What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing (2023)(blog.codingconfessions.com)

165 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 31 comments

How many lines of C it takes to execute a + b in Python(codeconfessions.substack.com)

263 points by taubek 2 years ago | 153 comments

CPython's Garbage Collector and Its Impact on Application Performance(blog.codingconfessions.com)

9 points by guytv 1 year ago | 0 comments

How simultaneous multithreading works under the hood(blog.codingconfessions.com)

301 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 116 comments

The CAP theorem of Clustering: Why Every Algorithm Must Sacrifice Something(blog.codingconfessions.com)

195 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 21 comments

What Makes System Calls Expensive: A Linux Internals Deep Dive(blog.codingconfessions.com)

45 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 4 comments

GPUs Go Brrr(hazyresearch.stanford.edu)

1056 points by nmstoker 2 years ago | 243 comments

Stanford Hazy Research blog post on what GPU hardware wants for efficient AI kernels, introducing the ThunderKittens CUDA kernel library.

We were wrong about GPUs(fly.io)

834 points by mxstbr 1 year ago | 529 comments

Fly.io blog post reflecting on how the company's bet on offering GPU machines to developers did not pan out as expected.

The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

399 points by DvdGiessen 1 year ago | 408 comments

Blog post by Matthew Garrett arguing that GPUs, not TPMs, are the real root of hardware DRM; the capture shows a Dreamwidth captcha page instead.

AMD may get across the CUDA moat(hpcwire.com)

498 points by danzheng 3 years ago | 266 comments

HPCwire article by Doug Eadline discussing how AMD's Instinct GPUs and software stack might overcome Nvidia's CUDA software lock-in for GenAI workloads.

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features(xda-developers.com)

930 points by haunter 5 months ago | 571 comments

XDA Developers article explaining how Linux gaming performance is improving as Windows API behaviors are implemented as Linux kernel features.

TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term(uncoveralpha.com)

375 points by vegasbrianc 11 months ago | 278 comments

A Substack deep dive from UncoverAlpha on Google's TPU chips, covering their technical design, strategic position versus GPUs, and financial implications for AI inference.