This is Sysadmin Sunday, a post of interesting links from throughout the previous week.
- Adding the Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances – new instance type on Amazon EC2: the Cluster GPU instance adds two NVIDIA Telsa M2050 GPUs offering GPU-based computational power of over one TeraFLOPS per instance.
- MySQL in the cloud at Airbnb using Amazon RDS.
- Measuring Availability in Confidence – is pure up/down x nine’s sufficient?
- Improve Linux performance under load with 2 commands – an interesting alternative to a kernel patch, with benchmarks.
- Comparing MySQL and Postgres 9.0 Replication
- 128-bit storage: are you high? Fully populating a 128-bit storage pool would, literally, require more energy than boiling the oceans.
Subscribe to our RSS feed and follow us on Twitter for interesting links throughout the week.
