The following excerpt is from chapter 3, User-Level Memory Management, of Arnold Robbins’ book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, Prentice Hall PTR; (April 12, 2004), used with permission ...

Some techies are capable of writing programs in assembler, but all will agree that they are very glad that they don’t need to. More know that they are fully capable of writing programs which manage ...

Persistent memory (PM) used to be the norm when magnetic core memory was ubiquitous, but volatile DRAM now dominates main memory. While non-volatile memory (NVM) is used for booting and application ...

Intel Xeon Phi processors have two features that I believe we will see in more and more designs for HPC systems in the future: high bandwidth memory, and options for subdividing the many cores into ...

The White House has called on the tech industry to adopt memory safe programming languages, eliminating most memory safety vulnerabilities from hardware and software. The report by the Office of the ...

Microsoft aims to replace its legacy C and C++ code with the Rust programming language across its largest codebases by the ...

A partnership program between the UNO School of Music and the UNMC Department of Neurological Sciences is studying how music ...