Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 petaflops, which is 0.8% of peak capacity.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

All of the SPECfp_rate2000 results were downloaded from www.spec.org, the results were sorted by processor type, and “peak floating-point operations per cycle” was manually added for each processor type. This includes all architectures, all compilers, all operating systems, and all system configurations.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This guide to HammerDB concepts and architectures is aimed at helping you understand how HammerDB is built and how it can be extended and modified. Virtual Users within HammerDB are operating system threads. Programming Languages. Virtual Users. Output from virtual users are displayed to the virtual user output window.

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Capability integrity prevents direct in-memory manipulation of architectural capability encodings. At hardware reset the boot code is granted maximally permissive architectural capabilities. faster for system calls). For a macro-benchmark PostgreSQL’s initdb tool was used. slower to 9.8% PostgreSQL runs 6.8%

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

All of the SPECfp_rate2000 results were downloaded from www.spec.org, the results were sorted by processor type, and “peak floating-point operations per cycle” was manually added for each processor type. This includes all architectures, all compilers, all operating systems, and all system configurations.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 40

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

This metric is interesting because we don’t always have the luxury of parallelizing every application we run, and our operating systems almost always process each call (e.g., GHz, 1530 GB/s peak BW from 6 HBM stacks), I see single-thread sustained memory bandwidth of 304 GB/s on the ReadOnly benchmark used here.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 40

PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

It ranks the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers based on their performance as measured by the Linpack benchmark. The Top500 list website also provides list statistics for different categories like processor generations, geographical regions, operating systems, and so on. You may have heard of the Top500 list.

Energy 40

Energy Benchmarking Efficiency Website 40

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) Deployment Aurora’s Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) deployment offers remarkably high availability and fault tolerance by automatically replicating data across multiple availability zones using its distributed storage architecture to eliminate single points of failure. Learn more here!

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

Well, performance comparisons aren’t so easy since the AppFabric license agreement states: “You may not disclose the results of any benchmark tests of the software to any third party without Microsoft’s prior written approval.” Testing Scale-Up Performance.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

SQL Server always checks I/O completion status for any operating system error conditions and proper data transfer size and then handles errors appropriately. Torn pages generally arise after system outages where the subsystem does not complete the entire 8-KB I/O request. This utility is located on the Microsoft Web site.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice. In general, Egnyte connect architecture shards and caches data at different levels based on: Amount of data. SOA architecture based on REST APIs. Edge caching.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52