Until recently, an explanation of memory management would have amounted to a description of a computer’s virtual memory implementation. Now however, memory management encompasses organizing frequently ...

A new technical paper titled “PIM-MMU: A Memory Management Unit for Accelerating Data Transfers in Commercial PIM Systems” was published by researchers at KAIST. “Processing-in-memory (PIM) has ...

By reverse-engineering the Target Row Refresh (TRR) mechanisms that have thus far protected DDR5 RAM against bit flips, ...

The CPU and the GPU share access to some pages of memory. New Linux code helps the kernel keep track of memory holding data for the GPU. The management of video hardware has long been an area of ...

IOMMU or Input-Output Memory Management Unit, is a primary component in the Memory Management System of modern-day computing devices, responsible for handling memory management requests from hardware ...

Memory management on Linux systems is complicated. Seeing high usage doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a problem. There are other things you should also consider. Running out of memory on a Linux ...

The processors in today’s computers have grown tremendously in performance, capabilities and complexity over the past decade. Clock speed has skyrocketed, and size has dwindled, even as the number of ...