Virtual memory is a valuable concept in computer architecture that allows you to run large, sophisticated programs on a computer even if it has a relatively small amount of RAM. A computer with ...

Memory can be a tricky term in the computer world. There is random access memory (RAM), and hard drive space is often described as memory. To make things a little more confusing, the process of using ...

Programs that hold all data in memory for processing. Almost all spreadsheets are memory based so that a change in data at one end of the spreadsheet can be instantly reflected at the other end. In a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Covering Digital Storage Technology & Market. IEEE President in 2024 I had an opportunity late in 2021 to do a virtual roundtable ...

Virtual memory, also known as the swap file, uses part of your hard drive to effectively expand your RAM, allowing you to run more programs than it could otherwise handle. But a hard drive is much ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

At Nividia's GPU Technology Conference last week, I was surprised to see both how far graphics and GPU technology is moving?on the desktop and in mobile devices?and how the way people write software ...

As I've noted in the two previous installments in this series, Windows 10's Hyper-V platform is the ideal way to test-drive a new feature update before trusting it to production hardware. If you've ...