A modern industrial control system may contain dozens or even hundreds of software tasks, all competing for a finite amount of memory and CPU time. To speed development of such complex systems, ...

One of the many achievements I am not likely ever to add to my short list is writing a good translation of Dante’s Inferno. There are several reasons for this. First, at least one excellent ...

Building an optimal implementation of a system using a functional description has been an industry goal for a long time, but it has proven to be much more difficult than it sounds. The general idea is ...

In the beginning days of Unix and later Linux, disks were physically large, but very small in terms of storage capacity. A 300 megabyte disk in the mid-90’s was the size of a shoebox. Today, you can ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...

It goes by many names, but partitioning is the technology that’s driving a lot of major vendors’ storage releases. To name a few, there are Hitachi Data Systems Corp.’s TagmaStore USP with virtual ...

There are multiple reasons for design partitioning. One is complexity, because it’s faster and simpler to divide and conquer, particularly with third-party IP. A second reason involves power, where it ...