Troublemaker | Computer Architect | @Arm Servers Architect @Google | Previously @RedHat, @Nuvia_Inc | Runner | Author | All views my own | #ArmServers
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3 Nov 2018
Who out there would find a Computer Architecture blog or podcast interesting? What if I arranged to do one in collaboration with folks like @AMD, @Arm, @intelnews, @risc_v?
3 Nov 2018
On some level I agree. But on another I don't. Many friends have entered software engineering without formally studying it, but they're *very* smart women and men who could easily understand this, if it was ever made accessible. I intend to make it more accessible to everyone.
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I enjoy some of the influencer posts here about stuff that nobody does in modern computers. Then I smile as I think about all the invention disclosures Iβve filed over the years covering many of those years ago π
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βWeβre going to swap your electric meter, some time in the next few months! Weβll send you pointless notices with no date then randomly come yank your power without any warning!β β @EversourceMA
I donβt know what kind of βprofessionalsβ they are. Well, I do know.
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I know @EversourceMA isnβt known for their planning or forethought but you might try telling people precisely when you are actually going to turn up outside their house and yank their power in the middle of the day
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Livid would be one way to describe the customer experience this morning. That would be the nice way to describe it.
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Every morning when I do daycare drop off, I make a turn onto a road that clearly has marked boxes on the pavement in front of a police fire station. Every morning I come to a complete stop before entering the box and wait to not block it. And every morning others ignore the rules
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This morning some lady had to awkwardly move her car around others to unblock the box she had blocked as a fire truck tried to get out of the station. I would pull these people over, immediately suspend their license until they prove they know what that very obvious marking means
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I mean American driving standards are absolutely awful to begin with but this stuff just makes me sad. If you learn one thing, learn not to block a fire station please
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Thereβs plenty of gas left in terms of what you can actually build if you think about how the machine really works underneath π
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Nice to see you San Francisco! Until next time π
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United brought back an 8pm transcon from Boston to San Francisco. If youβre willing to get to your hotel at 2am you can again have a full day on East Coast followed by full day on West Coast and redeye back π
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I guess @AlexKatouzian needs to reclaim a twitter handle π
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I really think this is the coolest thing about the @nvidia RTX Spark. Thereβs a very good chance they have the same high quality platform that DGX demonstrated with firmware done the right (boring) way using the standards we pioneered on Arm servers
Iβve said for well over a decade that itβs only a matter of time until mainstream Arm client follows the standardization path we pioneered in server. Fast forward 5 years from now, itβll be just like the x86 PC
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At the time we pushed for these standards as a server ecosystem there wasnβt the gravitational pull to get client to go in the right direction. I personally believe that will begin to change now with mainstream Windows on Arm across client devices
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Did I have to rewind back to the feel good intro montage from @Arm and rewatch @renehaas237 ? No, I didnβt. But man do I love my friends. Nicely done π₯°
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But I would argue that @Arm donβt need to stop at powering the world. Why not aim higher? π
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Like I said, the moment my @nvidia DGX Spark orders showed up at home last fall it only took about 5 minutes to conclude todayβs Windows announcement was coming
I would love to think folks put that much effort into a great SoC just to boot Linux but there was only one answer
When I bought a DGX Spark and took one look at the BIOS and platform info, this much was immediately obvious. I assumed WinPE was already bootable with zero work
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They didnβt take any obvious shortcuts with DGX Spark (letβs ignore the funky PCI topology inside the NIC) while they did make it something that looked entirely like a really - REALLY - well done client part for Windows
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And itβs not a horrifying hacked up ACPI nightmare
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