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Are there any guidelines for calculating hardware requirements in a containerized environment?
At an architectural section of an interview I was asked to produce hardware requirements for a certain system I designed. It was a microservice-based system which runs in Kubernetes, Openshift or any ...
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Modelling multi-device manufacture machinery software
We are building a multi-device (different vendors, different types) manufacture machinery where these device work together orchestrated by our software and operated by a human being to create various ...
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What do the Trapezoid-shaped boxes mean in this schematic diagram of RISC architectures (from Wirth's compiler construction)
I am currently browsing through Niklas Wirth's compiler construction book. He presents a simple RISC architecture as a target for code generation using the following diagram. The symbols/shapes used ...
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How does cuRAND use a GPU to accelerate random number generation? Don't those require a state?
My understanding is that every PRNG or QRNG requires a state to prevent the next item in its sequence from being too predictable; which is sensible, as they're all running on deterministic hardware.
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Architecture for Large-Scale Matrix Multiplication: Distributed Architecture or One Strong Server
I've asked a question about Scaling Matrix Multiplication by CPU Cores on StackOverflow and it seems that merely adding more CPU cores to this problem won't reduce the time to do Matrix ...
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Making an automotive system more 'modular' in terms of software?
I am working on an automotive project that we are supposed to make more modular. I am a software specialist and I have very little knowledge of automotive hardware. I don't have any requirements or ...
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DDD / Optimizing a specific service belonging to a specific bounded context regarding hardware
Well known is the split of a whole application into several bounded contexts to emerge an Ubiquitous language. while practicing Domain-Driven Design.
In general, 1 bounded context = 1 archive file ...
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How do libraries such as DirectX relate to drivers?
I've always been curious, how libraries such as DirectX, OpenGL and OpenAL are implemented. Do they use some sort of unified API provided by OS? Talk directly to kernel? Maybe hardware drivers provide ...
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