ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They unveiled their first two embedded AI chips fabricated with TSMC 40nm process in December 2017: “Journey 1.0 They introduced the architecture of coarse grain reconfigurable array (CGRA) for statically scheduled data flow computing in HOTCHIPS’17 and its software stack of compiler and linker in ICCAD’17.

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Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. Software Update License & Support (annual). $0. In fact, PostgreSQL is so popular, 11.5% Oracle Enterprise Edition. Single Database Edition Costs. $0.

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

link] , 2021 [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] , Apr 2021 [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Software-based clocksources could fix those issues and provide accurate monotonically-increasing time. Theory (A) is most likely based on the frame widths in the flame graph.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. PostgreSQL software supports synchronous streaming replication, asynchronous streaming replication, and logical replication.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 81

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability is a cornerstone of any database system and starting with SQL Server 2017 on Linux Cumulative Update 6 (CU6), SQL Server on Linux enables “Forced Flush” behavior as described in this article , improving durability on non-Fua optimized systems. “Be Linux may need similar utilities to control various hardware cache installations.

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Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” This contains updated and new material that reflects the latest C++ standards and compilers, with a focus to using modern C++11/14/17 effectively on modern hardware and memory architectures. On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.”

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Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

There is a single SQL Server database at the heart of every SentryOne monitoring environment, and this customer was monitoring around 600 servers with our software. Query Store 2017 to the Rescue. In SQL Server 2017 and above, Query Store captures query-level waits in addition to query resource consumption.

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Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. Vertical scaling is also often discussed, which involves increasing the resources of a single server, which can have limitations in hardware capabilities and become costly as demands grow. An example is running MongoDB on Mesos.

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Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 70

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

I recently profiled a page on a Pixel 2 (released in 2017), and an Alcatel 1x (released in 2018). Hardware gets better, sure. Software teams can reduce the environmental impact of device manufacturing, even if they don’t make devices themselves. The two devices represent very different ends of the spectrum. It makes sense.

Performance 111

Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Lest we assume low-end means "short-lived", recent announcements regarding software support for these devices will considerably extend their impact.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

CSS Wizardry

APRIL 2, 2018

Here are my top five most-played tracks of 2017’s 70,000 minutes: However, after recently discussing one of my all-time favourite tracks with a friend, and, bizarrely enough, with Nu:Tone himself, I decided that I wanted to start taking my listening a little more seriously. At home, I’m used to just streaming Spotify through an Amazon Echo.

Website 108

Website Media Hardware Monitoring 108

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

WebGL 2 launched for other platforms on Chrome and Firefox in 2017. is access to hardware devices. Provides safe access to USB devices from the web, enabling new classes of applications in the browser from education to software development and debugging. The underlying graphics capabilities from OpenGL ES 3.0 Web Serial.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Here are five considerations every software architect and developer needs to take into account when setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform. As Tyler Akiadu, from Google, explained in his Strata NY 2017 presentation, “ Foundations of streaming SQL ”: “Streams are the in-motion form of data, both bounded and unbounded.”

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Software-based clocksources could fix those issues and provide accurate monotonically-increasing time. Theory (A) is most likely based on the frame widths in the flame graph.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel prize in Economics for his work on Behavioral Economics. Hardware engineers design and implement solutions in RTL, while software engineers attempt to solve the problem either at the OS or application level. We believed existing hardware and OS protocols protected the processor.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 19, 2020

STELLA: report from the SNAFU-catchers workshop on coping with complexity , Woods 2017, Coping with Complexity workshop. “Coping with complexity” is about as good a three-word summary of the systems and software challenges facing us over the next decade as I can imagine. A digression on complexity budgets.

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C++ Systems Software Software 50

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Introduction: In December 2017, my colleague Damon McDougall (now at AMD) asked for help in porting the fused multiply-add example code from a Colfax report ( [link] ) to the Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) processors here at TACC. A peculiar throughput limitation on Intel’s Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing). cmpl $1000000000, %eax.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

I generated this using my offcputime tool from [bcc] (this tool needs eBPF features from Linux 4.8+), and my [flame graph] software: #./bcc/tools/offcputime.py rc5-virtual (bgregg-xenial-bpf-i-0b7296777a2585be1) 08/01/2017 _x86_64_ (8 CPU) 10:15:51 PM UID PID %usr %system %guest %CPU CPU Command 10:16:51 PM 0 18468 2.85 termc$ uptime.

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Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Gatsby.js (React), Preact CLI , and PWA Starter Kit provide reasonable defaults for fast loading out of the box on average mobile hardware. Image credit: Addy Osmani ) ( Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 103