Explores historical perspectives and mechanisms of transactional memory, emphasizing the importance and challenges of its implementation in modern computing systems.
Explores scalable synchronization mechanisms for many-core operating systems, focusing on the challenges of handling data growth and regressions in OS.
Covers neuromorphic computing, challenges in ternary and binary computing, hardware simulations of the brain, and new materials for artificial brain cells.
Explores parallelism in programming, emphasizing trade-offs between programmability and performance, and introduces shared memory parallel programming using OpenMP.
Explores challenges and solutions for data center processors, focusing on efficiency, cache issues, branch prediction, and architectural optimizations.
Covers energy dissipation in VLSI chips, focusing on subthreshold current in NMOS transistors and the effects of threshold voltage on power consumption.
