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Configuration Testing – An Introduction

Testlodge

A software tester’s work life includes making sure that systems that have been designed to achieve specific results behave exactly as they should. These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. What is Configuration Testing?

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Are Computer Architects to Blame for the State of Security Today?

ACM Sigarch

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. hardware support for malware detection/prevention).

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf. I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty). Or even on a plane.

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Current status, needs, and challenges in Heterogeneous and Composable Memory from the HCM workshop (HPCA’23)

ACM Sigarch

using Compute Express Link or CXL), organizing memory components for optimal performance, adapting system software traditionally designed for homogeneous memory systems, and developing memory abstractions and programming constructs for HCM management. This article lays out the ideas and discussions shared at the workshop.

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A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators

ACM Sigarch

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. HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens. FPU: Floating Processing Unit (FPU).

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Segmentation Fault – A DBA Perspective

Percona

I tried to search for details related to segmentation fault on the internet and found many articles; however, it failed to quench my thirst as none of them had the answer I was looking for. Here, virtual(logical) to physical address translation is much easier as segment tables store adequate information. 0ubuntu1~20.04.1)

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf. I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty). Or even on a plane.