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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, 2024

Alex Russell

If you or your company are able to generate a credible worldwide latency estimate in the higher percentiles for next year's update, please get in touch. Since 2010, volumes have been on a slow downward glide path , shrinking from ~350MM per year in a decade ago to ~260MM in 2018.

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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. Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge. Today, either method returns a similar answer.

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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.)