Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

During the Reinventing HPC panel session, there was some discussion of the cost of designing custom processors for HPC, and a statement that it was too high, in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The emergence of chiplet technology also allows higher performance and integration without having to design every chip from scratch.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Jul 6 - End-To-End Arguments in System Design , by J. Clark, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 2(4):277-288, November 1984. Jul - 13 Hints for Computer Systems Design Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. Saltzer, D. Reed, and D. Malo, France. Gray and David R.

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HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It is of note that we have not discussed the operating system yet, that is because the source code and the code included with the pre-packaged versions is identical whether it is running on Linux or Windows on x86-64 architecture (or any other platform). Virtual Users within HammerDB are operating system threads.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I had to setup a week of talks by all the relevant product teams, with a hundred or so of the most experienced systems engineers from all over the world as an audience. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. This is different from ​​ the reference count design ​​ that was ​​ used in SQL Server 7.0 and ​​ 2000.

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