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Instruction-Based Sampling (IBS) is a performance monitoring technique that provides precise information about AMD64 instruction fetch behavior and about the execution of operations that are issued from…

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Back in June, AMD Developer Central published a feature article detailing, for the first time, AMD’s SSE128 extensions (aka ‘FP128′) for the Barcelona processor platform. With the…

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Working on the AMD Performance Library, our life is SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data). An 8-bit add operation takes one cycle; doing sixteen 8-bit add operations using…

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The new shared L3 cache featured in AMD “Barcelona” processors is considered by many platform level software developers to be one of the two most important features…

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To use or not to use CPUID, that is the question. CPUID is an instruction that tells you what features of a processor are supported. This instruction…

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I decided I needed to rebuild my Windows cluster to test out some automation work I was doing. In rebuilding the nodes and configuring MOSS (Microsoft Office…

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The new AMD “Barcelona” processors, also known as Family 10h, and including Third-Generation AMD OpteronTM processors, contain an array of innovations in processor design and features, including…

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Welcome to the AMD Libraries blog, which comes direct to you from the AMD Performance Libraries team. Here, we will discuss emerging trends, best practices and insider…

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While installing and testing a couple of variations of SharePoint 2007 I doscovered that my services were not starting and running correctly. Upon further inspection of the…

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–>One of the nice but dangerous things about assembly language is its virtual lack of any kind of type checking. If you are optimizing C code by…

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