Questions tagged [cpu-architecture]

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Install correct libraries depending on 64/32 bit

I am using Bash to install a customised version of JBoss, and one of the things I would like to do is install the correct version of the Apache Portable Runtime, which is a native binary. This script could be run on both 32 and 64 bit versions of…
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RAM: Quad channel and Single/Dual Rank RAM?

I am struggeling to understand the link between Rank and Channel As far as I understand e.g. E5-2680V4 supports Quad channel, means can access 4 channels simultaneously, which results in optimal cases into 4x the bandwidth of one RAM module Means…
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Can CPUs run with constant boosted speed?

My default AWS server CPU speed is 2.5GHz but somehow I did manage to boost it to 3.1GHz. However, when I run watch -n.1 'cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i mhz' they are not constantly working with 3.1GHz. They are changing rapidly between 2.5GHz-3.1GHz…
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Does Minikube (or Kubernetes) need CPU-virtualisation instructions to orchestrate Docker containers?

I am looking to learn Kubernetes, specifically from this resource. I only want to run Docker containers, rather than full-fat VMs. It says that I need any of these as a base from which to work: Docker Desktop kind Minikube I have plumped for…
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Obtaining the CPU L2 shared memory percentual of usage on Linux machine

On Linux based systems, how can I estimate or maybe read the CPU L2 shared memory % of usage?
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What is a dual-core processor and how is it different form single core?

In what ways are dual-core processors different from single core processor ? Are dual core processors different form multi-processors ? If yes, then how ? What are logical and physical CPUs ?
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Amazon G2 not giving a much better computing performance than my laptop CPU

I have a Java console application that performs Reed-Solomon error correction on large volumes of data (~700 MB at a time), just to test performance. The application is multithreaded, I can see it gives 100% occupancy on all cores when run. On my…
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Why do I need six cores in a cpu for a server?

I was getting specs for dell server and one cpu is an Intel Xeon with 6 cores, another 4 cores. What am I getting with this? Do I need six cores? What does that give me? I don't know what mult-core cpus give me but that's about all I can…
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Why is a 32bit OS limited to 4 GigaBytes of RAM?

What I don't understand is where the 4 GigaBytes comes from. Most of the articles I read say that 2^32bits = 4 GigaBytes, but this doesn't seem correct given that 8 bits = 1 byte. For a 32 bit OS: 2^32 = 4,294,967,295 bits = 4.2 Giga bits =…
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