/perfnews/

2/21/2012

• Pixable Architecture - Crawling, Analyzing, and Ranking 20 Million Photos a Day   [highscalability.com]
• ITS finalizing new supercomputer queue - Yale Daily News   [www.yaledailynews.com]
• Apache 2.4 Takes Direct Aim At Nginx   [apache.slashdot.org]
• MySQL Cluster 7.2 release brings legacy tech to big data - ITworld.com   [www.itworld.com]
• How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90%   [mailinator.blogspot.com]
• Met Office wants better supercomputer to predict EXTREME weather   [www.theregister.co.uk]
• Can You Afford Lost Data Center Capacity?   [www.datacenterknowledge.com]
• Flash DOOMED to drive itself off a cliff - boffins - Register   [www.theregister.co.uk]
• Various ways to get randomness wrong   [beust.com]

2/20/2012

• Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 17, 2012   [highscalability.com]
• Synchronizing array_view in C++ AMP   [blogs.msdn.com]
• Exascale by 2018: Crazy ...or possible?   [www.theregister.co.uk]
• How to convert MySQLs SHOW PROFILES into a real profile   [www.mysqlperformanceblog.com]
• World's Greenest Supercomputer Heads Down Under - EarthTechling   [www.earthtechling.com]
• Parallelism in the D programming language   [ddili.org]
• Windows 7 Slow Boot / Slow Logon (Why I do what I do)   [blogs.technet.com]
• SSD drives drop performance for capacity - Consumer Tech   [www.techcentral.ie]
• How To Get Experience Working With Large Datasets   [www.bigfastblog.com]
• Flash Scaling Issues Could Torpedo Its Future - Hot Hardware   [hothardware.com]
• McAfee to update problem Firefox extension - ZDNet UK (blog)   [www.zdnet.co.uk]

2/19/2012

• Ambient cloud storage: cheaper, high availability, but what about security?   [cloudsecurity.trendmicro.com]
• The NoSQL movement   [radar.oreilly.com]
• Why dont our new Nagios plugins use caching?   [www.mysqlperformanceblog.com]
• List of Performance hotfixes post SP1 for Windows 7 SP1   [blogs.technet.com]
• Optimization Rules from Laws?   [www.reddit.com]
• Latency, Bandwidth and the Five Minute Rule   [brooker.co.za]
• Links to post SP1 hotfixes for Windows 7 Service Pack 1   [blogs.technet.com]

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