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5.5 mm in 1.25 nanoseconds

Randon ASCII

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. I wrote a lot of benchmarks.

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An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

Throughout this post I've used examples from our public Industry Benchmarks dashboard , which I'd encourage you to check out so that you can explore these metrics on your own. While it's possible to game Lighthouse and get high scores for poorly built pages , for the most part Lighthouse scores and audits are a good thing.

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An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations

The Morning Paper

A micro-benchmark suite, LEBench was then built around tee system calls responsible for most of the time spent in the kernel. On the exact same hardware, the benchmark suite is then used to test 36 Linux release versions from 3.0 Headline results. 14, and after that performance starts to degrade noticeably.

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Changing A Tire On A Moving Car (Or How To Improve Product Roadmaps)

Smashing Magazine

Worse yet, once the work is batched they insert user research that should have been done to inform the original work effort to what the real benchmark (MVP) should be. If you speed up, you’ll likely through off your car’s alignment and loosen up some other critical parts.

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From Heavy Metal to Irrational Exuberance

ACM Sigarch

But any time memory and application logic moves into Python land, it’s game over. I suggest it’s long past time to move beyond C and SPEC benchmarks and our exclusive focus on “metal” languages. So what can we as a research community do to tackle this challenge? Are caches large enough for this code?

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Supercomputing Predictions: Custom CPUs, CXL3.0, and Petalith Architectures

Adrian Cockcroft

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. doubles the speed and adds a lot of features to the existing CXL2.0 petaflops, which is 0.8%

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AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors and SQL Server

SQL Performance

The initial reviews and benchmarks for these processors have been very impressive: AMD EPYC 7002 Series Rome Delivers a Knockout. AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked. TPC-H Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. TPC-E Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. Higher memory speed and bandwidth.

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