Questions tagged [scalability]

Scalability is the ability of a system, network, or process, to handle growing amount of work in a capable manner or its ability to be enlarged to accommodate that growth.

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What is scalability in Intel CPU?

Some Intel CPUs have a scalability feature such as i7-4790: Scalability: 1S Only There is no explanation about what this is. Could somebody explain it to me?
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Reliable, free 2D dimensional drawing tool [closed]

So far the CAD programs I have checked don't seem to support what I am looking for - but I'd be happy to be shown wrong :) I want to be able to create dimensioned, scalable 2D drawings - specifically ...
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multiple s3 users in one bucket or per-user buckers

intelligent people, noob here! I am planning on building a multi-user apparatus on s3 for photo/object storage, and I was planning on using s3. I have the whole front-end planned out but I have a ...
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Excel sharepoint scalability

We have a huge set of linked (15+ files) and huge .xlsx and .xlsm spreadsheets (2-17 Mb) on a network drive, and they've grown to a point where it fails in various ways on a daily basis (Office 2010). ...
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How large can a VMware datastore be? Name of VMWare software that monitors single server/multiple servers?

I had an interview and was asked the following questions about VMWare. I'm eager to know the answers, please help me : How large can a VMware datastore be? What is the name of the VMware software ...
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What mind mapping software is scalable to thousands of nodes? [closed]

I've been using XMind for about 3 years. I write down a lot of information in it, which causes the file to become quite large. After a while (>1000 nodes) everything becomes slow - loading, saving, ...
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Is this way of using Excel 2007 Pivot table for BI scalable?

Background: We need to consolidate sales data across the country to do analysis Our Internet connection/IT expertise/IT investment is not quite strong, therefore full BI solution is out of question ...
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How does cron work?

I'd like to write an app that heavily use cron. It'll execute python programs that run in less than a second every minute. How mane of this lines: */1 * * * * python crtip.py parameters my crontab -...
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Implications of using many USB web cameras

I'm looking into connecting multiple low resolution USB webcams to a single computer. What implications might this have on performance? How does, for example, four 320x240 cameras fare against a ...
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Cache coherence literature for big (>=16CPU) systems [closed]

What books and articles can you recommend to learn basis of cache coherence problems in big SMP systems (which are NUMA and ccNUMA really) with >=16 cpu sockets? Something like SGI Altix architecture ...