All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In addition to its goal of reducing energy costs, Shell needed to be more agile in deploying IT services and planning for user demand. Unilever – Unilever R&D program intended to accelerate the company’s scientific progress through improved access to global information. Royal Dutch Shell – is one of the world’s largest companies.

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Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. Provides support for "unread counts", e.g. for email and chat programs. is access to hardware devices. Web Serial, Web Bluetooth, and Web USB enable educational programming tools to help students learn to program physical devices, including LEGO.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

Hosted on commodity clusters or cloud infrastructures, IMDGs harness the power of distributed computing to deliver scalable storage capacity and access throughput, along with integrated high availability. To help ensure fast data access and scalability, IMDGs usually employ a straightforward key/value storage model.

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Scalability Cache Airlines Healthcare 40

ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

Hosted on commodity clusters or cloud infrastructures, IMDGs harness the power of distributed computing to deliver scalable storage capacity and access throughput, along with integrated high availability. To help ensure fast data access and scalability, IMDGs usually employ a straightforward key/value storage model.

Scalability 40

Scalability Cache Airlines Healthcare 40

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. Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) was the focus of the QZFS paper which used this new hardware device to speed up file system compression.

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Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12