Explores memory consistency, cache coherence, and relaxed models in modern CPUs, emphasizing the balance between strict ordering and flexible memory operations.
Explores the landscape of big data, memory importance in online services, challenges faced by memory systems, emerging DRAM technologies, and storage-class memory.
Explores multithreading in computer architecture, focusing on pipeline utilization and performance impact in various techniques, including blocked and fine-grained multithreading.
Explores the impact of locality on system design, discussing strategies to optimize efficiency and performance through data layout, lock design, and data movement minimization.