The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

There is a potential benefit in reusing the hardware in place for video compression/decompression. Image decoding in hardware may not be a primary motivator, given the peculiarities of OS dependent UI composition, and architectural implications of moving uncompressed image pixels around.

Code 220

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 220

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

So we need low latency, but we also need very high throughput: A recurring theme in IDS/IPS literature is the gap between the workloads they need to handle and the capabilities of existing hardware/software implementations. The baseline for comparison is Snort 3.0 , “the most powerful IPS in the world” according to the Snort website.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

Amazon SageMaker training supports powerful container management mechanisms that include spinning up large numbers of containers on different hardware with fast networking and access to the underlying hardware, such as GPUs. This can all be done without touching a single line of code.

Scalability 129

Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 129

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. In the figure below, you can see a comparison of two versions of the SVT-AV1 codec, the blue plot representing SVT-AV1 version from March 15, 2019, and the green one from March 19, 2019. The success was repeated by H.264/AVC,

Open Source 167

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 167

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. Total Cost of Ownership.

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AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 99

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

A database should accommodate itself to different data distributions, cluster topologies and hardware configurations. In comparison with pure anti-entropy, this greatly improves consistency with a relatively small performance penalty. Static ID is used as a comparison metric, a node with a greater ID wins. Data Placement.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Percona

JUNE 30, 2023

Below you will find a short FAQ about the new operator and a comparison to version 1.x. This can be useful if you plan to migrate to new hardware or need to test the new topology. What is better in version 2 compared to version 1? Architecture Operator SDK is now used to build and package the Operator.

Availability 107

Availability Open Source Azure Hardware 107

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Hadoop’s value—being able to crunch large datasets—often paled in comparison to its costs. Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware. The elephant was unstoppable. Until it wasn’t.

Hardware 135

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 135

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Amazon Rekognition's face comparison and face search features can provide businesses with face-based authentication, verification of identity, and the ability to detect the presence of a specific person in a collection of images. Also, these attributes can be stored in Amazon Redshift to generate deeper insights of their customers.

AWS 153

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 153

SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

I had always assumed that there was a stronger correlation between the top waiters and top resource consumers but had never performed a direct query-level comparison like this, so these results were surprising to say the least. Since CPU and IO consumption translate directly to server hardware and cloud spend, this is significant.

Tuning 115

Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115

John McCalpin

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Most Intel microprocessors support “HyperThreading” (Intel’s trademark for their implementation of “simultaneous multithreading”) — which allows the hardware to support (typically) two “Logical Processors” for each physical core. leaving half of the Logical Processors idle).

Hardware 40

Hardware Performance Cache Availability 40

John McCalpin

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Most Intel microprocessors support “HyperThreading” (Intel’s trademark for their implementation of “simultaneous multithreading”) — which allows the hardware to support (typically) two “Logical Processors” for each physical core. leaving half of the Logical Processors idle).

Hardware 40

Hardware Performance Cache Availability 40

HammerDB

JULY 6, 2024

In a recent project comparing systems for MariaDB performance, a user had originally been using a tool called sysbench-tpcc to compare hardware platforms before migrating to HammerDB. This is a brief post to highlight the metrics to use to do the comparison using a separate hardware platform for illustration purposes.

C++ 52

C++ Hardware Benchmarking Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Eye-tracking provides information on how people navigate on a page and how attracted they are to visual elements on the screen, like in this study conducted by Nielsen Norman Group which shows the pattern that people use to scan comparison tables. This heatmap is a visual representation of the F-shaped pattern.

Mobile 128

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 128

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This is the first post in a series of posts on different approaches to systems security especially as they apply to hardware and architectural security. The class of techniques described in this blog post, which we broadly refer to as applied hardware and architecture cryptography, apply proven cryptographic techniques to strengthen systems.

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Systems Hardware Storage Architecture 48

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.). For comparison, the server bar also shows performance when the full application runs on the server. In the physics app edge processing yields 1.6x more fps for the JavaScript version, and 1.9x

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Taking into account the previous considerations, performance requirements were set as 1000 faceted navigation requests/second per typical hardware blade. On the one hand, maintenance node provides potentially resource-consuming indexing processes with dedicated hardware capacities.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Our audience is particularly strong in the software (20% of respondents), computer hardware (4%), and computer security (2%) industries—over 25% of the total. A small number (5%) reported their preferred pronoun as “they” or Other, but this sample was too small to draw any significant comparisons about compensation.

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Azure Programming AWS Social Media 145

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

The goal is to produce a low-energy hardware classifier for embedded applications doing local processing of sensor data. Race logic has four primary operations that are easy to implement in hardware: MAX, MIN, ADD-CONSTANT, and INHIBIT. One efficient way of doing that in analog hardware is the use of current-starved inverters.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Understanding Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Cloud computing has revolutionized the IT industry, offering a host of advantages including cost-effectiveness, increased agility, and access to cutting-edge hardware. What is the primary benefit of multi-cloud solutions in comparison to hybrid cloud solutions? But what do these entail?

Cloud 147

Cloud Strategy Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Adrian Cockcroft

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

There are three generations of GPUs that are relevant to this comparison. The Hopper H100 was announced in 2022 and is the current volume product that people are using, so that is used as the baseline for comparison. The HGX H100 8-GPU system is the baseline for comparison, and its datasheet performance is shownbelow.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Energy Architecture Latency 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

is access to hardware devices. This allows customisation and use of specialised features without custom, proprietary software for niche hardware. Some commenters appear to confuse unlike hardware for differences in software. Thankfully, the advent of M1 Macs makes it possible to remove hardware differences from comparisons.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

A perfect substitute for native or hybrid app development platform, apps aren’t hardware-sensitive or budget effective. It might not be compatible with the latest technology and hardware upgrades such as biometrics that comes along with various changes.

Social Media 52

Social Media Mobile Open Source Hardware 52

Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

A perfect substitute for native or hybrid app development platform, apps aren’t hardware-sensitive or budget effective. It might not be compatible with the latest technology and hardware upgrades such as biometrics that comes along with various changes.

Social Media 52

Social Media Mobile Open Source Hardware 52

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. These factors meant that often when looking for database performance information, the results for a particular combination of software and hardware were not available. What is HammerDB? Why HammerDB was developed.

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 63

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Synthetic updates are known to cause baseline changes due to hardware changes, browser optimization or in the case of Lighthouse, changes to the methodology. release notes Change log comparison between 12.3.0 In addition to upgrading the underlying operating system, we've added support for: Lighthouse 12.3.0 previously 10.4.0)

Testing 52

Testing Metrics Operating System Hardware 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

But the LCH gradient goes through vibrant shades of blue and purple in the middle, whereas the HSL gradient looks muddier and washed-out by comparison. Using values outside of the sRGB range will only have an effect when hardware and browsers advance sufficiently. Large preview ). In her article, LCH color in CSS: what, why, and how?

Energy 145

Energy Design Website Hardware 145

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

They are demand on the system, albeit for software resources rather than hardware resources. ## Decomposing Linux load averages Can the Linux load average value be fully decomposed into components? Yes, I'd say so. Those threads are in the middle of doing work, and happen to block on a lock. They aren't idle.

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. As I'm interested in the relative comparison I can just compare the total runtimes (the "real" time) for the same result. Theory (A) is most likely based on the frame widths in the flame graph.

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

sec) Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0 mysql> INSERT INTO employees_compressed SELECT * FROM employees; Size comparison: [user1] percona@db1: ~ $ sudo ls -lh /var/lib/mysql/employees/|grep employees -rw-r --. sec) mysql> ALTER TABLE employees_compressed ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.14

Open Source 111

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 111

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. If the kernel isn’t involved in the persistent data access path, then we need a hardware solution to enforce access control. What about security?

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

The Morning Paper

JULY 18, 2019

The first comparisons use MNIST images as the inputs, with three different set compositions: Class-based familiarity : A highly structured task where each set of images comes from the same randomly selected class (e.g., The size computation for the models includes the state of the supplementary Bloom Filter needed to keep out false negatives.

Network 86

Network Java Database Hardware 86

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Here is a comparison chart of the different levels of encryption available in various relational database management systems: Encryption Level. This key is usually stored in a secure location, such as a hardware security module (HSM). Encryption available in databases. Microsoft SQL Server. PostgreSQL.

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Database Storage Servers Strategy 94

Tech News Gather

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

However, the actual energy consumption varies based on the mining hardware and energy sources used. Comparison with Other Industrial Processes: While Bitcoin’s energy consumption is significant, it’s essential to compare it with other industries.

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Government Blockchain Energy Innovation 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Operating systems have often three layers, more or less coupled with each other: The kernel , which directly dabbles with the hardware of your computer; The shell , an interface for you, or some applications, to interact with the kernel; A display layer on top, like a desktop manager or a tiling windows manager. But first, a bit of theory.

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Development Energy Programming Systems 117

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

On multi-core machines – which is the majority of the hardware nowadays – and in the cloud, we have multiple cores available for use. For my test, I need to choose: Aurora instance type and comparison. Aurora instance type and comparison. With faster disks (i.e. AWS Aurora (based on MySQL 5.6) Test data and versions.

Cache 72

Cache C++ AWS Airlines 72

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

It will also use less power than a two-socket Intel server, with a lower hardware cost, and potentially lower licensing costs (for things like VMware). For comparison's sake, Lenovo has an earlier submission of an official TPC-E result for a two-socket, Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 2U server that has a TPC-E Throughput score of 7012.53.

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Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52