Why modern CPUs are starving and what can be done about it

Computing in Science and Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 68-71

  Alted, Francesc ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

CPU performance; I O bottleneck; Memory speed; Multlicore computing; Processor speed

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING PROCESSORS; I/O BOTTLENECK; MEMORY SPEED; POOR PERFORMANCE;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

SPEED;

EID: 77949961607     PISSN: 15219615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2010.51     Document Type: Article

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