Soft Machines' goal with Variable Instruction Set Computing (VISC) is to break through the efficiency barriers that have prevented modern chips from realizing great architectural improvements. The ...

[Bruce Land] of Cornell University will be a familiar name to many Hackaday readers, searching the site for ‘ECE4760′ will bring up many interesting topics around embedded programming. Every year ...

One of the major advantages of virtualization is the ability to dynamically add CPU and RAM to running virtual machines. Have a box that gets a sudden spike? Add more RAM on the fly and let it go.

In the area of cloud computing, i.e. on-demand access to IT resources via the internet, so-called trusted execution environments (TEEs) play a major role. They are designed to ensure that the data on ...

In Arthur C. Clarke’s 1972 story “Dial F for Frankenstein”, the worlds first global network of phone exchanges was created by satellite link, and events happened that caused the characters in the ...

The VPMC module stands for Virtual CPU Performance Monitoring Counters in VMware. These counters monitor and measure the performance of virtual CPUs within a virtual machine (VM). If you see Module ...

Well, thats because I didn't do Comp Sci.<BR><BR>Anyway this thread Higher frequency != more heat? has the following two posts in them that I am trying to mix ...