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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Information Architecture. In her book, Lara Hogan helps you approach projects with page speed in mind, showing you how to test and benchmark which design choices are most critical. This book from 2002 is a brilliant must read: site architecture, security, reliability, and their impact on performance. Designing for Performance.

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This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 19 November 2010 07:51 AM. There was an excellent first benchmarking report of the Cluster GPU Instances by the folks at Cycle Computing - " A Couple More Nails in the Coffin of the Private Compute Cluster " The Top500 supercomputer list. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. We only need to hold the line on script bloat for a few years for devices and networks to overtake the extreme, unconscionable excesses of the 2010's. A 2021 Global Baseline.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

Put another way, the performance gap between what devices the wealthy carry and what budget shoppers carry grew more this year (252 points) than the year-over-year gains from process and architecture at the volume price point (174 points). That's where the good news ends.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Besides that, the numbers can vary greatly depending on many factors, so our goal here is just to provide a few benchmarks that give some sense of the magnitude of potential improvements. Nakanishi, 2010. Wang, 2010. Friedrich, 2010. RE94] Grouplens: an open architecture for collaborative filtering of netnews, P.

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The evolution of single-core bandwidth in multicore processors

John McCalpin

Looking at sustained single-core bandwidth for a kernel composed of 100% reads, the trends for a large set of high-end AMD and Intel processors are shown in the figure below: So from 2010 to 2023, the sustainable single-core bandwidth increased by about 2x on Intel processors and about 5x on AMD processors. Details in the next blog entry.)