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. This is left as an exercise for the application developer at present. Traditional pointers address a memory location (often virtual of course).

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2022

advertisers) or exercise pricing power (start charging for use). Labor productivity improvement was so great compared to the hardware and software costs, interest rates had no discernible effect. If that moment didn’t arrive before credit tightening began, well, time’s up.

Hardware 52

Hardware Innovation Availability Software 52

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to Dr. Bandwidth, performance analysis has two recurring themes: How fast should this code (or “simple” variations on this code) run on this hardware? The user environment defines the mapping of MPI ranks to hardware resources (cores, sockets, nodes). The MPI runtime library. in ways that are seldom transparent.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

John McCalpin

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to Dr. Bandwidth, performance analysis has two recurring themes: How fast should this code (or “simple” variations on this code) run on this hardware? The user environment defines the mapping of MPI ranks to hardware resources (cores, sockets, nodes). The MPI runtime library. in ways that are seldom transparent.

Hardware 40

Hardware Transportation Performance Latency 40

Tech News Gather

JULY 16, 2022

Because it utilizes multi-factor authentication, multi-layered hardware, and software encryption, the application offers its users a high degree of protection. This software is the most appealing option among those focused on finances. One of the most excellent features of the software is how simple it is to use.

Entertainment 52

Entertainment Google Programming Games 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

In some sense it's a confidence-management exercise. Of course, it would be better from the OS vendor's perspective if everyone simply wrote all of the software for their proprietary platform, maximising OS feature differentiation. A Web as Meta-Platform endgame requires that the platform continues to improve in expressive capacity.

Benchmarking 60

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 60

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. In the same way that we have moved from a few big software releases a year to continuous delivery of many small changes, we need to move from annual disaster recover tests or suffering when things actually break, to continuously tested resilience.

Latency 53

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 53

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 17, 2020

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Memorial at Hawaiian native burial ground, Kapalua, Maui. Picture taken by Adrian March 17, 2020 A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures.

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Healthcare Government Airlines Systems 52

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. In this type of environment, there are many potential sources of failure, stemming from the infrastructure itself (e.g.

Latency 77

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. In the same way that we have moved from a few big software releases a year to continuous delivery of many small changes, we need to move from annual disaster recover tests or suffering when things actually break, to continuously tested resilience.

Latency 52

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 52

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. on identical hardware, with identical settings, but at different load levels. and 8.0.32

Performance 55

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HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

As the chart shows because we know that both HammerDB and the implementation of the TPC-C workload scales then we can determine that with this particular database engine both the software and hardware scales as well. can you be sure that it scales?

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

While I was writing chapter 3 of my book, Activist Investing in Strategic Software , I spent time researching the rise of centralized procurement departments in the 1990s. Buying became an exercise in sourcing for the lowest unit cost any vendor was willing to supply for a particular skill-set.

Innovation 40

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John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

The exercise seemed simple enough — just fix one item in the Colfax code and we should be finished. DGEMM implementations also typically require software prefetches to be interspersed with the computation to minimize memory stalls when moving from one “block” of the computation to the next.

Latency 40

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John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

There was no deep goal — just a desire to see the maximum GFLOPS in action. The exercise seemed simple enough — just fix one item in the Colfax code and we should be finished. This is an uninspiring fraction of peak performance that would normally suggest significant inefficiencies in either the hardware or software.

Latency 40

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