All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. Jul 4 - Leases: An efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency , Gray, Cary, and David Cheriton, Vol. Comments ().

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. 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.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary of types of applications for supercomputers We spent most of the conference walking around the expo and talking to people, rather than attending technical sessions, and asked several people why other vendors weren’t copying Fugaku, and what improvements in architecture were on the horizon. It has wide industry support, CXL3.0

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

For the last three years, the SustainableUX conference has seen experts in web sustainability sharing their knowledge across an array of web-based disciplines. For the more adventurous/technical, the top (table of processes) command provides similar metrics on most Unix-like operating systems such as macOS and Ubuntu.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. USENIX ATC is a top-tier venue with a broad range of systems research papers from both industry and academia.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12