Is there someone who can give a relatively simple rundown of the new technology called "transactional memory"? Why is this kind of memory starting to pop up now (Blue Gene/Q, POWER8, Haswell,…) and ...
At Hot Chips last week, IBM talked about BlueGene/Q, the processor powering the 20 petaflops Sequoia supercomputer. Designed for power-efficient floating point processing, the processor has one ...