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Supercomputing Predictions: Custom CPUs, CXL3.0, and Petalith Architectures

Adrian Cockcroft

Most of the top supercomputers are similar to Frontier, they use AMD or Intel CPUs, with GPU accelerators, and Cray Slingshot or Infiniband networks in a Dragonfly+ configuration. The emergence of chiplet technology also allows higher performance and integration without having to design every chip from scratch.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications. Mobile First.

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Fast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone

The Morning Paper

Why are developers using RInK systems as part of their design? Keeping application services stateless is a design guideline that achieved widespread adoption following the publication of the 12-factor app manifesto. The network latency of fetching data over the network, even considering fast data center networks.

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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Jul 6 - End-To-End Arguments in System Design , by J. Jul - 13 Hints for Computer Systems Design Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. Aug 11 - " On the Naming and Binding of Network Destinations ", Saltzer, J. Saltzer, D. Reed, and D. 33-48, October 1983, Bretton Woods, NH, USA.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

That was the provocative thesis of a much-talked-about article from 2003 in the Harvard Business Review by the US publicist Nicolas Carr. The founders had noticed that in many companies, product designers worked in a very detached manner from the rest of production. Strategically, IT doesn't matter. Value creation through data.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

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HammerDB Concepts and Architecture

HammerDB

TCL was designed as a language to be closely tied with C/C++ and at this lower level there is the compiled TCL (tclsh) or TCL/TK (wish) interpreter and supporting libraries. These bin and lib directories are not included with the source code. You can download and compile TCL/TK 8.6 You can download and compile TCL/TK 8.6 HammerDB CLI v3.1