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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1.

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A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators

ACM Sigarch

EPU: Emotion Processing Unit is designed by Emoshape , as the MCU microchip design to enable a true emotional response in AI, robots and consumer electronic devices as a result of a virtually unlimited cognitive process. HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens.

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How It Works (It Just Runs Faster): Auto Soft NUMA…

SQL Server According to Bob

Automatic soft-NUMA was enabled because SQL Server has detected hardware NUMA nodes with greater than 8 physical cores. One of the reasons that all the other nodes are available but not used is to support dynamic affinity. What does this look like in a Virtual Machine? Windows Server 2012 R2 supports a max of 64 vCPUs per VM.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. It is very gratifying to see all of our learning and experience become available to our customers in the form of an easy-to-use managed service. It provides multi-data center replication, high availability, and offers rock-solid durability. Amazon DynamoDB â?? Comments ().