Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Advocates of any technique or technology can be a bit heavy-handed when it suits them if they’re not being careful–myself included. Hardware gets better, sure. In a 2012 paper, The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy estimated the internet uses 5 kWh on average to support every GB of data. It makes sense.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In addition to its goal of reducing energy costs, Shell needed to be more agile in deploying IT services and planning for user demand. Essent – supplies customers in the Benelux region with gas, electricity, heat and energy services. Here are some great examples from different industries each with unique use cases.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Most jobs I was offered were related to older technologies like Prolog/Cobol. You do not need to trouble yourself with datasets, hardware, reporting or any of the usual pain points of JMeter, we’ll do it for you. How did you get into performance engineering? As most things in life, by chance. But there was one that piqued my interest.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Artificial intelligence and machine learning Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are becoming more prevalent in web development, with many companies and developers looking to integrate these technologies into their websites and web applications. JavaScript frameworks JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue.js

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) was the focus of the QZFS paper which used this new hardware device to speed up file system compression.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

But as it stands, websites are growing ever more obese, which means that the energy demand of the Internet is continuing to grow exponentially. The Green Web Foundation maintains an ever-growing database of web hosts who are either wholly powered by renewable energy or are at least committed to being carbon neutral.

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 23, 2007

This might be a data centre where hardware uptime is guaranteed to process transactions, a timesheeting capability that is available on-demand, or development of a custom application to analyse asset backed securities. play with shiny new toys) without taking us out of our comfort zone (the technology space versus the business space).

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O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Combined, technology verticals—software, computers/hardware, and telecommunications—account for about 35% of the audience (Figure 2). Do we see meaningful connections between success with microservices and the use, or disuse, of specific technologies? Containers are a simplifying technology. Probably so. services).

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Adrian Cockcroft

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Deep dive into NVIDIA Blackwell Benchmarkswhere does the 4x training and 30x inference performance gain, and 25x reduction in energy usage comefrom? Most publications have simply reported the benchmark improvement claims, but if you stop to think about them, the numbers dont make sense based on a simplistic view of the technology changes.

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ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

However, as technology nodes have scaled, there have been several fundamental physical challenges to overcome to provide the abstraction of reliability. An example of a specification is the correct operation of the hardware of a microprocessor. Overview Reliability is essential for computing. Each fault has a root cause.

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VoltDB

JUNE 26, 2024

To this end, more and more manufacturers are investing in intelligent manufacturing technology that enables them to create highly adaptive, efficient, and responsive production systems that enhance output and improve product quality while minimizing waste. billion by 2030, an uptick from $310.92

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ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

However, building and utilizing HCM presents challenges, including interconnecting various memory technologies (e.g., There are three common mechanisms to access remote memory: modifying applications, modifying virtual memory, and hardware-level cache coherence support. About CXL hardware availability with academia.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Within a few years, we saw significant expansion of contract labor firms (or "services", or "consulting", whichever you prefer): firms like Accenture and Infosys grew rapidly, while firms like IBM ditched hardware for services. Selling became a race to the bottom in pricing. At the same time, it isn't that surprising.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. As OS and hardware deployed base integrate these components, the set of what most computers can do is expanded. This is often determined by hardware integration and device replacement rates.

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VoltDB

APRIL 25, 2024

If you host your own network, you have to pay for hardware, software, and security infrastructure, and you also need space to store servers and absorb the associated energy costs. While still a relatively nascent technology, managed private 5G networks are best suited for industrial-scale applications (e.g.,

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Many technologies must be handled and supported on many platforms, computers, and browsers in the emerging digital environment test framework. Instead, diligent automation testing improves applications’ total performance, which can publish faster with less time and less energy. The method is diligent in identifying flaws.

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

Consider, for example , a hedge fund storing portfolios of stocks in an IMDG as objects, where each portfolio tracks a given market sector (high tech, energy, healthcare, etc.). We have seen this computing model’s utility in countless applications.

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

Consider, for example , a hedge fund storing portfolios of stocks in an IMDG as objects, where each portfolio tracks a given market sector (high tech, energy, healthcare, etc.). We have seen this computing model’s utility in countless applications.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

On Episode 65 of the Tech Transforms podcast , Willie Hicks and I sit down with Ann Dunkin, chief information officer of the Department of Energy (DOE), to discuss her department’s direct involvement in developing the federal cybersecurity strategy. They’re really focusing on hardware and software systems together,” Dunkin said.

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Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 28, 2024

At Intel we've been creating a new analyzer tool to help reduce AI costs called AI Flame Graphs : a visualization that shows an AI accelerator or GPU hardware profile along with the full software stack, based on my CPU flame graphs. The towers are getting smaller as optimizations are added. This is too important to do badly.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

As is the case with many other developers, the reports over the last few years of the huge energy requirements of the web have prompted me to take a look at my own websites and see what I can do to minimize their impact. Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web. Berwyn Powell. 2021-09-03T11:30:00+00:00. 2021-09-03T15:05:53+00:00.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I also learned a lot about how to work directly with customers, when to shut up and let the sales guy drive the conversation, and generally how technology sales works. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

For Carbon Impact, these business events come from an automation workflow that translates host utilization metrics into energy consumption in watt hours (Wh) and into greenhouse gas emissions in carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). Energy consumption is then translated to CO2e based on host geolocation.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

Nearly all government technology leaders (97%) reported the complexity of their technology stack has increased in the past 12 months. These components include schools; transportation; energy; water; and communications such as the accuracy, timeliness, and transparency of election reporting.

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Tech News Gather

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

In the 21st century, two groundbreaking innovations have captured the world’s imagination: Bitcoin, a decentralized digital currency, and quark fusion reactors, representing the future of energy. This article explores their interconnected impacts, providing insights into the future of technology, energy, and finance.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

ENU101 | Achieving dynamic power grid operations with AWS Reducing carbon emissions requires shifting to renewable energy, increasing electrification, and operating a more dynamic power grid. It has been a topic of research for the last 50+ years, and now cloud technologies are helping to accelerate its pace of development.

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