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Top500 list: a brief introduction

PDC

This is vividly reflected in the design on the Titan supercomputer , which is still among the world’s top 10 most powerful supercomputers (as of the November 2018 Top500 list). Some particularly useful information that is available from the Top500 list website highlights the performance development of supercomputer systems.

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Effective Concurrency: Know When to Use an Active Object Instead of a Mutex

Sutter's Mill

This month’s Effective Concurrency column, “Know When to Use an Active Object Instead of a Mutex,” is now live on DDJ’s website. Before reading on, please think about the question and pencil in some pseudocode to vet your design. 6 Use Lock Hierarchies to Avoid Deadlock (Jan 2008). Feb 2008).

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Effective Concurrency: Prefer Using Active Objects Instead of Naked Threads

Sutter's Mill

This month’s Effective Concurrency column, “ Prefer Using Active Objects Instead of Naked Threads ,” is now live on DDJ’s website. As with all good patterns, we also get better vocabulary to talk about our design. 6 Use Lock Hierarchies to Avoid Deadlock (Jan 2008). Feb 2008). 8 Going Superlinear (Mar 2008).

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Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

The images from the 2008 TNW Conference have travelled around the world in my Animoto demo: This year TNW is showing that it is not just a conference for talkers but also for builders by organizing a massive Hackaton in the two days running up to the conference. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Recent Entries.

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Effective Concurrency: Prefer Using Futures or Callbacks to Communicate Asynchronous Results

Sutter's Mill

This month’s Effective Concurrency column, “Prefer Using Futures or Callbacks to Communicate Asynchronous Results,” is now live on DDJ’s website. 6 Use Lock Hierarchies to Avoid Deadlock (Jan 2008). Feb 2008). 8 Going Superlinear (Mar 2008). 10 Interrupt Politely (May 2008).

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

The world’s first website was made from static HTML files created in a text editor. Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Mike Neumegen. released 1998.

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DevOps automation: From event-driven automation to answer-driven automation [with causal AI]

Dynatrace

The evolution of DevOps automation Since the concept of DevOps emerged around 2007 and 2008 in response to pain points with Agile development, DevOps automation has been continuously evolving. For example, consider an e-commerce website that automatically sends personalized discount codes to customers who abandon their shopping carts.

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