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How It Works: SQL Server 2016 SSE/AVX Support

SQL Server According to Bob

As indicated, SQL Server 2016 added the use of SSE and AVX instructions in various code paths to improve performance. SQL Server asks the CPU if it supports SSE or AVX in order to determine the level of hardware support present on the system. My recent posts. have generated discussions about the SSE and AVX support boundaries.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X

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Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android

The Netflix TechBlog

For our mobile environment, AV1 follows on our work with VP9, which we released as part of our mobile encodes in 2016 and further optimized with shot-based encodes in 2018. Our support for AV1 represents Netflix’s continued investment in delivering the most efficient and highest quality video streams.

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Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android

The Netflix TechBlog

For our mobile environment, AV1 follows on our work with VP9, which we released as part of our mobile encodes in 2016 and further optimized with shot-based encodes in 2018. Our support for AV1 represents Netflix’s continued investment in delivering the most efficient and highest quality video streams.

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SQL 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: DBCC Scales 7x Better

SQL Server According to Bob

SQL Server 2016 changes the internal design to (CheckScanner), applying no lock semantics and a design similar to those used with In-Memory Optimized (Hekaton) objects, allowing DBCC operations to scale far better than previous releases. On the same hardware/machine repeat steps 1 thru 3 using an instance of SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.0

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Invited Talk at SuperComputing 2016!

John McCalpin

“Memory Bandwidth and System Balance in HPC Systems” If you are planning to attend the SuperComputing 2016 conference in Salt Lake City next month, be sure to reserve a spot on your calendar for my talk on Wednesday afternoon (4:15pm-5:00pm).

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A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators

ACM Sigarch

HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens. To my best knowledge, even though the term NPU was first mentioned in a MICRO 2012 paper by Hadi Esmaeilzadeh et al. , the first commercial product named after NPU in industry is from Vimicro in 2016. In ISSCC’18, there were many NPU designs.