Videos tagged with High Performance

Speaker: Tim BrayTrack: AndroidTime: G [16:30 - 17:15]Room: 1Level: 151Build Android applications that are smooth, fast, responsive, and a pleasure to use. Also, learn about the tools and techniques we use to track down and fix performance problems.

Get more speed out of your external drives with a simple hack. Windows configures your external drives for easy removal, but for those of us who leave them plugged in for long periods of time, there's a simple way to boost performance.

Move your cache and save disk space. Firefox doesn't have an obvious way to move your cache, but with the help of today's Tekzilla Daily, you can point it to any folder you choose.

Performance on Rails, Jeremy Kemper (37signals). About Jeremy Kemper Jeremy Kemper (bitsweat) is a programmer at 37signals hailing from Pasadena, California. Hot on the heels of DHH, he has been the most active contributor to Rails. He’s knee deep in pretty much all aspects of the framework and one of the top batters against new, incoming tickets.  

Three companies recently collaborated to use DTrace, a powerful open source process introspection tool to find and fix a substantial Rails latency issue. Teams from Joyent and Twitter and DTrace developer Bryan Cantrill from Sun joined forces to spend a day looking in detail at how Ruby processes behave within a Rails production environment. The purpose of the collaboration was to use the dynam...

In this talk I will introduce neverblock http://www.espace.com.eg/neverblock. a new Ruby library that enables doing non-blocking IO in a transparent manner. I will show how it can be used to transparently gain IO parallelism in your Ruby (and Rails) web applications. The talk will include a brief introduction to Ruby1.9 Fibers and how they are used in NeverBlock to achieve transparent concurren...

GTAC 2008: The New Genomics - Software Development at Petabyte Scale The Third Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC), Seattle, WA, Oct. 23rd and 24th. Speaker: Matt Wood Google Tech Talks October 23, 2008

GTAC 2008: Using Cloud Computing to Automate Full-Scale System Tests The Third Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC), Seattle, WA, Oct. 23rd and 24th. Speaker: Marc-Elian Begin Google Tech Talks October 23, 2008

This talk will begin with an overview of the Computer Systems group within the College of Engineering and IT at The Australian National University. These fall under the Themes of Bio-Engineering, Robotics, Advanced Runtime Systems, Performance Analysis, Parallel Processing, Operating Systems. Depending on audience interest, projects under the latter three themes will be discussed in detail. The...

Coconut is a developing system for high-assurance, high-performance software. It was used to develop a library of special functions for the Cell BE processor, which is distributed in the Cell BE SDK 3.0 as MASS. Average performance is 4X better than the alternative hand-tuned C library, SimdMath. Coconut has been successful where patterns of efficient hardware-specific computation can be captur...