VoltDB

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, these technologies are on a path of rapid convergence as factories scale up their IIoT networks and demand faster, more autonomous decision-making. Edge computing can help by keeping sensitive data processing local to the facility, reducing exposure to external networks.

IoT 52

IoT Energy Latency Automotive 52

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

But often, we use additional services and solutions within our environment for backups, storage, networking, and more. Kubernetes-based efficient power level exporter (Kepler) is a Prometheus exporter that uses ML models to estimate the energy consumption of Kubernetes pods. Labels we don’t need.

Metrics 245

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 245

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum interconnect is the networking layer of the architecture, and manages communication between the Greenplum segments and master host network infrastructure. If you have mirroring enabled, you must increase your segment hosts in increments of at least two. So, how is this all coordinated? Greenplum Advantages. Machine Learning.

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VoltDB

DECEMBER 11, 2024

By bringing computation closer to the data source, edge-based deployments reduce latency, enhance real-time capabilities, and optimize network bandwidth. Inconsistent network performance affecting data synchronization. Managing data residency while leveraging global edge networks. Increased latency during peak loads.

IoT 52

IoT Energy Logistics Latency 52

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

Innovation is at the heart of success, and no one knows that more than our winner of the LATAM Cloud Innovation Award – Netjer Networks. Mediro has the drive, passion, and energy needed to bring the best talent to the industry, and that’s why we’ve awarded them with our RFO Training and Certification Award for EMEA.

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Games Innovation Energy Cloud 246

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

We needed to serve our growing base of startup, government, and enterprise customers across many vertical industries, including automotive, financial services, media and entertainment, high technology, education, and energy. ENEL is one of the leading energy operators in the world.

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AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 164

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Shaun Raviv : Friston’s free energy principle says that all life, at every scale of organization—from single cells to the human brain, with its billions of neurons—is driven by the same universal imperative, which can be reduced to a mathematical function. Or, in Fristonian terms, it is to minimize free energy.

Internet 28

Internet Internet Scalability Energy 28

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

If the objective under the performance efficiency pillar is achieved, it indicates successful cost reduction for the disk size. SRG validates the status of the resiliency SLOs for the experiment period.

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AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 305

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2024

IoT is transforming how industries operate and make decisions, from agriculture to mining, energy utilities, and traffic management. In today’s data-driven world, businesses across various industry verticals increasingly leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) to drive efficiency and innovation.

IoT 264

IoT Analytics Transportation Metrics 264

Speed Curve

JANUARY 19, 2025

A critical part of the code yellow was ensuring Google's sites would be fast for users across the globe, even if they had slow networks and low end devices. Leadership wanted to know the real page load times end users were experiencing.

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Performance Google Speed Metrics 98

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

Boosted race trees for low energy classification Tzimpragos et al., We don’t talk about energy as often as we probably should on this blog, but it’s certainly true that our data centres and various IT systems consume an awful lot of it. So decision trees are essentially networks of threshold functions. ASPLOS’19.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Efficiency Architecture 52

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Gerry McGovern asked if I had any insight into energy consumption and websites. He was wondering about the specifics of web tech, like… If you do this in HTML it will consume 3× energy but if you do it in JavaScript it will consume 10 ×. Things that lead to poor performance are things that take energy. Imagine images.

Website 98

Website Energy Storage Servers 98

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Sites that use an excess of resources, whether on the network or on the device, don’t just cause slow experiences, but can leave entire groups of people out. Similarly, there is a growing gap between what a top of the line network connection can handle and what someone with a poor mobile connection or satellite connection can handle.

Performance 111

Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I'm also excited to announce today that we are launching an AWS Edge Network Location in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first quarter of 2018. One of the important criteria in launching this AWS Region is the opportunity to power it with renewable energy.

Cloud 117

Cloud Education Energy Government 117

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 7, 2023

Sunset in Morocco — photo taken by Adrian We want to reduce carbon emissions of our compute and storage workloads, and one way of doing this is to choose a time and place where the “grid mix” of energy consumed is less carbon intensive. So it’s good practice to cron-jitter start times.

Energy 52

Energy AWS Cloud Azure 52

VoltDB

APRIL 25, 2024

To move as fast as they can at scale while protecting mission-critical data, more and more organizations are investing in private 5G networks, also known as private cellular networks or just “private 5G” (not to be confused with virtual private networks, which are something totally different). What is a private 5G network?

Network 52

Network IoT Wireless Infrastructure 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We adapted the SOTA convolutional recurrent neural network ( CRNN ) architecture to accommodate our requirements for input/output dimensionality and model complexity. The best model was a CRNN with three convolutional layers, followed by two bi-directional recurrent layers and one fully connected layer.

Architecture 233

Architecture Energy Benchmarking Processing 233

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

OpenConnect, the ability to deploy the CDN directly into the internal network of these ISPs served multiple purposes--not the least of which was to expose the fact that they were holding Netflix for ransom. So, to say that was the executive foreseeing things is a bit of revisionist history.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

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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Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 100

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. They maintain fault tolerance and redundancy by replicating this information throughout various nodes in the system.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. We look forward to broadening this portfolio to include more services over the next several quarters.

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AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 154

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. Large preview ).

Website Performance 78

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

As regular readers of this letter will know, our energy at Amazon comes from the desire to impress customers rather than the zeal to best competitors. In the 2013 Amazon Shareholder letter , Jeff Bezos spent time explaining the decision to pursue a customer-centric way in our business.

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AWS Innovation Energy Best Practices 99

O'Reilly

JUNE 20, 2023

Verification, including that of the identity of all participants in a blockchain network, and compliance are woven throughout the workflow and processes. If data on the blockchain network ever undergoes tampering, the cryptographic hash used as verification will no longer compute to the same value.

Blockchain 108

Blockchain Network Government Programming 108

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

An IDS/IPS monitors network flows and matches incoming packets (or more strictly, Protocol Data Units, PDUs) against a set of rules. FPGAs are chosen because they are both energy efficient and available on SmartNICs). IDS/IPS requirements. Pigasus is an Intrusion Detection / Prevention System (IDS/IPS).

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In France, you can find one of the most vibrant startup ecosystems in the world, a strong research community, excellent energy, telecom, and transportation infrastructure, a very strong agriculture and food industry, and some of the most influential luxury brands in the world. Our AWS EU (Paris) Region is open for business now.

AWS 84

AWS Artificial Intelligence Education Energy 84

MachMetrics

AUGUST 7, 2019

Yup – as if there weren’t a million other reasons why having an optimized site is important, you can now take pride in knowing that a fast website: saves energy, reduces economic disparity, increases happiness, and – in the most recent news – can prevent hate. Fast Websites Save Energy.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 68

Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

Mobile Network Issues. Mobile network bandwidth testing is something without which the mobile app testing cannot be considered complete. The main challenge with the mobile network bandwidth is that even though the end-user is on a slower network, they expect the application to work faster (or at expected speed).

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Mobile Testing Energy Operating System 74

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Thousands of customers in China are already using AWS services operated by Sinnet, to innovate in diverse areas such as energy, education, manufacturing, home security, mobile and internet platforms, CRM solutions, and the dairy industry, among others.

AWS 63

AWS Cloud Energy Education 63

The Morning Paper

MAY 30, 2019

I’ve chosen another energy-related paper to end the week, addressing a problem many people can relate to: apps that drain your battery. Wasted energy. For example, the K-9 mail app on Android had a bug whereby it would enter an infinite retry loop when the network was disconnected or a mail server failed. ASPLOS’19.

Mobile 59

Mobile Energy Network Games 59

Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

If users have a slow network or a slow computer, they will see an ugly loader while their joke is being downloaded. However, it’s not energy-efficient to render the article for each and every request. Or hosting a full-fledged application directly on a Content Delivery Network (CDN)? It means that you cannot control the server.

Cache 127

Cache Website Servers Energy 127

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

To speed up migration and quickly restore wasm functions at the destination, the wasm instantiate function is intially called with a dummy linear memory, and then this is later replaced once the real memory has arrived over the network. An example for the cubes application is shown below. The opencv app has the largest state (4.6

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

Cloud 133

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 133

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable,” just ten years before Enrico Fermi completed construction of the first fission reactor in Chicago. Shortly thereafter, the consensus switched to fears of an imminent nuclear holocaust.

Social Media 124

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 124

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? TCO, energy savings for 100 racks eight-way HGX H100 air-cooled vs. 1 rack GB200 NVL72 liquid-cooled with equivalent performance. Various benchmarks show improvements of 1.4x

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Energy Architecture Latency 52

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

This proposal seeks to define a standard for real-time carbon and energy data as time-series data that would be accessed alongside and synchronized with the existing throughput, utilization and latency metrics that are provided for the components and applications in computing environments.

Energy 52

Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

The Internet itself, over which these systems operate, is a dynamically distributed network spanning national borders and policies with no central coordinating agent. Moreover: Causality is complex and networked. Routing, for example, is non-deterministic. The number of plausible options is vast. Preventative design is not enough.

Internet 98

Internet Internet Strategy Energy 98