Adrian Cockcroft
JANUARY 20, 2023
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. I presented a keynote for Sun at Supercomputing 2003 in Phoenix Arizona and included the slide shown below.
Dotcom-Montior
OCTOBER 6, 2021
The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. The term “Site Reliability Engineer” is attributed to Ben Treynor Sloss, now a Vice President of Engineering at Google. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.
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Rigor
JANUARY 13, 2020
Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. ” – Andy King, 2003. High Performance Browser Networking.
The Morning Paper
JUNE 23, 2019
In ProtoCache (a component of a widely used Google application), 27% of its latency when using a traditional S+RInK design came from marshalling/un-marshalling. The network latency of fetching data over the network, even considering fast data center networks. What have the authors got against this combination?
Adrian Cockcroft
JUNE 21, 2022
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.
Tim Kadlec
JULY 31, 2013
Nick Finck and Steve Champeon first coined the term “progressive enhancement” in 2003. In a comment on my last post I referenced the Boston Globe and how it appears on Google Glass. The point is not that we all need to be testing on Google Glass—time will tell how well that device does. That was 2008.
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