HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. What programming languages does HammerDB use and why does it matter? Adoption by the TPC.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

First, a bit of operating-system design context. It is desirable for a program to be able to go to sleep and then wake up a little while later. The answer is hardware interrupts. The OS programs a timer chip that then triggers an interrupt that wakes up the CPU and the OS can then schedule your thread. Decades of madness.

Programming 145

Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

Percona

AUGUST 18, 2023

The original motivation for FB was due to different hardware generations, especially between regions/data centers. for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., AFAIK Facebook does this.

Programming 87

Programming Servers Database Hardware 87

Tech News Gather

AUGUST 25, 2022

The platform is based on a purpose-oriented programming language that is simple to learn. Unlike other programs, it is compatible with both iOS and Android. Because the development is built on a single codebase, it saves time when testing the program across many platforms. Hardware Costs. Dedicated Hiring Model.

Development 52

Development Hardware Mobile Open Source 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

One of the important attributes of their design was easy and rapid deployment across an existing fleet. These techniques work well for scientific programs that are dominated by arrays. However, they are ineffective on object-based programs because objects do not fall neatly into fixed-size blocks and have a more irregular layout.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. We formulate the problem as a Mixed Integer Program (MIP).

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM. The starting point is a set of three asumptions for an NVM-based programming model: Compared to traditional persistent media, NVM is fast.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

C @ns: [256, 512) 10900 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | [512, 1k) 18291 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@| [1k, 2k) 4998 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | [2k, 4k) 57 | | [4k, 8k) 117 | | [8k, 16k) 48 | | [16k, 32k) 109 | | [32k, 64k) 3 | |. The probe is BEGIN , a special probe that runs at the beginning of the program (like awk).

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

From an operator perspective it makes it harder to follow the classic cloud-native design in which a global storage layer is separate to compute. If you want a lightweight, fast-starting, easy to program for, embeddable application runtime that also offers isolation, then a natural choice is V8 isolates. High performance.

Serverless 99

Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

Not all computer science degree programs offer computer architecture classes to undergrads, and ones that do, may offer it as one of many electives. This is arguably a fundamentally hard problem for computer architecture, but efforts towards open source hardware (eg. Lack of Exposure. gem5 ) are baby steps towards this goal.

Architecture 74

Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. that a lot of people used.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Testsigma

JUNE 19, 2020

It is a browser-based test automation tool which is designed to support cross-browser (i.e. testing and is integratable with multiple programming languages (i.e. Testsigma is a test automation ecosystem to plan, design, develop, execute, analyze, and report for continuous testing in Agile and DevOps. Chrome, Firefox, Safari etc.

Testing Tools 60

Testing Tools Testing Open Source Java 60

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

3] Oh, and it should be imperatively programmed with Lisp-in-C's-clothing. Recall that browsers arose atop platforms that universally provided a host of services by the late 90's: system fonts (to support layout programs, including WYSIWYG editing). multi-tasking & concurrent programming. high-color image raster.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

John McCalpin

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

In the latest (October 2016) revision of Intel’s Instruction Extensions Programming Reference , Intel has disclosed a fairly dramatic departure from these “traditional” approaches. Notes on notation: C[i][j] is invariant in the innermost loop, so I refer to the values in the accumulator as elements of the C array.

Cache 40

Cache C++ Latency Hardware 40

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Hardware performance counter results for a simple benchmark code calling Intel’s optimized DGEMM implementation for this processor (from the Intel MKL library) show that about 20% of the dynamic instruction count consists of instructions that are not packed SIMD operations (i.e., addl $1, %eax vfmadd213pd %zmm16, %zmm17, %zmm29.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. This is different from ​​ the reference count design ​​ that was ​​ used in SQL Server 7.0 and ​​ 2000.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

We believe that making these GPU resources available for everyone to use at low cost will drive new innovation in the application of highly parallel programming models. These trade-offs have even impacted the way the lowest level building blocks in our computer architectures have been designed. General Purpose GPU programming.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To help our customers manage ongoing data explosion, we have designed many of the core components over the last few years. I mean that as your scale grows then design patterns and strategies that used to work 2 years ago and allowed you to go from defensive to offensive positioning may buckle under pressure or becomes cost-prohibitive.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52