Database administrators at the Swiss foundation Switch were increasingly encountering corrupt data, which prompted a painstaking bug hunt. The solution they found increased performance by a factor of six.

Not all PC settings – traditionally optimized for magnetic hard disks – are suitable for solid state drives. We show you how to configure Windows 10 for optimal operation with SSDs.

One of the key bottlenecks for HPC application performance is memory bandwidth: literally, how fast you can get data from memory to the processor and back. A convenient microbenchmark named Stream measures the memory bandwidth of nodes and reveals a general trend over the last six years that might surprise you.