GPUs started out as devices meant purely for graphics rendering, but their highly parallel nature made them attractive for certain compute tasks too. As the GPU compute scene grew over the past couple decades, Nvidia made massive investments to capture the…

学生思维？学校恶习！正好最近高考结束了，看看下面这些在学校里养成的 100 多条坏习惯，你中招了几个？…

In software, it is common to represent time as a time-stamp string. It is usually specified by a time format string. Some standards use the format%Y%m%d%H%M%S meaning that we print the year, the month, the day, the hours, the minutes and the seconds. The…

Suppose that you want to reorder, arbitrarily, the bits in a 64-bit word. This question was raised on Twitter by @experquisite. Formally, you might want to provide, for each of the 64 bit position, an original bit position you want to copy. Hence, the following…

RISC-V Architecture Profiles. Contribute to riscv/riscv-profiles development by creating an account on GitHub.

Recently, curiosity drove me to do some microbenchmarking on Lambda Cloud’s A100 instance. That A100 instance is powered by a “AMD EPYC 7J13 64-Core Processor”. AMD’s site does not mention this SKU, nor is it listed on Wikipedia’s Epyc page. lscpu claims…

Women in highly religious relationships report the highest levels of relationship quality. US politics is largely divided into two parties (Republicans and Democrats). People who are affiliated with the Republicans have many more kids. The Antartic ice shelves…

Performed on 2020/02/12, Taipei, Taiwan
Conductor：Fang-Pei Tracy Lien 連芳貝
Pianist：Hsin-Jung Hsieh 謝欣容
Composer & Lyrics：Chun-Da Huang 黃俊達
Audio recording engineer：Chao-Hui Wang 王昭惠

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PLIC Specification. Contribute to riscv/riscv-plic-spec development by creating an account on GitHub.

Starting from version 2023.66594-9, TeX Live packages have been reorganized to mirror upstream collections. Even though the new texlive-basic replaces the old texlive-core, many of the texlive-core contents (including language specific files) are now split…

In a previous article, we compared Infinity Cache latency between the RX 7900 XTX, and the smaller RX 7600. After further testing, some correction is in order. AMD’s RDNA 3 architecture uses aggressive power saving techniques. Part of this seems to involve…