Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Custom HPC optimized CPUs and GPUs will become the mainstream in the next few years, with chiplets based on the ARM and RISC-V pattern libraries and tooling, with competition between cloud providers, startups and the large systems vendors. To me this positions Fugaku as the first of a new mainstream, rather than a special purpose system.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 10, 2019

…software operating on persistent data structures requires "global" pointers that remain valid after a process terminates, while hardware requires that a diverse set of devices all have the same mappings they need for bulk transfers to and from memory, and that they be able to do so for a potentially heterogeneous memory system. ."

Hardware 52

Hardware Virtualization Operating System Programming 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

The paper examines the implications of microservices at the hardware, OS and networking stack, cluster management, and application framework levels, as well as the impact of tail latency. Smaller microservices demonstrated much better instruction-cache locality than their monolithic counterparts. Hardware implications.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

All of the SPECfp_rate2000 results were downloaded from www.spec.org, the results were sorted by processor type, and “peak floating-point operations per cycle” was manually added for each processor type. This includes all architectures, all compilers, all operating systems, and all system configurations.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

The Morning Paper

APRIL 14, 2019

Microarchitectural state of interest includes data and instruction caches, TLBs, branch predictors, instruction- and data-prefetcher state machines, and DRAM row buffers. cache) can be partitioned across domains; for those that are instead time-multiplexed, we have to flush them during domain switches.

Hardware 44

Hardware Cache Latency Speed 44

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. This means that the overheads of system calls become much more noticeable. in front of that memory , as we saw last week).

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well. Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. This cache is often supported by a battery-powered backup facility.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

DBCC Page Auditing DBCC page auditing is the process of executing common DBCC consistency checks as pages are read from disk. Time of Last Access The time of last access is a caching ​​ algorithm ​​ that enables ​​ cache ​​ entries to be ordered by their ​​ access times.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

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. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128