How RAM Works: Interactive Deep Dive into Computer Memory
Explore the inner workings of RAM through beautiful animations and interactive visualizations. Understand memory cells, addressing, and the memory hierarchy.
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Memory Systems
Memory architectures, management, and optimization in AI and computing systems.
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All Memory Systems Concepts
TLB: How CPUs Translate Virtual to Physical Memory
Deep dive into Translation Lookaside Buffers - the critical cache that makes virtual memory fast. Interactive visualizations of address translation, page walks, and TLB management.
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Memory Controllers: The Brain Behind RAM Management
Explore how memory controllers orchestrate data flow between CPU and RAM. Interactive visualizations of channels, ranks, banks, and the complex scheduling that maximizes memory bandwidth.
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Virtual Memory & Paging: Abstracting Physical Memory
Explore virtual memory management through interactive visualizations of page tables, TLB operations, page faults, and memory mapping.
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CPU Cache Lines: The Unit of Memory Transfer
Explore how CPU cache lines work, understand spatial locality, and see why memory access patterns dramatically impact performance through interactive visualizations.
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Memory Access Patterns: Sequential vs Strided
Understand how different memory access patterns impact cache performance, prefetcher efficiency, and overall application speed through interactive visualizations.
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NUMA Architecture: Non-Uniform Memory Access
Explore NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) architecture, understanding how modern multi-socket systems manage memory locality and the performance implications of local vs remote memory access.
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Memory Interleaving: Parallel Memory Access
Understand how memory interleaving distributes addresses across multiple banks to enable parallel access, dramatically improving memory bandwidth in modern systems from DDR5 to GPU memory.
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