Described herein is a method and an apparatus for training a memory signal via an error signal of a memory. The method comprises transmitting from a memory controller a command-address (C/A) signal to a memory module; determining by the memory contro…

An improved memory model and implementation is disclosed. The memory model includes a Total Store Ordering (TSO) and Partial Store Ordering (PSO) memory model to provide a partial order for the memory operations which are issued by multiple processor…

A method and apparatus for executing lock instructions speculatively in an out-of-order processor are disclosed. In one embodiment, a prediction is made whether a given lock instruction will actually be contended. If not, then the lock instruction ma…

A data processor (104) is described. The data processor (104) is capable of decoding and executing a first instruction (212) of a first instruction set and a second instruction (213-219) in a second instruction set wherein the first instruction (212)…

A microprocessor contains an address generation unit, including a segment block, for loading descriptor data and a segment selector in a segment register. Two descriptor loads from a global descriptor table (GDT) and a local descriptor table (LDT) ar…

A method and apparatus for verification of coherence for shared cache components in a system verification environment are provided. With the method and apparatus, stores to the cache are applied to a cache functional simulator in the order that they…

A method and apparatus for a atomic operation is described. A method comprises receiving a first program unit in a parallel computing environment, the first program unit including a memory update operation to be performed atomically, the memory updat…

A computer-implemented method and apparatus in a computer system of processing data generated by a first application program in a second application program during runtime. During runtime, the first application program generates a record including a…

An apparatus comprising a plurality of storage nodes comprising a plurality of corresponding storage disks and configured to store data in a distributed manner between the storage disks that achieves a Redundant Array of Independent Disks-0 (RAID0) l…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_leak In computer science, a memory leak is a type of resource leak that occurs when a computer program incorrectly manages memory allocations[1] in such a way that memory which is no longer needed is not released.…