Benchmarking Hardware Innovation 
ACM Sigarch
APRIL 2, 2025
To create a CPU core that can execute a large number of instructions in parallel, it is necessary to improve both the architecturewhich includes the overall CPU design and the instruction set architecture (ISA) designand the microarchitecture, which refers to the hardware design that optimizes instruction execution.
Percona
JUNE 22, 2023
Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.
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Brendan Gregg
MARCH 16, 2024
It was also a virtual machine that lacked low-level hardware profiling capabilities, so I wasn't able to do cycle analysis to confirm that the 10% was entirely frame pointer-based. and we may have been flying close to the edge of hardware cache warmth, where adding a bit more instructions caused a big drop.
The Morning Paper
JUNE 27, 2019
Systems researchers are doing an excellent job improving the performance of 5-year old benchmarks, but gradually making it harder to explore innovative machine learning research ideas. Worse, the resulting brake on innovation in languages is in itself reducing the incentive for back-end developers to improve on the current situation.
Percona
AUGUST 22, 2023
Some of the most important elements include: No single point of failure (SPOF): You must eliminate any SPOF in the database environment, including any potential for an SPOF in physical or virtual hardware. Redundancy provides backups and safeguards against data loss in case of hardware failures. there cannot be high availability.
Percona
JULY 1, 2023
Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Doing extensive benchmarks will be the subject of a future blog post. In any case, you should benchmark both RDS MySQL and Aurora before taking the decision to migrate.
ACM Sigarch
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Over the last two decades, processor designers have extracted significant performance by leveraging architectural solutions and process innovations. The low power dissipation and higher density of CMOS enabled the architectural innovations of the last few decades which led to the single thread improvements seen in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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