One of the major advantages of virtualization is the ability to dynamically add CPU and RAM to running virtual machines. Have a box that gets a sudden spike? Add more RAM on the fly and let it go.

[Bruce Land] of Cornell University will be a familiar name to many Hackaday readers, searching the site for ‘ECE4760′ will bring up many interesting topics around embedded programming. Every year ...

Google's Cloud unit on Thursday announced a new family of virtual machine offerings that it claims can offer large percentage improvements in performance and economics for the biggest cloud workloads ...

Hyper-V automatically optimizes NUMA placement, reducing manual tuning needs in virtual machine deployments. Adding virtual processors only helps when CPU bottlenecks exist and workloads can use them.

In Arthur C. Clarke’s 1972 story “Dial F for Frankenstein”, the worlds first global network of phone exchanges was created by satellite link, and events happened that caused the characters in the ...

Extra processing power also lets users multitask more effectively. For example, one core could be used for surfing the Web, while the second core is handling an anti-virus scan. (Processor affinity ...

In the area of cloud computing, i.e. on-demand access to IT resources via the internet, so-called trusted execution environments (TEEs) play a major role. They are designed to ensure that the data on ...

Technology innovations are continuously impact the Internet, applications, and services. Internet traffic is rapidly expanding and becoming more varied and complex ...

The VPMC module stands for Virtual CPU Performance Monitoring Counters in VMware. These counters monitor and measure the performance of virtual CPUs within a virtual machine (VM). If you see Module ...

AMD's virtualization extensions I think are pretty much on all their CPUs. The Zen+ (2xxx) CPUs right are getting bigger discounts as Zen2 is coming up on release in a few months. So a good time to ...