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Presentations From Ugur Candan
What is Information?
This is a short film by MAYA Design about information. Although most of us think we know what we mean when we say “information,” we sometimes confuse the medium with the message. This is a companion piece to our film about architecture.
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I was in search for a good definition for a software architecture. I had noticed this fantastic video about “what achitecture is”. This is a short film by MAYA Design about architecture in its broadest sense. This film is a companion piece to our film about information. I really appreciated the ease of use and clarity.
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Integrating CUDA into a Large-Scale Commercial Database Management System Richard Wilton, Tamas Budavari, Alex Szalay – The Johns Hopkins University In a large-scale database installation where data tables are distributed across multiple servers, computational throughput can be optimized by using GPUs on each server and integrating database management with GPU resources. In the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University, we are experimenting with a set of software tools that closely couple SQL statements…
Read MoreWhat is Next for CPU?
Power Wall+ Memory Wall + ILP (Instruction level parallelism) Wall= Brick Wall There are two ways to scale speed by a factor x. Scale the number of (running) cores by x Power will scale by the same factor x Scale the clock frequency f and voltage V by x Dynamic power will scale by x to the power 3 (CV2f ) Static power will scale by x (Vileakage) Total power lies somewhere in between Clock scaling is worse…
Read MoreExadata is Still Oracle
View more from ugur candan. Oracle Exadata Database Machine – Storage, architecture, database machine Exadata for Datawarehousing – Why Exadata is not Not an Intelligent Storage Not Shared Anything Not enable High Concurrency Not support Active Datawarehousing Not provide Superior Query Performance Is Complex
Read MoreSybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 15.5 Performance Evaluation using Fusion-io Solid State Memory
In a system experiencing data growth, when cache sizes are insufficient to store most hot tables and indexes, moving all data and logging to an SSD device increases performance throughput up to 13X
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