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

Brendan Gregg

This included SysAdmin magazine, which contained articles from various experts including Amy Rich, and a couple of advertisements: One was to submit your own articles to the magazine for publication (by writing to the editor, Rikki Endsley) and another was to attend USENIX conferences in the US and learn directly from the experts!

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

Brendan Gregg

This included SysAdmin magazine, which contained articles from various experts including Amy Rich, and a couple of advertisements: One was to submit your own articles to the magazine for publication (by writing to the editor, Rikki Endsley) and another was to attend USENIX conferences in the US and learn directly from the experts!

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

ACM Sigarch

There are three common mechanisms to access remote memory: modifying applications, modifying virtual memory, and hardware-level cache coherence support. About CXL hardware availability with academia. Also, besides the hardware, we see the software ecosystem starts to appear (e.g., Using emulation (e.g.

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Architectural Myopia

ACM Sigarch

Hardware engineers design and implement solutions in RTL, while software engineers attempt to solve the problem either at the OS or application level. At other times, the PC’s response is to push the paper to another conference. We believed existing hardware and OS protocols protected the processor.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - A Decomposition Storage Model

All Things Distributed

Not everybody agreed that the "N-ary Storage Model" (NSM) was the best approach for all workloads but it stayed dominant until hardware constraints, especially on caches, forced the community to revisit some of the alternatives. Khoshafian, in the Proceedings of the 1985 SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data.'

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A thorough introduction to bpftrace

Brendan Gregg

BPF has been extended (aka eBPF) in recent years for providing a safe way to extend kernel functionality, and has become a hot topic in systems engineering, with at least 24 talks on BPF at the last Linux Plumber's conference. hardware Hardware counter-based instrumentation. was just released. BEGIN Start of bpftrace. ^C

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MICRO 2019 Trip Report

ACM Sigarch

Krste Asanovic from UC Berkeley kicked off the main program sharing his experience on “ Rejuvenating Computer Architecture Research with Open-Source Hardware ”. He ended the keynote with a call to action for open hardware and tools to start the next wave of computing innovation. Conference.