The Pith of Performance

As a chemist in a former life , I can't help but comment on this watershed moment in science, even though it's probably been blogged...

NewScientist reports that Japanese physicists timed a crowd of 50 women(?) as they exited as fast as possible through a door. They then re...

For those of you following my travails in quantum information processing , our most recent work just appeared in the prestigious open-access...

Prior to the appearance of special relativity theory (SRT) in 1905, physicists were under the impression that space and time are completely ...

How do you determine where the response-time "knee" occurs? This is a question one commonly hears with reference to characterizing...

Suppose two workloads $W_a$ and $W_b$ access a common resource, e.g., the CPU. They each have response times $R_a$ and $R_b$, respectively. ...

One of the (unscheduled) plenary sessions at Velocity 2009 , was entitled: “Why elasticity, performance, and analytics will change how Webop...