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Brendan Gregg
JULY 4, 2021
It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.
Brendan Gregg
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it.
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ACM Sigarch
APRIL 26, 2018
HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens. Image Processing Unit (IPU) is the Pixel Visual Core designed by Google and integrated in Google Pixel 2 released in 2017. Compared with Google Pixel 1, the HDR photography is accelerated by 5x and the power efficiency increased by 10x.
Brendan Gregg
JULY 4, 2021
It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.
Brendan Gregg
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. It was a great privilege.
The Morning Paper
MAY 21, 2019
This makes memory a critical factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of large compute clusters, or as Google like to call them “Warehouse-scale computers (WSCs).” ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Enter zswap!
Alex Russell
MARCH 6, 2021
Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain.
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