Posts Tagged ‘Processor’

A new kind of virtualization

There are plenty of virtualization technologies. There are organizations like VMware, VirtualBox and XEN, whose virtualization allows one to run several virtual computers using one physical computer. I worked at a company called ScaleMP. ScaleMP’s technology, vSMP, turns multiple physical computers into one large computer. Today I was looking for something different. I was looking […]

New article – 32bit vs 64bit computers, the QA

This article describes the difference between the two. Does getting 64-bit support really worth the time and the effort and perhaps the the money? Find out here.

32bit vs 64bit computers, the QA

Table of contents Introduction What 64-bit support mean? What the difference between the 32-bit and 64-bit anyway? General purpose registers What additional registers good for? So how good 64-bit really is? What about OS and software? Does that mean that paying extra money for 64-bit Windows XP/Vista worth it? How about Linux? IntroductionBACK TO TOC […]

Aligned vs. unaligned memory access

Table of contents Introduction What 64-bit support mean? What the difference between the 32-bit and 64-bit anyway? General purpose registers What additional registers good for? So how good 64-bit really is? What about OS and software? Does that mean that paying extra money for 64-bit Windows XP/Vista worth it? How about Linux? Introduction The theory […]