Posted in Cloud Computing, HPC on May 2nd, 2009
Interesting pair of article from Java World in which the first concentrates on the four design principles for writing cloud-ready, multicore friendly code: atomicity, statelessness, idempotence, and parallelism, and the second concentrates on the mechanics of scalability, reliability, load balancing, and more, in cloud computing’s distributed environments.
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 18th, 2009
Very interesting post on how Twitter could be re-designed to support massive scalability using the GigaSpaces XAP Product. Very in-depth and very informative - http://tinyurl.com/dmrfjl
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Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on Jan 25th, 2009
The Illinois Institute of technology recently published a paper (nov 2008) that looks at how Amdahl’s law applies to multicore processors.It is essentially a rebuffal of the pessimistic view that Hill and Marty presented in their paper on multicore scalability using Amdahl’s law. Their models show that “there is no inherent, immovable upper bound on [...]
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