The Morning Paper

JUNE 11, 2019

To me that means the “simple” object access protocol, but not here: We introduce SOAP, a more comprehensive search space of parallelization strategies for DNNs that includes strategies to parallelize a DNN in the Sample, Operator, Attribute, and Parameter dimensions. compared to state-of-the-art approaches.

Network 81

Network Strategy Hardware Benchmarking 81

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A company then needed to train up their ops team to manage the cluster, and their analysts to express their ideas in MapReduce. 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.

Hardware 97

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. In addition to the disaster recovery site, this design includes an external layer of nodes.

Availability 105

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

I must confess I was feeling so high and mighty about using LoadRunner, the “best” tool in the market, that it took this 3 day training to have me realize that viable alternatives existed. After this I spent almost 4 years working at Neotys, demos, proofs of concept, training people, the usual turf of a pre-sales engineer.

Open Source 223

Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Andrew Ng , Christopher Ré , and others have pointed out that in the past decade, we’ve made a lot of progress with algorithms and hardware for running AI. Our current set of AI algorithms are good enough, as is our hardware; the hard problems are all about data. It is difficult to answer that kind of question with nothing but data.

Games 114

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 114

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

This is arguably a fundamentally hard problem for computer architecture, but efforts towards open source hardware (eg. Her current work focuses on hardware/software co-design for extremely large-scale deep learning training. RISCV ) and accessible, well-supported simulators (eg. gem5 ) are baby steps towards this goal.

Architecture 74

Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

The thrust of the argument is that there’s a chain of inter-linked assumptions / dependencies from the hardware all the way to the programming model, and any time you step outside of the mainstream it’s sufficiently hard to get acceptable performance that researchers are discouraged from doing so. GPU and TPU).

Systems 87

Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Previously, the top priorities for IT departments were equipping data centers with hardware, purchasing software, and further developing proprietary software. In most cases, you won't select a learning offer from a general training catalog, as in the pre-digital era. Development will have to be customized for each individual.

Social Media 84

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 84

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

But we, as technologists, have typically ignored our own expectations when designing and building those devices. If the devices aren’t designed with those expectations in mind, they’re destined for the landfill. When designing an experience, you need to consider the identity context and where the experience will take place.

Google 121

Google Games Technology Technology 121

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To help our customers manage ongoing data explosion, we have designed many of the core components over the last few years. I mean that as your scale grows then design patterns and strategies that used to work 2 years ago and allowed you to go from defensive to offensive positioning may buckle under pressure or becomes cost-prohibitive.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52