JSK Flash Games Collection 33
Clemencia Branski
The Zoya Flash collection is available for pre-order now on Zoya.com with an expected ship date of April 1st. Polishes retail for $7/ea or $36 for the full set of 6.
Out of all of the polishes in this collection, this was the most underwhelming for me. Not because it was bad just because it was a medium grey with with silver reflects and nothing colorful really added.
As far as I can tell, the official promotion for this collection has not yet started. I did purchase my bottles from Walmart.com but it is also popping up in stores now. Online the prices are listed at $5.98. This brand seems to price their polishes starting at $3.99.
Much more than a simple lamp. One single object encapsulates stories of men, ghosts and adventurous children. In designing Flash, Studio Job has thought of a led torch intended as a symbol of life, progress, and salvation but also as a flash in the dark, a destroyer of shadows and an icon of the ambiguity of the universe.
But believe me there is so much more to this collection than a cracking title. This is a collection which gets to the heart of families and their complexities. It takes us on a journey from childhood to marriage, parenthood and back again.
Amazing read number two is the latest collection of flash fiction by Laura Besley. Published by Irish Indie publisher Beir Bua Press (Un) Natural Elements is ready and waiting to blow your literary socks off!
And last but by no means least is the wonderful collection of short stories Safely Gathered In by Sarah Schofield. Published by Comma Press this is a collection of stories that will haunt you in all the right ways.
Fly On The Wall Press are one of my favourite discoveries of the past couple of years. From their literary stable has bolted some of the best poetry and flash fiction. And their latest release How To Bring Him Back: A story by Claire HM is no exception.
A novella in flash set across two time frames, roughly 20 years apart, this is story of Cait. Present day Cait is on her yearly writing retreat, trying to conjure up a long overdue apology which only now is she ready to write.
Weaving the magic that keeps great flash fiction alive Claire creates and then develops three believable and compelling characters. Each has their own motivations, each with their own exploitable flaws, which burst from the page. Their interactions are by turn tender, disturbing, painful and delightfully complex.
Human Terrain is a collection of 20 short stories, some almost flash length, which concentrate very much on the human condition; on those things that motivate and bind us. The things that both hold us back and drive us forward.
Diversity and adversity run through this collection like welcome silver threads. We meet characters who are up against it, who are doing what they need to do to survive both physically and emotionally. We witness self destruction and self awareness in equal measure, but we are invited to view them through a three dimensional, empathetic lens.
This collection is diverse and genre defying. It is as book filled with every kind of emotion. It will make you laugh, make you smile and sometimes make you cry. Laura is a master of commanding few words for maximum impact. From the thoughts of a grieving mother, to realms of outer space, this volume becomes a beautiful, engaging and colourful journey.
Brevity might be the key in this collection, but each tale has as an impeccable structure, a view point that pans like a camera, zooming in and out, drawing the readers eye to the heart of each matter every single time.
We present SWAN, a novel All Flash Array (AFA) management scheme. Recent flash SSDs provide high I/O bandwidth (e.g., 3-10GB/s) so the storage bandwidth can easily surpass the network bandwidth by aggregating a few SSDs. However, it is still challenging to unlock the full performance of SSDs. The main source of performance degradation is garbage collection (GC). We find that existing AFA designs are susceptible to GC at SSD-level and AFA software-level. In designing SWAN, we aim to alleviate the performance interference caused by GC at both levels. Unlike the commonly used temporal separation approach that performs GC at idle time, we take a spatial separation approach that partitions SSDs into the front-end SSDs dedicated to serve write requests and the back-end SSDs where GC is performed. Compared to temporal separation of GC and application I/O, which is hard to be controlled by AFA software, our approach guarantees that the storage bandwidth always matches the full network performance without being interfered by AFA-level GC. Our analytical model confirms this if the size of front-end SSDs and the back-end SSDs are properly configured. We provide extensive evaluations that show SWAN is effective for a variety of workloads.
Earlier in this Storage for DBAs blog series I wrote an article about one of my least favourite practices in the world of hard disk drives: over-provisioning. I now have to own up and confess that in the world of flash we do pretty much the same thing, although for slightly different reasons (and without the massive overhead of power, cooling and real-estate costs that makes me so mad with disk).
To ensure that there is always enough room for garbage collection to continue (as well as to allow for things like bad blocks, wear levelling etc), pretty much every flash device vendor (from SSDs through to All Flash Arrays) uses the same trick:
Since I work for Violin Memory it would be remiss of me not to discuss the concept of format levels at this point. When you buy flash in the form of SSDs, or flash arrays that contain SSDs, the amount of over-provisioning is generally fixed. Almost all SSDs have a predefined over-provision area and that cannot be changed (if there is an SSD on the market that allows this, I am not aware of it).
I see this as a great benefit because some workloads are very read-intensive and so a large over-provision would essentially be a waste of good flash. Conversely some workloads are so write-heavy that the hard limits found on an SSD device would not be suitable. In general I believe that choice (as long as it comes with advice) is a good thing.
I agree. I blame those Java developers for inventing the phrase, which the flash industry seems to have adopted. In fact, my esteemed Violin colleague Steve Willson gives an excellent talk on flash management in which he shows garbage collection as essentially a massive game of Tetris where blocks need to be fitted into the available holes in order to reach the best efficiency. I love that image and may even steal it for the next post.
So, the extra headroom area is used when we run into a situation where the garbage collection process is not keeping up with the amount of write activity and we are hitting a state where not enough space is available to copy the used blocks somewhere else in order to erase them?
No, actually there is no specific area allocated or reserved for garbage collection. As a simplification, most flash systems write in a circular manner, so that the oldest blocks and pages are re-used first. The extra, unadvertised, capacity is just a way of ensuring that the system does not hit gridlock.
Garbage collection seems to be analogous to the defrag utility used to rewrite data in contiguous LBAs after several delete operations in a HDD. In order to do this we need a certain amount of unused LBAs to temporarily move the data and rewrite them contiguously.
l love this blog post, how author delves into the crucial role of garbage collection (GC) in flash memory systems. They vividly illustrate how without effective GC, stale data accumulates, rendering the flash storage nearly unusable. The concept of over-provisioning is introduced as a smart solution, ensuring smooth GC operations and optimal flash performance. This post provides valuable insights into the intricacies of flash storage management.
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BoxLunch enters the multiverse with their new collection inspired by The Flash! This 21-piece assortment features apparel, accessories, and more, all inspired by The Flash, Batman, and more DC favorites.
More than 250 books and journals were recently donated to establish a Flash Fiction Collection at the Harry Ransom Center. The collection includes anthologies, journals, chapbooks, single-author collections, and books about the writing of flash fiction.
This is a guide on how to import the Flashpoint flash games collection into Launchbox the proper way - each game is listed with image and metadata, and they are working with use of the required redirector and web server. 10015 games with the latest version:
3. Now test the Flashpoint app to make sure that everything is working. The collection comes with its own game browser; they used to use Launchbox but moved to a more stripped down and modified browser. When you launch a game via the browser, it should start the web server and redirector. Most games (not all!) require these processes to be running, otherwise the game will not work.
5. Transfer the relevant files from the Flashpoint download to your Launchbox - the data files (XMLs, located in Arcade/Data/Platforms in the Flashpoint collection, and in Launchbox/Data/Platforms in Launchbox) and the image files.
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