Expansion buses are connections that allow peripheral controllers to use system resources, such as hard disks, memory and I/O space, and audio/video hardware. The most commonly used expansion bus in ...

In typical PCIe based systems, PCIe busses are enumerated and resources allocated to each PCIe endpoint device during system initialization. Due to limitations in the enumeration and resource ...

For memory-intensive and high-performance computing, direct memory access (DMA) is indispensable. A typical DMA operation in PCI Express (PCIe) entails the transfer of data from the system memory to ...

Multicast, a technique commonly used in networking systems, allows a given processing unit to send a single data stream to multiple destinations at the same time efficiently. Typically, the switch ...

A Redditor who enjoys experimenting with old hardware and ancient operating systems recently tried a small but clever ...

We've jumped many chasms over the past three decades of server-based computing. In the 1990s, we went from single-socket standalone servers to clusters. Then with the millennium, we first saw ...