AMD MI300x GPUs with GEMM tuning improves throughput and latency by up to 7.2x
Introduction: In Nscale’s latest technical deep dive, we explore a critical aspect of AI model optimisation: throughput benchmarking, performance tuning, and latency reduction using GEMM (General Matrix Multiplication) tuning. Maximising the performance of GPU-accelerated tasks involves more than just raw speed. Optimising GEMM ensures efficient processing, higher throughput, and the ability to handle complex models […]
The Flexipede Revisited
The Flexipede Revisited Kate Sullivan, David Duce, Bob Hopgood On The Flexipede: Hugh ‘Ras’ Riddle: I didn’t see it as significant as I do now.Tony Pritchett: I didn’t think of it that way either. I thought – this is fun! 1. Introduction Tony Pritchett created The Flexipede in 1967, probably the first known character computer […]
How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins
Okay, let’s talk about something other than feed readers for a moment. How about completely broken web browsers? Yeah, those. This. This is a thing. Count the broken: ip – – [28/Jun/2024:14:44:26 -0700] “GET /w/2024/05/27/feed/ HTTP/1.1” 200 8052 ip – – [28/Jun/2024:14:44:26 -0700] “GET /w/2024/05/27/feed/ HTTP/1.1” 200 8052 ip – – [28/Jun/2024:14:44:26 -0700] “GET /w/2024/05/27/feed/ […]
Show HN: Safe Routes. real time turbulence data, ML predictions with an iPad
Fuel Savings Skypath allows pilots to safely navigate rapidly emerging turbulence situations, offering potential cost savings through efficient dispatch routing, informed contingency fuel decisions, and minimized in-flight altitude adjustments.
Neo Geo Architecture: A practical analysis
Supporting imagery Model The Neo Geo ‘AES’.Released on 26/04/1990 in Japan and on 01/07/1991 America and Europe Motherboard MotherboardShowing revision ‘NEO-AES3-6’.I took this photo using the model I bought. Also, the previous owner re-arranged some capacitors to improve the video signal. Motherboard with important parts labelled Diagram Main architecture diagram A quick introduction Straight from […]
Artificial Needles to Real Haystacks: Improving Retrieval Capabilities in LLMs
Abstract:Recent studies have shown that Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle to accurately retrieve information and maintain reasoning capabilities when processing long-context inputs. To address these limitations, we propose a finetuning approach utilizing a carefully designed synthetic dataset comprising numerical key-value retrieval tasks. Our experiments on models like GPT-3.5 Turbo and Mistral 7B demonstrate that finetuning […]
The ‘Pay Phone Bandit’ Who Baffled the FBI in the ’80s
Most of the sightings were the same. Standing in front of the motel clerk or convenience store worker was a man, roughly 5 feet, 9 inches tall, wearing a baseball cap pulled low and almost touching a pair of gold-rimmed eyeglasses. A ponytail stuck out from the back of the hat. A button-down shirt was […]
Microsoft pauses Windows 11 update as it’s sending some PCs into infinite reboot
Windows 11 just got its latest update, but Microsoft has put it on hold following the discovery of a bug that’s seriously bad news. This is the KB5039302 update, which is an optional download for Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2, so it’s still in preview, ahead of its release as the cumulative update for July […]
DevOps: The Funeral
Published on 2023-06-18 by GCH Devops is dead, they say. But the death of Devops is no more than the death of a word. A word – like agile or microservices – that is a tad too open for interpretation. Nobody owns it, therefore everybody can have opinions on it. So can I. Especially now […]
Hacking Amazon’s Eero 6 (part 1)
This is the first in the series of hacking Amazon’s eero 6 (3rd generation) Wi-Fi device. In this post I will be focusing on device disassembly, identifying pins, brute forcing JTAG, and reading serial output. The second part of the blog can be found: https://markuta.com/eero-6-hacking-part-2/ About# Eero is a San Francisco-based wireless Internet company founded […]