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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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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface? Fast forward to the early 1960s, phototypesetting systems appeared. Reasons To Measure The Performance Of Typefaces?

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AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors and SQL Server

SQL Performance

The initial reviews and benchmarks for these processors have been very impressive: AMD EPYC 7002 Series Rome Delivers a Knockout. AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked. TPC-H Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. This system has one AMD EPYC 7502P 32-core processor and 512GB of RAM.

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Top500 list: a brief introduction

PDC

It ranks the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers based on their performance as measured by the Linpack benchmark. In addition to performance, the Top500 list also summarises the main characteristics of the supercomputers in the list. This is also commonly known as “double precision” on many computer systems.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

For many years, I explicitly advised people not to run their SQL Server workloads on AMD hardware because of the much lower single-threaded CPU performance and consequently higher SQL Server core license costs. This has led to a very noticeable reduction in generational performance increases since Broadwell-EP, as shown in Figure 1.

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2019 PostgreSQL Trends Report: Private vs. Public Cloud, Migrations, Database Combinations & Top Reasons Used

High Scalability

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Most of this article represents an overview of the results published by retailers and researchers who built practical decision making and optimization systems combining abstract economic models with data mining methods. Moreover, gross margin is not the only performance metric that is important for retailers. Applications.

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