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The VELOX research project
This is the third of three blog articles describing how AMD’s Operating System Research Center (OSRC) became involved in the development of the Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF), how we are evaluating ASF, and how this and other activities fit into … Continue reading
Evaluation of the Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF)
In a previous entry on the Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF), my colleague Michael pointed you to the current ASF specification proposal and showed some nifty use-cases for the feature. In this blog entry I’ll try to make this a little … Continue reading
Just released: Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) specification
Recently AMD released an experimental specification for a proposed AMD64 architecture feature that may be of interest to all programmers of highly concurrent programs, libraries, runtimes, and operating systems: Advanced Synchronization Facility, or ASF for short. This is the first … Continue reading
Introducing the AMD Operating System Research Center Blog
Hello from AMD’s OSRC. Let me give a brief introduction of who we are and what our job at AMD is. Founded one and a half years ago, we have grown to a team size of roughly two dozen people, … Continue reading
