Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

I presented a keynote for Sun at Supercomputing 2003 in Phoenix Arizona and included the slide shown below. CXL is a memory protocol, as shown in the third block in my diagram from 2003, and provides cache coherent latency around 200ns, and up to 2 meters maximum distance. This topic needs further research and additional blog posts!

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This article Threads Done Right… With Tcl gives an excellent overview of these capabilities and it should be clear that to build a scalable benchmarking tool this thread performance and scalability is key. Virtual Users within HammerDB are operating system threads. You can download and compile TCL/TK 8.6

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems. This weekends back-to-basics reading is on operating system virtualization. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 20 July 2012 12:00 PM. Comments (). Malo, France.

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Operating System Virtualization Systems Hardware 74

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Jul - 13 Hints for Computer Systems Design Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001.

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Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 131

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Subsystem / Path The ​​ I/O subsystem or path ​​ includes ​​ those ​​ components ​​ that are ​​ used to support an I/O operation. ​​ Also, it ​​ is ​​ generally impractical on a production system.

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Servers Cache Database Media 40

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52