The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. Different hardware architectures (CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, …) offer different performance and cost trade-offs.

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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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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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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.). Future work includes delving into more realistic use cases and addressing other challenges related to mobile computing such as energy efficiency. For the filter app the JavaScript version sees a 2.4x

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DZone

JULY 19, 2023

Amidst the rapid advancements in the utility and energy industry, where demands continually escalate, the role of IT operations has grown significantly, requiring enhanced capabilities to ensure seamless operations. The global IT operations and service management market is expected to grow by 7.5% billion by 2025.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

By leveraging Hyper-V, cloud service providers can optimize hardware utilization by running multiple virtual machines (VMs) on a single physical server. This consolidation leads to cost savings, energy efficiency, and streamlined management of resources, making cloud services more accessible and affordable.

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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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In my experience, avoiding the hundreds of hand movements between the keyboard and the mouse saves a lot of cognitive energy. It saves me a lot of time and energy. This is something I never really considered during my first years as a developer, but it’s a big advantage. But first, a bit of theory. Editor Plus Shell Equals IDE.

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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. One efficient way of doing that in analog hardware is the use of current-starved inverters.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

We have software that communicates with different components, such as APIs, databases, and hardware, and data flows in real-time across many connected devices in the IoT environment (internet of things). With the complexity of an application, the amount of test effort required increases exponentially.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Let’s start by assuming that you have figured out a way to estimate the energy consumption and carbon footprint for a workload that is sensitive enough to register changes in the way you run the workload. The first thing to understand is that doing things consumes time and energy and has a carbon footprint of its own.

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Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation 52

Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 28, 2017

It’s connected to the white plastic Noon Extension switches via Bluetooth Low Energy, and since they are all in the same room, the signal doesn’t have to go through walls to get there. Hardware installation was a lot of work but not too frustrating, I did it in about two days over the holidays. The Noon switches only control lights.

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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.

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ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

An example of a specification is the correct operation of the hardware of a microprocessor. A well-understood root cause of faults that occur in a processor is a high-energy particle, such a neutron or alpha particle. Resiliency and reliability must be achieved, but not at the expense of high performance and energy-efficiency.

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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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Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

Engineering stop-energy in standards and quasi-standards bodies is nice and all, but it is so much more work than simply denying anyone the ability to ship the features that you won't. Apple has perfected the moat, preventing competitors from even potentially offering disruptive features.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

It takes time to board up the windows before a storm, and if competition is truly coming, this burst of energy looks like a belated attempt to batten the hatches for competition. And yet, Apple continued to apply stop-energy. Failing that, a more capable Safari provides fewer reasons for web developers to recommend another browser.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. What Exactly is Greenplum?

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Benefits of Graviton2 Processors Best price performance for a broad range of workloads Extensive software support Enhanced security for cloud applications Available with managed AWS services Best performance per watt of energy used in Amazon EC2 Storage Continuing with the AWS example, choosing the right storage option will be key to performance.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Hardware gets better, sure. Cennydd also makes the case that performance also has an impact on energy consumption: In 2016, video, tracking scripts and sharing buttons caused the average website to swell to the same size as the original version of Doom. Based on the 5 kWh energy consumption estimate, we’re looking at spending 17.6

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

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. You can drag and drop blocks around to create your scripts, design your load policy in a few clicks and run even a very large test with a single button.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

is access to hardware devices. Allows Bluetooth Low Energy devices to safely communicate with web apps, eliminating the need to download heavyweight applications to configure individual IoT devices. This allows customisation and use of specialised features without custom, proprietary software for niche hardware. Shape Detection.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

cpupower frequency-info analyzing CPU 0: driver: intel_pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0 maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00 hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Although modern iOS hardware is powerful enough to handle many intensive and complex tasks, the device could still feel unresponsive if you are not careful about how your app performs. A higher QoS value will also consume more energy due to it using more resources. iOS Performance Tricks To Make Your App Feel More Performant.

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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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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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O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Combined, technology verticals—software, computers/hardware, and telecommunications—account for about 35% of the audience (Figure 2). Respondents work in more than 25 different vertical industries.The single largest cluster consists of respondents (26%) from the software industry. Figure 2: Respondent industries.

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John McCalpin

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

The art and science of microprocessor architecture is a never-ending struggling to balance complexity, verifiability, usability, expressiveness, compactness, ease of encoding/decoding, energy consumption, backwards compatibility, forwards compatibility, and other factors.

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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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Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

These components include schools; transportation; energy; water; and communications such as the accuracy, timeliness, and transparency of election reporting. Every hardware, software, cloud infrastructure component, container, open source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity within modern environments.

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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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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. Traditionally, IT has been a risk assumer. This defines IT's business relevance.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

So we need low latency, but we also need very high throughput: A recurring theme in IDS/IPS literature is the gap between the workloads they need to handle and the capabilities of existing hardware/software implementations. FPGAs are chosen because they are both energy efficient and available on SmartNICs). MPSM: First things first.

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