Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

on Myths and Legends of High Performance Computing  — it’s a somewhat light-hearted look at some of the same issues by the leader of the team that built the Fugaku system I mention below. HPCG is led by Japan’s RIKEN Fugaku system at 16 petaflops, which is 3% of it’s peak capacity. petaflops, which is 0.8% of peak capacity.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This article Threads Done Right… With Tcl gives an excellent overview of these capabilities and it should be clear that to build a scalable benchmarking tool this thread performance and scalability is key. Virtual Users within HammerDB are operating system threads. You can download and compile TCL/TK 8.6 HammerDB CLI v3.1

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Subsystem / Path The ​​ I/O subsystem or path ​​ includes ​​ those ​​ components ​​ that are ​​ used to support an I/O operation. ​​ Also, it ​​ is ​​ generally impractical on a production system.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40