2008 Design Operating System 
Adrian Cockcroft
JANUARY 27, 2025
It was clearly far better hardware than we could build, had a proper full featured operating system on it, and as soon as it shipped, people figured out how to jailbreak it and program it. In September 2008 Netflix ran an internal hack day event. The code is still up on github.
Adrian Cockcroft
OCTOBER 23, 2024
However they own the architecture, so if you want to do something fundamentally different, extend the basic designs for a specific use case, dont want to pay licensing fees to ARM, or get into legal battles with them , people are looking for alternatives. Thats where RISC-V comes in.
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Alex Russell
AUGUST 30, 2021
Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? From 2008 to 2013, the Chrome project was based on WebKit, and a growing team of Chrome engineers began to contribute heavily "upstream." If no, please explain why not.
PDC
APRIL 14, 2019
This is vividly reflected in the design on the Titan supercomputer , which is still among the world’s top 10 most powerful supercomputers (as of the November 2018 Top500 list). This is also commonly known as “double precision” on many computer systems. The Top500 list (Nov 2018). Statistics for (co-)processors.
John McCalpin
APRIL 2, 2020
The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).
Percona
JUNE 4, 2023
MariaDB is a popular SQL open source relational database management system that originated as a fork of MySQL after MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 and later Oracle in 2010. It supports multiple operating systems and platforms, making it an ideal choice for various applications. What is MySQL?
John McCalpin
APRIL 2, 2020
The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).
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