Why SambaNova's SN40L Chip is the Best for Inference
Written as an employee of SambaNova. This post attracted significant social media and press attention.
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Long-form writing on computer architecture, codesign, research practice, and the engineering systems around them.
Using Mixed Precision on RDUs
Written as an employee of SambaNova.
Read articleA Template for Writing a Microarchitecture Specification
Figure 1. My prompt to Gemini: "please generate a banner image suitable for a 'how to write a microarchitecture specification' blog post." Architecture and microarchitecture are two different levels of abstraction. The …
Read articleWhy Codesign is Important (Architecture Spec Series, Part 1)
Computer architecture is all about balance. Nail it, and you’ve got yourself a rock-solid, one-of-a-kind platform with some seriously cool features and a lot of developers. Maybe even a $1T cap. But if you trip up even …
Read articleMore Tutorials Coming Soon
It’s been about two years since I did my last blog post. Been too busy with my PhD, I guess! Now that I should be done in the next few months, I am planning to begin actively posting on this blog again. I’ll be focusing …
Read articleNew Wikipedia Article on Energy Proportionality
I’ve started a new Wikipedia article on basic concepts and research efforts in energy proportionality. You can read and contribute to it here.
Read articleA Brief Git Tutorial for Collaborative Research
Continuing in the trend I’ve established with some technical tutorials that have proven to be useful to others, I’ve decided to write another brief one, this time focusing on Git version control for researchers. Why the …
Read articleEasily Running SPEC CPU2006 Benchmarks in the gem5 Simulator
It appears that a good number of people found my articles from 2013 on building gem5 and SPEC CPU2006 benchmarks for Alpha useful! So due to some requests I’ve decided to make an additional post on how to get the SPEC …
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