The word 'architectures' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a style of building or a system structurally organized according to logical or aesthetic principles. For example, you could say "The ancient Greek architectures have inspired modern-day architects around the world."
For most computer tasks, there were then few gains to be had from upgrading to multi-core architectures.
It has something to do with "Darwinian reference architectures", she suggests, and also with "modularising" and "integrating", as well as with lots of "enabling" and "processes".
Systems with vertically integrated components such as the mainframe computer tend to give way to architectures with separate horizontal layers such as the personal computer.
Certain sorts of polymer can be engineered to be "bistable"—ie, have two different molecular architectures that are both stable.
Limiting the scope of the problems they try to solve simplifies the developers' work in tuning their parallel architectures for optimum performance.
Some proposed ad hoc architectures, he says, include micro-payment schemes to ensure that everybody pulls their weight.Another difficulty is agreeing on protocols; ad hoc will work only if devices are ubiquitous, and support an agreed standard.
PCM memory, which IBM hopes will be on sale by 2016, would be able to serve simultaneously as storage and working memory—a new category it calls "storage-class memory".This in turn could open the door to new computer architectures in which information does not have to be shuffled from relatively slow storage devices to much faster working memory.
The reaction in France was more muted, perhaps because the agreement carefully avoids any of the visionary language about European architectures that excites French imaginations, but which many British Conservatives, such as the defence secretary, Liam Fox, viscerally loathe.In fact, most of the objections raised seem either ignorant or anachronistic.
Yet the idea went nowhere, and the company set up by Toshiba to promote other uses of the Emotion Engine was closed down.Extravagant claims were also made about the RISC, POWER and Transmeta architectures, notes Dean McCarron, a chip analyst at Mercury Research in Scottsdale, Arizona.
A host of American firms is pursuing innovative wireless technologies, including smart antennae, Internet-like "mesh" network architectures and devices that bridge the gap between computer and handset.
All capitalist systems operate within legal, financial and constitutional architectures.
