Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...

At the heart of every PC is a storage drive, which stores the Microsoft Windows operating system and also contains space for your personal data, documents, photos, and applications. Regardless of ...

Disk partitioning–separating one physical hard drive into multiple independent volumes–can relieve all sorts of computer-related headaches, and thanks to the Disk Management tool included with Windows ...

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss partitioning with Raymond Nijssen, vice president of system engineering at Achronix; Andy Ladd, CEO at Baum; Dave Kelf, chief marketing officer at Breker; ...

Examine any smartphone design today and most of the electronic circuitry is “off” most of the time. And regardless of how many processor cores are available, it’s rare to use more than a couple of ...

This paper presents a new hardware/software partitioning methodology for SoCs. Target architecture is composed of a RISC host and one or more configurable microprocessors. First, a system is ...

Editor’s note (1/12/10): For more-current advice, see “How (and Why) to Partition Your Hard Drive.” No matter the capacity of your PC’s hard drive, chances are that it’s set up to function as one ...