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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems. This weekends back-to-basics reading is on operating system virtualization. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 20 July 2012 12:00 PM. Comments (). Malo, France.

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

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Jul - 13 Hints for Computer Systems Design Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001.

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

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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!

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HammerDB Concepts and Architecture

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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

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

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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.

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