As technology scales toward deeper submicron, the integration of a large number of IP blocks on the same silicon die is becoming realistic, thus enabling large-scaling parallel computations such as ...

Today, businesses want a high-performance system to be fast and efficient. E-commerce, financial services, streaming ...

Open Core Protocol (OCP) [1][2] is a common standard for Intellectual Property (IP)core interfaces. OCP facilitates IP core plug-and-play and simplifies reuse by decoupling the cores from the on-chip ...

In today’s digital economy, high-scale applications must perform flawlessly, even during peak demand periods. With modern caching strategies, organizations can deliver high-speed experiences at scale.

Researchers have developed a new system for data center caching that uses flash memory, the kind of memory used in most smartphones. Most modern websites store data in databases, and since database ...

The reasons for these slowdowns can vary depending on the SSD and wider system it's connected to, but for cheaper flash ...

The i7 supports the x86-64 instruction set architecture, a 64-bit extension of the 80×86 architecture. The i7 is an out-of-order execution processor that includes four cores. In this chapter, we focus ...

Most modern websites store data in databases, and since database queries are relatively slow, most sites also maintain so-called cache servers, which list the results of common queries for faster ...