocks from over-utilized caches to under-utilized ones. If a spilled block is needed, it can be...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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Whitepapers
Scaling the Bandwidth Wall: Challenges in and Avenues for CMP Scaling
Jun 2009
As transistor density continues to grow at an exponential rate in accordance to Moore's law, the goal for many Chip Multi-Processor (CMP) systems is to scale the number of on-chip cores...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Memory Management Thread for Heap Allocation Intensive Sequential Applications
Sep 2009
Dynamic memory management is one of the most ubiquitous and expensive operations in many C/C++ applications. Some C/C++ programs might spend up to one third of their execution time in dynamic...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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Whitepapers
Prefetching With Helper Threads for Loosely Coupled Multiprocessor Systems
Jun 2009
This paper presents a helper thread pre-fetching scheme that is designed to work on loosely coupled processors, such as in a standard Chip Multi-Processor (CMP) system or an intelligent memory...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Understanding the Limits of Capacity Sharing in CMP Private Caches
May 2012
Chip Multi Processor (CMP) systems present interesting design challenges at the lower levels of the cache hierarchy. Private L2 caches allow easier processor-cache design reuse, thus scaling...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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Impact of Data Sharing on CMP Design: A Study Based on Analytical Modeling
Jan 2011
Over the past few years, Chip Multi Processor (CMP) architecture has become the dominating hardware architecture across a spectrum of computing machinery - personal computing devices,...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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Data Sharing in MultiThreaded Applications and Its Impact on Chip Design
Feb 2012
Analytical modeling is becoming an increasingly important technique used in the design of chip multiprocessors. Most such models assume multi-programmed workload mixes and either ignore or...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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Energy-Efficient Interconnect Via Router Parking
Dec 2012
The increase in on-chip core counts in Chip MultiProcessors (CMPs) has led to the adoption of interconnects such as Mesh and Torus, which consume an increasing fraction of the chip power....
Provided by Intel
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Flexible Capacity Partitioning in Many-Core Tiled CMPs
Jan 2013
Chip Multi-Processors (CMP) have become a mainstream computing platform. As transistor density shrinks and the number of cores increases, more scalable CMP architectures will emerge. Recently,...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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Whitepapers
Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure on SPARC- A Technical White Paper
Jun 2012
The Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure for SPARC offers the means to consolidate legacy SPARC systems and greatly simplify deployment and management of a virtualized...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
High-Speed Data Transmission in Multi-Layer Deposited Silicon Photonics for Advanced Photonic Networks-on-Chip
Apr 2011
Advanced silicon photonic devices and systems, constructing photonic Networks-on-Chip (NoCs), are slated to be instrumental in enabling new generations of computational parallelism leveraging Chip...
Provided by Columbia University
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Whitepapers
DPSK Modulation Using a Microring Modulator
Apr 2011
As Multi-Core Processors (MCPs) continue to scale in size and complexity, the emerging interconnect-bandwidth bottleneck will have to be resolved by technology that transcends traditional...
Provided by Columbia University
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Whitepapers
Study of Modeling for Scalable and Monitorable Network on Chip
Mar 2012
The performance of multiple processor based on Network on Chip (NoC) is limited to the communication efficiency of network. It is difficult to be optimized of routing and arbitration algorithm and...
Provided by Scientific Research
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Whitepapers
Floating Point Unit Implementation on FPGA
Jun 2012
As densities of FPGA are increasing day by day, the feasibility of doing floating point calculations on FPGAs has improved. Moreover, recent works in FPGA architecture have changed the design...
Provided by IJCER
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Whitepapers
On the Implementation of Multiple-Skip Multiple-Pattern Matching Algorithm Using FPGA Technology
Nov 2008
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have been typically used in industry to prototype digital logic circuit and as a way to achieve cheep, low-volume, custom VLSI, where their reconfigurable...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Case Studies
Intel Xeon Processors Help Capture and Analyze Massive Amounts of Scientific Data From the World's Most Powerful Particle Accelerator
Mar 2009
Several hundred feet beneath the French-Swiss border lies the world's largest, most powerful particle accelerator - the Large Hadron Collider. More than 2,200 researchers from around the globe...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Intel Itanium: A Scalable Platform for Mission-Critical Applications
Apr 2008
IT managers frequently "Inherit" the infrastructure they must manage. Often, that infrastructure is fragmented in information "Silos" that impede the process of virtualization of the server...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Green Embedded Computing and the MPC8536E PowerQUICC III Processor
Jun 2009
Growing energy demands from embedded electronics and increasing evidence of dramatic global climate change are generating greater environmental and cultural pressure for green solutions in...
Provided by Freescale Semiconductor
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White Papers
Using Hardware Performance Counters on Windows
Mar 2009
This paper describes how drivers can safely use hardware performance counters on Windows 7 platforms. Today's processors expose hardware performance counters that count many different events....
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Early Experience With a Commercial Hardware Transactional Memory Implementation
Mar 2009
The author reports on their experience with the Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) feature of two pre-production revisions of a new commercial multicore processor. The author's experience...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
Silicon Photonic WDM Point-to-Point Network for Multi-Chip Processor Interconnects
Apr 2009
Processor performance in instructions per second continues to rise. But the improvement is no longer coming from increasing clock rates due to the associated power, heat and design complexity...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Multithreaded Application Acceleration With Chip Multithreading (CMT), MultiCore/Multithread UltraSPARC Processors: UltraSPARC Processor Applications
Aug 2008
The proliferation of billions of devices - ranging from 3G cell phones to netbook computers - means consumers increasingly demand instantaneous access to information, whether the latest news story...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
Best Practices: Adoption of Symmetric Multiprocessing Using VxWorks and Intel Multi-Core Processors
Jan 2009
Three main trends that are shaping the embedded device market today are smaller form factors, standardization, and improved performance per watt. In addition, applications across all device...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Transforming Business-Critical Infrastructure Through Migration to Itanium-Based Servers: A Decision-Maker's Guide to the Benefits, Challenges, and Available Resources
Nov 2008
Itanium-based servers are changing the face of business-critical computing by delivering enterprise-class scalability and availability on an industry-standard computing architecture that is more...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Implementing Intel vPro Technology to Drive Down Client Management Costs
Dec 2008
Intel IT is in the first year of a multi-year program to deploy and use Intel vPro technology to maintain, manage, and protect the client systems more efficiently and effectively. The author has...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Using the Preprocessor Feature With External Tables in Oracle Database 11g
May 2009
In Oracle 11.1.0.7 (and 10.2.0.5) a new feature has been added to external tables that allows users to preprocess input data before it is sent to the access driver. The ability to manipulate input...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
High-Powered Business Results With Lower Power Costs: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series
Mar 2009
Enterprise data centers meet many needs, from email systems to line-of-business processes, high-performance real-time applications, and SOA initiatives. Deployment models range from stand-alone...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
Orchid Technologies Engineering & Consulting Case Study: Elevator Controller
Jul 2008
The design of Elevator Control Systems presents a unique mix of sophisticated computer control needs blended with industrial strength power switching requirements. Orchid's primary challenge was...
Provided by Orchid Technologies Engineering & Consulting
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White Papers
Introduction to Intel's 32nm Process Technology
Feb 2009
Intel introduces 32nm process technology with second generation high-k + metal gate transistors. This process technology builds upon the tremendously successful 45nm process technology that...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Intel Turbo Boost Technology in Intel Core Microarchitecture (Nehalem) Based Processors
Nov 2008
Intel Core Microarchitecture (Nehalem) based processors incorporate a new feature: Intel Turbo Boost technology. Under some configurations and workloads, Intel Turbo Boost technology enables...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Innovate More, Iterate Faster: Siemens PLM Software, HP, and Intel Deliver Technologies to Revolutionize Your Business
Dec 2007
Siemens PLM Software, HP, and Intel deliver technologies to revolutionize business, enabling to work differently and move from serial to simultaneous workflows. Intel, HP, and Siemens PLM Software...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Meeting Storage Demands for Home, SOHO and SMB Customers: Intel System-on-a-Chip Processors Provide Performance and Cost-Effectiveness for a New Generation of Storage Solutions
Jul 2008
The Intel EP80579 Integrated Processor product line provides a feature-rich solution to the dilemma of designing enterprise-class, affordable storage for the home, SOHO and SMB market segments....
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Improving Manageability With OS Streaming in Training Rooms
Dec 2008
OS streaming can deliver considerable manageability benefits to Intel IT training rooms with multi-user PCs. To evaluate performance and utilization in a production environment, it conducted Proof...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 Accelerator Features
Aug 2008
In recent years there has been a trend towards offloading compute intensive workloads to specialized devices referred to as "Accelerators". These accelerators are used to improve platform...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Virtualization With the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series: A Proof of Concept
Jun 2009
Intel IT, together with Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, End User Platform Integration, and Intel's Software and Services Group, conducted proof-of-concept testing and Total Cost of Ownership...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Packet Processing With Intel Multi-Core Processors: General Purpose Processor Exceeds Network Processor Performance
Jun 2008
In fewer than ten years from now, industry experts are forecasting network capacity demands will grow by a factor of one thousand1. Preparing for this data and bandwidth boom, service providers...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
A Superior Hardware Platform for Server Virtualization: Improving Data Center Flexibility, Performance and TCO With the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series
Mar 2009
Server virtualization is helping IT organizations improve data center productivity in fundamental ways. It lets consolidate multiple operating systems and applications per physical server,...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Stopping Illegal Mobile Phone Usage - With the Latest High Performance Servers
Nov 2008
Mobile phone theft is a growing problem. In the UK a mobile handset is stolen every three minutes, impacting the lives of an estimated two million consumers per year1. When lost and stolen phones...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Improvements in the Intel Core2 Penryn Processor Family Architecture and Microarchitecture
Oct 2008
Intels Corporation continuously seeks to improve the performance of each Intel Architecture microprocessor generation through architectural initiatives as well as process and circuit improvements....
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Utilizing SIMD Instructions on the INtime RTOS With the Intel IPP Library
Mar 2009
Applying DSPs (Digital Signal Processors) to real-time embedded systems can result in significant performance improvements, especially where complex mathematical algorithms are involved....
Provided by TenAsys
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White Papers
Improving Productivity and Reducing Energy Costs and Consumption With Intel vPro Technology
Sep 2008
Cleveland Clinic (the Clinic) has recently changed their asset management approach to a lease vs. buy program across their main campus. As part of their refresh plan, they are acquiring PCs with...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Extreme Programming With Intel vPro Technology: Pushing the Limits With Innovative Software
Dec 2008
Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT) provides a fixed set of out-of-band manageability features that work independently of the operating system (OS) and work even when the computer is...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Virtualization on Itanium: Intel Enables Choice and Flexibility for Customers
Nov 2007
Intel is partnering with a host of virtualization providers to deliver customers as much choice and flexibility as possible on which to run their mission-critical applications. Key virtualization...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Lowering the Point of Sale System Support Costs With Intel vPro Technology
Jan 2009
As POS systems are becoming more powerful and central to retailers, they are increasingly moving on to PC platforms powered by processors such as Intel Core 2 Duo and Low Voltage Intel Core 2 Duo...
Provided by Wipro
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White Papers
An Introduction to the Intel QuickPath Interconnect
Jan 2009
With its high-bandwidth, low-latency characteristics, the Intel QuickPath Interconnect advances the processor bus evolution, unlocking the potential of next-generation microprocessors. The 25.6...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Original 45nm Intel Core 2 Processor Performance
Oct 2008
The 45nm Intels Coret2 family of processors, codename PenrynD, improves upon the performance of Intel Core 2 processors through new microarchitecture features, a larger cache, new instructions,...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Power Improvements on 2008 Desktop Platforms
Oct 2008
This paper presents platform- and silicon component power data that demonstrate advances in desktop platform power management enabled on 2008 platforms, built with the Intel Q45 Express Chipset,...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Cisco Unified Computing System Extended Memory Technology Overview
Mar 2009
The processor, memory, and I/O are three of the most important subsystems in a server. All are critical to a server's workload performance and reliability. At any given point, one of these...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
DELL | EMC CX4 Series Arrays Overview: Featuring Ultraflex Technology
Aug 2008
The CX4 is the fourth generation of the CX series and continues Dell and EMC's commitment to helping customers maximize their investments in storage technology by helping to ensure that existing...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Consolidating DSS Workloads on Dell PowerEdge 11G Servers Using Oracle 11g Database Replay
Apr 2009
Any server consolidation project must be preceded by a well-planned effort to predict the energy consumption and performance capacity of the new platform as compared to the legacy environment....
Provided by Dell
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Whitepapers
Scheduling of Precedence Constrained Task Graphs on Multiprocessor Systems
Jun 2012
Efficient scheduling of computationally intensive program is one of the most essential and most difficult issues to achieve high performance in a parallel computing. Finding an optimal solution...
Provided by Kurukshetra University
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Whitepapers
Design and Implementation of a Dynamic CORDIC Processor
Dec 2010
This paper presents a Dynamic CORDIC Processor that uses variable radices for trigonometric function computation. The CORDIC algorithm is a well known hardware algorithm for computing various...
Provided by Kurukshetra University
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Case Studies
Odebrecht Oil and Gas Makes Its Mobile Staff More Productive With Dell Latitude Laptops
May 2009
Odebrecht Oil and Gas needed a sturdy, light-weight laptop to meet the needs of business users in offices and engineers in the field. The company wanted to stretch the amount of time machines...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Online Editing House Scribendi Grows 57 Percent in Two Years With the Help of Powerful Client and Server Infrastructure From Dell
Jul 2009
The Scribendi management team was ready to implement an aggressive five-year expansion plan, and wanted the company's IT infrastructure to be ready to keep pace. Scribendi used Dell PowerEdge...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Intel Processors Help Sample Digital Accelerate Media Processing, Consolidate Servers, and Deliver HD Video to Executives
Jul 2009
Shuttling media among Hollywood studio departments can be costly and chaotic. Sample Digital offers production workflow and media management tools to help studios, networks, production companies,...
Provided by Intel
