Computer Architecture

Power consumption data
We got some new boxes recently, and did some measurements on them; you can find this and earlier data on <http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/computer-power-consumption.html>: First, our new server: Dual Xeon 5160 (Socket 771, 3GHz, dual core, 4MB L2 cache), Supermicro X7DBE+ board with on-board graphics (A... 9 Jan 2007 16:45

Software vs Hardware
Hello Comrades, I propose the following Premise: It seems to me that much of the features that would benefit the average user of a computer could be better implemented in hardware than in software. Currently most of these features (multimedia, networking/communication) are implemented as software applications. ... 26 Dec 2006 02:20

Multiple mappings
nmm1(a)cus.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) writes: Let us exclude the matter of zero-initialised pages, and concentrate on ordinary physical pages mapped to two different virtual addresses in a SINGLE address space. My belief is that almost all systems permit this, but it is an essentially unused facility, for ver... 3 Jan 2007 10:25

Major differences between MIPS and ARM
Hi, Could anyone give me some differences between MIPS and the ARM architecture. I am not looking for very low (close to hardware) level information but just to know which architecture has/lacks what features. Thanks in advance. ... 23 Dec 2006 21:16

First Next-Gen CELL Processor: 2 PPEs - 32 SPEs - at least 1 Teraflop
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36335 latest Cell Roadmap http://img445.imageshack.us/img445/7706/cell2007pw6.jpg "During a recent event IBM has unveiled a few details on Cell roadmap.As you can see Cell will be manufactured at 65nm during next year and a next gen version of the chip is expected... 19 Dec 2006 02:13

Core 2 Duo T7200 versus Core 2 Duo T7600
I'm hoping I'm in the right newsgroup here. I'm in the market to purchase a DELL XPS. The desired processor is Core 2 Duo. I'm torn between the T7200 and the T7600. The fundamental difference between the Core 2 Duo T7200 versus the Core 2 Duo T7600 surrounds the Frequency ( 2000 Mhz ( 7200 ) versus 2333 ( 76... 1 Jan 2007 17:04

array processor question
Hi, I can't find answer to this little question, have array processors a pipelined arithmetic unit ? I was looking for 2 hours on google and didn't find anything. I know vector processors do have these, but dunno about array processors, I'd be thankful to hear the answer. ... 17 Dec 2006 05:23

Value of PIC? (was New fully open ISA challenges)
Ken Hagan wrote: I'd be disappointed to lose the benefits of position-independent code just because some folks abuse strcpy(). What are the advantages of PIC, especially in embedded systems? What are considered acceptable methods for supporting PIC? (E.g., I was thinking of having PC-relative jumps/branche... 11 Dec 2006 07:11

nonlinear pipeline delay improving
Hi. I want to investigate is there any solution for a nonlinear pipeline that could we improving MAL by delay improving or not? and are there any solution that where we must add these delays and how many delay state we must add to our reservation table? are there any idea?! thnks ... 5 Dec 2006 08:52

help with homework (plz guys)
hi guys i have been trying to find this information everywhere but i cant find it. is it possible to list factors of bus preformance and some details of them. i know its rude to ask for help on homework but i cant find the information and teacher wont answer my emails. thanks in advance ... 30 Nov 2006 08:15