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C&B Session: atomic Weapons – The C++11 Memory Model and Modern Hardware

Sutter's Mill

Here’s another deep session for C&B 2012 on August 5-8 – if you haven’t registered yet, register soon. But there’s just so much about C++11 to cover, so here’s a fourth brand-new session I’ll do at C&B 2012 that goes deeper on its topic than I’ve ever been willing to go before. This session in one word: Deep.

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Two Sessions: C++ Concurrency and Parallelism – 2012 State of the Art (and Standard)

Sutter's Mill

I’m going to put them together especially and only for C++ and Beyond 2012 , and I’ll be giving them nowhere else this year: C++ Concurrency – 2012 State of the Art (and Standard). C++ Parallelism – 2012 State of the Art (and Standard). This isn’t just cool stuff – it’s important and useful in production code today.

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A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators

ACM Sigarch

HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens. To my best knowledge, even though the term NPU was first mentioned in a MICRO 2012 paper by Hadi Esmaeilzadeh et al. , the first commercial product named after NPU in industry is from Vimicro in 2016. GPU can also be considered as a special SPU.

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How It Works: SQL Server 2016 SSE/AVX Support

SQL Server According to Bob

As indicated, SQL Server 2016 added the use of SSE and AVX instructions in various code paths to improve performance. SQL Server asks the CPU if it supports SSE or AVX in order to determine the level of hardware support present on the system. Windows 2012 R2 and newer releases have been enlightened the Crypto* APIs.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. Using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio , you can now deploy your.NET applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk directly from your Visual Studio environment without changing any code. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

” Each step has been a twist on “what if we could write code to interact with a tamper-resistant ledger in real-time?” Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. Mental contortions led to code contortions led to frustration. And, often, to giving up.

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iOS Performance Tricks To Make Your App Feel More Performant

Smashing Magazine

Although modern iOS hardware is powerful enough to handle many intensive and complex tasks, the device could still feel unresponsive if you are not careful about how your app performs. By default, the code inside view controller lifecycle methods (such as viewDidLoad) and IBOutlet functions are executed on the main thread.