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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. register files? So, anyway.

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

Brendan Gregg

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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

Brendan Gregg

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Critical for gaming with a mouse. Delayed five years. Gamepad API.

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From Heavy Metal to Irrational Exuberance

ACM Sigarch

To be clear, these languages were not designed to be fast or space-efficient, but for ease of use. Unfortunately, languages like Python have proven resistant to efficient implementation, partly because of their design, and partly because of limitations imposed by the need to interop with C code. Are caches large enough for this code?

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Embrace event-driven computing: Amazon expands DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers

All Things Distributed

Streams provide you with the underlying infrastructure to create new applications, such as continuously updated free-text search indexes, caches, or other creative extensions requiring up-to-date table changes. DynamoDB Streams simplifies and improves this design pattern with a distributed systems approach. Summing It All Up.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version.