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Successful tech applications are rarely static: Users’ needs change and expand, and they expect their technology tools’ capabilities to grow and adapt. However, as applications grow in complexity, ...

Over the last year, we have focused on the role burst buffer technology might play in bolstering the I/O capabilities on some of the world’s largest machines and have focused on use cases ranging from ...

Do your J2EE applications run slow? Can they sustain rising traffic? This article describes performance-tuning techniques (PTT) for developing high performance and scalable JSP (JavaServer Pages) ...

A new book by LBNL’s David Bailey and Sam Williams entitled, Performance Tuning of Scientific Applications presents current research in performance analysis from some of the most notable experts in ...

A fellow developer and I have been working on a data collection application primarily written in Perl. The application retrieves measurement files from a directory, parses the files, performs some ...

The terms JVM tuning and Java optimization are often used interchangeably, but there is an important difference between the two practices. In short, JVM tuning requires some tradeoff between metrics ...

This simple formula is at the heart of Hewlett-Packard's new OpenView Application Management portfolio, which was introduced late last month by the Palo Alto, Calif., company. The suite of new and ...