All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. In my many conversations with customers, and with the media, I encountered surprise and excitement about the extent that European enterprises have already been using the Amazon Web Services for some time.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Additionally, many high-end HPC applications take advantage of knowing their in-house hardware platforms to achieve major speedup by exploiting the specific processor architecture. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed. Comments (). until today.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. The early GPU systems were very vendor specific and mostly consisted of graphic operators implemented in hardware being able to operate on data streams in parallel. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Predictably, they are over-represented in analytics and logs owing to wealth-related factors including superior network access and performance hysteresis."

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. But the hardware future is not evenly distributed, and web workloads aren't heavily parallel. Mind The Gap.

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