New applications that servers must handle are often large and function-rich; they use many operating system services and access large databases. Not only does that make the instruction and data ...

James Laudon is one of the authors, along with Kunle Olukotun and Lance Hammond, of the Chip Multiprocessor Architecture: Techniques to Improve Throughput and Latency book from Morgan & Claypool ...

A new multithreading architecture called MIPS MT ASE (multithreading architecture extensions) comes by way of MIPS Technologies. It provides coarse-grain and fine-grain multithreading support on a ...

For applications with a fine-grained parallelism, multithreading is one of the most generic ways to exploit multicores, said Luc Burgun, CEO of Emulation and Verification Engineering (EVE) SA ...