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The Surprising Effectiveness of Non-Overlapping, Sensitivity-Based Performance Models

John McCalpin

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). This includes all architectures, all compilers, all operating systems, and all system configurations.

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Proposal for a Realtime Carbon Footprint Standard

Adrian Cockcroft

This would open up opportunities to leverage existing performance monitoring tools and dashboards, extend optimization tools like autoscalers and schedulers, and to build new kinds of carbon analysis and optimization tools and services. I published a paper and presentation in 2006 that discusses the complexities of measuring CPU utilization.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost.

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24-core CPU and I can’t type an email (part two)

Randon ASCII

On any modern operating system each process gets their own virtual memory address space so that the operating system can isolate processes and protect memory. But, statistically speaking, timing in concurrent systems tends to be so volatile that each thread will eventually get its turn to run, probabilistically speaking.

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Top Frontend Frameworks to use in 2022

Enprowess

Web apps allow you to break the traditional constraints of the desktop and mobile operating systems and provide freedom to experiment with different varieties of software. React got popular due to the virtual document object model (DOM) which enables it to enhance performance of web apps and PWA significantly.

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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage.

All Things Distributed

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was launched in 2006 as "Storage for the Internet" with the promise to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Four years later it stores over 100 billion objects and routinely performs well over 120,000 storage operations per second. Durability in Amazon S3.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

© ​​ 2006 ​​ Microsoft Corporation. Subsystem / Path The ​​ I/O subsystem or path ​​ includes ​​ those ​​ components ​​ that are ​​ used to support an I/O operation. ​​ All rights reserved.

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