A number of people reported that the PDF slides for my Machine Architecture talk were offline. It turns out that the NWCPP servers were recently moved and the link temporarily broken, but it’s now been restored. Links: Google video PDF slides (back again)
Archive for February, 2010
Machine Architecture slides back online
Posted in Concurrency, Hardware, Software Development on 2010-02-22 | 2 Comments »
Igor Ostrovsky and the Seven Cache Effects
Posted in Concurrency, Hardware, Software Development on 2010-02-15 | 1 Comment »
My colleague Igor Ostrovsky has written a useful summary of seven cache memory effects that every advanced developer should know about because of their performance impact, particularly as we strive to keep invisible bottlenecks out of parallel code. I’ve covered variations of Igor’s examples #1, #2, #3, and #6 in my Machine Architecture talk and [...]