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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Explore machine learning concepts related to memory. Clear explanations and practical insights.
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High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
3D-stacked DRAM architecture providing massive bandwidth for GPUs and AI accelerators
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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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Linux Memory Management: Virtual Memory, Paging, and Beyond
Explore Linux memory management through interactive visualizations. Understand virtual memory, page tables, TLB, swapping, and memory allocation.
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Virtual Memory & TLB: Complete Guide to Address Translation
Comprehensive guide to virtual memory and TLB with interactive visualizations. Explore page tables, address translation, TLB mechanics, page faults, and performance optimization.
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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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Context Windows: The Memory Limits of LLMs
Interactive visualization of context window mechanisms in LLMs - sliding windows, expanding contexts, and attention patterns that define what models can "remember".
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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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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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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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Transparent Huge Pages (THP): Reducing TLB Pressure
Deep dive into Transparent Huge Pages (THP), a Linux kernel feature that automatically promotes 4KB pages to 2MB huge pages. Learn how THP reduces TLB misses, page table overhead, and improves performance—plus the hidden costs of memory bloat and latency spikes.
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SoA vs AoS: Data Layout Optimization
Master Structure of Arrays (SoA) vs Array of Structures (AoS) data layouts for optimal cache efficiency, SIMD vectorization, and GPU memory coalescing with interactive visualizations.
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