If you’ve wondered what a preamplifier is, what it exactly does, and whether your audio setup is missing one, we’ve got the ...

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research ...

Memory swizzling is the quiet tax that every hierarchical-memory accelerator pays. It is fundamental to how GPUs, TPUs, NPUs, ...

What is the issue with the HTML Standard? Chrome currently passes both 'Purpose: prefetch' and 'Sec-Purpose: prefetch' headers as part of prefetch through speculation ...

What is SuperFetch and How Does it Work? SuperFetch is a feature that was first rolled out with Windows Vista. It runs in the background, continuously evaluating RAM usage footprints and tracking the ...

The disk I/O calls that the prefetch thread makes are serviced by the prefetch library, which maintains a prefetch queue that stores the addresses of the file blocks to be prefetched. Each prefetch ...

Abstract: Cellular network enables pervasive data access, but it also increases the power consumption of smartphones due to the long tail problem, where the cellular interface has to stay in the ...

In this article, we will discuss the MUI and PF files in Windows computers. Both MUI and PF are file extensions. These files are located in the root directory of the Windows OS. In the Windows ...

What do we mean by success? For each individual, the answer will be slightly different. For some people, success is money; for others, it’s about recognition. When I was sitting on a staircase many ...

High-performance processors employ hardware data prefetching to reduce the negative performance impact of large main memory latencies. An effective prefetching mechanism can improve cache hit rate ...

We introduce CrossPrefetch, a novel cross-layered I/O prefetching mechanism that operates across the OS and a user-level runtime to achieve optimal performance. Existing OS prefetching mechanisms ...