Posts Tagged ‘performance’
April 2020 marks 55 years since Intel co-founder Gordon Moore published ‘Cramming more components onto integrated circuits (pdf)‘, the paper that subsequently became known as the origin for his eponymous law. For over 50 of those years Intel and its competitors kept making Moore’s law come true, but more recently efforts to push down integrated circuit feature size have […]
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Tags: ARM, hardware, Moore's law, performance, x86
AnandTech has published Amazon’s Arm-based Graviton2 against AMD and Intel: Comparing Cloud Compute which includes comprehensive benchmarks across Amazon’s general purpose instance types. The cost analysis section describes ‘An x86 Massacre’, as while the pure performance of the Arm chip is generally in the same region as the x86 competitors, its lower price means the price/performance is substantially […]
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Tags: ARM, aws, benchmark, Graviton2, performance, x86
Performance and Determinism
Background A friend sent me a link to an ‘AI Ops’ company over the weekend asking me if I’d come across them. The product claims to do ‘continuous optimisation’, and it got me wondering why somebody would want such a thing? Let’s explore the Rumsfeld Matrix Known knowns This is where we should be with […]
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Tags: determinism, monitoring, observability, performance, profiling, tuning
Update (14 Mar 2014) Andrew Weir pointed out that I the price is per month not per year – corrected accordingly. The big news of the last day is that Google dropped its pricing for Drive storage to $9.99 per TB per month. Ex Googler Sam Johnston says ‘So the price of storage is now […]
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Tags: cloud, cost, Drive, free, GCE, google, IOPS, performance, storage
Review – Dell PowerEdge T110 II
It’s almost 3 years since I got my HP Microserver – time for a change. 8GB wasn’t enough RAM for all the VMs I want to run, and even with an unofficial upgrade to 16GB I was running out of room. The NL40 processor was starting to show some strain too. The time had come […]
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Tags: benchmark, build, Dell, E3-1220, E3-1220v2, performance, RAM, review, ssd, T110, T110 II, VMs
This post first appeared on the CohesiveFT blog. One of the announcments that seemed to get lost in the noise at this week’s IO conference was that Google Compute Engine (GCE) is now available for everyone. I took it for a quick test drive yesterday, and here are some of my thoughts about what I found. Web interface […]
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Tags: access control, cloud, GCE, gcutil, google, iaas, identity, image management, network, performance, price, SSH, storage, UI, web
More memory, better performance
Since I was so happy with the HP 650 business laptop that I got for my wife, my father in law decided to get one too. I was surprised to find that the Windows Experience Index (WEI) was so much slower than I’d seen on my wife’s machine: It’s no surprise that the memory benchmark […]
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Tags: bandwidth, benchmark, Core, DIMM, experience index, GPU, HD3000, i3, Intel, performance, RAM, SODIMM, WEI, Windows
Lenovo S206 – first impressions
First the really good news – Lenovo (or more specifically their fulfilment partner Digital River) managed to take an order from me and ship (on time) without some major disaster happening (as I’ve suffered before, repeatedly). They seem to have entirely given up on supplying order tracking information, which is little change in practice to […]
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Tags: 11.6", ACHI, AMD, APU, benchmark, driver, E1200, E1800, lenovo, performance, review, S206, ssd, x121e
My friend Randy posted a few days ago on Grid, Cloud, HPC … What’s the Diff?. I started to make a comment on the blog, but it was getting too long so I moved it here. Randy does a good job of pinning down both performance and scalability, but in my experience productivity trumps both. This […]
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Tags: cloud, grid, MPI, parallel processing, performance, productivity, scalability
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