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Trying out a dedicated server from Hetzner
(smalldatum.blogspot.com)
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sprachspiel
3y ago
Just tested a i4i.32xlarge: $ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS loop0 7:0 0 24.9M 1 loop /snap/amazon-ssm-agent/7628 loop1 7:1 0 55.7M 1 loop /snap/core18
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sprachspiel
3y ago
This is for 8 SSDs and a single modern PCIe 5.0 has better specs than this.
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SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud
(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
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The Great CPU Stagnation
(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
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Virtual-Memory Assisted Buffer Management [pdf]
(cs.cit.tum.de)
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For systems, research is development and development is research
(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
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DBMS Market Transformation 2021: The Big Picture
(blogs.gartner.com)
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DeWitt Clause, or Can You Benchmark %Database% and Get Away with It
(cube.dev)
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Cloud Network Traffic Within the Same Region Can Be Expensive
(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
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5y ago
These settings control writing back modified pages. The experiments in the paper are read-only. With writes the situation is even worse than shown in the paper (though tuning these settings may help a bit).
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5y ago
This would be exactly the kind of innovation we would need in computer science. Instead we often get stuck in local minima (in this case a 40-year old POSIX interface) without realizing how much pain this causes.
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AWS EC2 Hardware Trends: 2015-2021
(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
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AWS EC2 Hardware Trends: 2015-2021
(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
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What every programmer should know about SSDs
(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
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6y ago
Even after watching these videos and reading lots of articles on the topic, I still find the full C++ memory model extremely hard to understand. However, on x86 there are actually only a couple of things that one needs to understand to writ
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C++ Concurrency Model on x86 for Dummies
(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
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7y ago
Everyone interested in the history of computing should read The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop. The book pretends to be the biography by a little-known, but highly-influential guy named Licklider, but is in fact maybe the best general
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12y ago
Well, the biggest Ivy Bridge EX has 15 cores! There's speculation that the 18 core Haswell-EPs are actually Haswell-EX dies that Intel wants to get rid as fast as possible because these chips have buggy TSX (transactional memory).
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12y ago
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But cold caches are an unrealistic assumption. The top-most levels of a tree will always be in cache, unless you almost never access them -- in which case there's no problem either. Additionally, a radix tree is ordered, whereas a hash
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Google Scholar Metrics for Publications
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A New Era of Transparency in the UK?
(number10.gov.uk)
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Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases [pdf]
(psiexp.ss.uci.edu)
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I wonder how long it will take until there is a market for IP addresses. I suspect once such a market is in place IPv6 will not see widespread adoption, since most IPv4 addresses are not really used.
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What has happened so far: A curfew was put in place, it has done absolutely nothing, the streets are full of people everywhere in the country. There are reports of dozens of deaths. The headquarter of president Mubaraks party is on fire for
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Egyptian Revolution Live [video]
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Larry Page on Entrepreneurship [video]
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Larry Page on How To Change the World With Computer Science [video]
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The Inequality That Matters
(the-american-interest.com)
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