Abstract: 64-bit processor architectures like the Intel/spl reg/ Itanium/spl reg/ processor family are designed for large applications that need large memory addresses. When running applications that ...

Abstract: Memory performance is an important design issue for contemporary systems given the ever increasing memory gap. This paper proposes a space-efficient Java object model for reducing the memory ...

The big picture: On January 19, 2038, at 03:14:07 UTC, certain Unix-based computer systems will encounter a critical timekeeping failure. Due to a software flaw known as the "Y2K38 bug," 32-bit ...

Names have been reserved for VIP players, and the new Lord of the Rings Online 64-bit servers are scheduled to launch in just a few hours at 1 PM EST today. Sounds great, doesn't it? There's one ...

If you want a CPU that has the floating point performance of a GPU, all you have to do is wait six or so years and the CPU roadmaps can catch up. This seems like a long time to wait, which is why so ...

Yesterday, the developers from Standing Stone Games took to Twitch and Youtube to finally let their Lord of the Rings Online playerbase off the tenterhooks we’ve been on since the Letter to the ...

For most people, you turn on your computer, and it starts the operating system. However, the reality is much more complex as [Thasso] discovered. Even modern x86 chips start in 16-bit real mode and ...

What just happened? Despite its advanced age and competition from more recent similar titles, Team Fortress 2 is as big as ever and still receives essential updates. The latest patch significantly ...