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Understanding Bitcoin’s Impact on Self-governing Quark Fusion Reactors

Tech News Gather

This article explores their interconnected impacts, providing insights into the future of technology, energy, and finance. Basics of Bitcoin and the Blockchain Technology Historical Evolution and the Rise of Bitcoin: Bitcoin, introduced in 2008 by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, revolutionized the world of finance.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it.

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Top500 list: a brief introduction

PDC

Over the years, the performance of the world’s fastest supercomputers have reached teraFLOPS (10 12 FLOPS) in 1997 and petaFLOPS (10 15 FLOPS) in 2008, and the next milestone is exaFLOPS (10 18 FLOPS). You might have noticed that there is a turning point in 2008 where the increase in performance of the 500 th machine slowed down slightly.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. It was a great privilege.

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File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from ten years of Ceph evolution

The Morning Paper

While different systems require different features from a storage backend, two of these features, (1) efficient transactions and (2) fast metadata operations appear to be common; another emerging requirement is (3) support for novel, backward-incompatible storage hardware. Implementing transactions efficiently.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. They were all designed for slightly different contexts and technological times. Thomas Bohm.

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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Software

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I'm offering an overview of my perspective on the field, which I hope is a unique and interesting take on it, in order to provide context for the work at hand: devising a winning technology strategy for your business.

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