article thumbnail

What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel.

Storage 130
article thumbnail

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. She leads the Merced Computer Architecture Lab for energy-efficient, reliable, and secure computer architecture and systems research.

Latency 52
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Slower Memory Zeroing Through Parallelism

Randon ASCII

Downloads go through the cache, the cache is saved to disk, and saves to disk are slowed by (some) anti-virus software. I’d been testing on a virtual machine in a data center that I had access to, purely because this machine has an internet connection that runs at over 2 Gbps. It looks like this can happen. Case closed.

Cache 105
article thumbnail

Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Now in development in WebKit after years of radio silence, WebXR APIs provide Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality input and scene information to web applications. An extension to Service Workers that enables browsers to present users with cached content when offline. Content Indexing. PWA App Shortcuts.

Media 145
article thumbnail

The State Of Web Workers In 2021

Smashing Magazine

First and foremost, this allows you to implement arbitrarily complex caching behavior, but it has also been extended to let you tap into long-running background fetches, push notifications, and other functionality that requires code to run without an associated page. Green Energy Efficient Progressive Web Apps ,” David, Microsoft DevBlogs.

Games 145
article thumbnail

The Winds of Architecture Changes at the USENIX ATC 2019

ACM Sigarch

GAIA proposed to expand the OS page cache into accelerator memory. The OS page cache serves as a cache for file accesses and plays an important role in core OS services, such as memory-mapped files. A fairly large batch of papers focused on the study of novel OS architectures for systems with accelerators.