PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

The ranking of the supercomputers in the Top500 list is determined by their performance as measured in specific tests. FLOPS , or number of floating point operations per second, is a common measure of computer performance. This is also commonly known as “double precision” on many computer systems. The Top500 list (Nov 2018).

Energy 40

Energy Benchmarking Efficiency Website 40

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? From 2008 to 2013, the Chrome project was based on WebKit, and a growing team of Chrome engineers began to contribute heavily "upstream." If no, please explain why not.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

Prior to SQL Server 2012, the maximum server memory value only applied to the bufferpool, so customers needed to limit the amount of memory the bufferpool could use to save memory for the operating system and other processes. Fragmentation occurs through regular operations such as inserts, updates and deletes.

Servers 49

Servers Azure Hardware Database 49