Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. The older Intel Xeon E5-26xx v3 (Haswell) series which was introduced in Q3 of 2014, had a maximum memory bandwidth of 2133MHz. Figure 2: Microsoft Project Olympus. Memory (GiB).

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. mid-priced Androids were slightly faster than 2014's iPhone 6. Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Where Chrome Has Lagged.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145