All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2012

Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems. This weekends back-to-basics reading is on operating system virtualization. There are two papers that deserve the "classic" tag as they both form the basis for operating system virtualization that is in production today. Comments ().

Operating System 94

Operating System Virtualization Systems Hardware 94

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

I presented a keynote for Sun at Supercomputing 2003 in Phoenix Arizona and included the slide shown below. CXL is a memory protocol, as shown in the third block in my diagram from 2003, and provides cache coherent latency around 200ns, and up to 2 meters maximum distance. This topic needs further research and additional blog posts!

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Jul - 13 Hints for Computer Systems Design Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. Harris, Alex Ho, Rolf Neugebauer, Ian Pratt, Andrew Warfield, in the Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, October 19-22, 2003, Bolton Landing, NY USA.

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

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.

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Steve Shaw. However it is noted that there are many factors that input into home much time is spent in spin-locks in the first place until these parameters come into play, examples such as the speed of the memory and the storage and configuration of the schema with partitioning as well as the operating system.

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

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

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

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