SIEVE is a new approach to web caching that's simpler and more effective than today's state-of-the-art algorithms, its creators claim — and big tech companies are taking notice. When you purchase ...

Apart from main memory and disk drives, modern computers are equipped with multiple levels of cache, in order to bridge the gap between the CPU's processing speed and the access latency of main memory ...

At AWS, where system efficiency directly impacts millions of customers and operational costs, Vignesh Natarajan's groundbreaking optimization of the dangling pointer evaluation algorithm stands as a ...

The evolution from chip to system-on-chip (SoC) has brought value to both the engineering community and end users. With the move to greater complexity, problems that were once isolated to individual ...

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

Tech speak can give us all a headache sometimes. Every day in the digital age, it seems we have a new phrase to contend with that describes the intricate workings of a website. How can we be expected ...

Caching makes your RAID array go faster. But if you lose power your data can be corrupted. The old solution: a battery. The new and better solution: flash memory - with a twist. Disks are about 1 ...

Mashable’s series Algorithms explores the mysterious lines of code that increasingly control our lives — and our futures. “The Algorithm” is impenetrable. It’s mysterious, it’s all-knowing, it’s ...