GPU Memory Hierarchy & Optimization
Master GPU memory hierarchy from registers to global memory, understand coalescing patterns, bank conflicts, and optimization strategies for maximum performance
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Explore machine learning concepts related to performance. Clear explanations and practical insights.
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Mount Options: Fine-Tuning Filesystem Behavior and Performance
Master filesystem mount options to control performance, security, and behavior. Explore common options, performance implications, and security hardening through interactive visualizations.
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CPU Pipeline Architecture
Comprehensive exploration of CPU pipeline stages, hazards, superscalar, and out-of-order execution
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Python Optimization Techniques
Performance optimization strategies and CPython optimizations
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Filesystem Compression: Transparent Space Savings and Performance Trade-offs
Master transparent filesystem compression with algorithms, compression ratios, and performance implications. Explore compression mechanisms through interactive visualizations.
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Green Threads vs OS Threads: Understanding Concurrency Models
Deep dive into the differences between green threads (user-space threads) and OS threads (kernel threads), with interactive visualizations showing scheduling, context switching, and performance implications.
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XFS: High-Performance Filesystem
Explore XFS - the high-performance 64-bit journaling filesystem optimized for large files and parallel I/O. Learn why it excels at handling massive data workloads.
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Flynn's Classification: Taxonomy of Computer Architectures
Explore Flynn's Classification of computer architectures through interactive visualizations of SISD, SIMD, MISD, and MIMD systems.
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Hash Tables: Fast Lookups with Collision Resolution
Master hash tables through interactive visualizations of hash functions, collision resolution strategies, load factors, and performance characteristics.
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CPU Pipelines & Branch Prediction: Modern Processor Architecture
Explore CPU pipeline stages, instruction-level parallelism, pipeline hazards, and branch prediction through interactive visualizations.
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Hazard Detection: Pipeline Dependencies and Solutions
Master pipeline hazards through interactive visualizations of data dependencies, control hazards, structural conflicts, and advanced detection mechanisms.
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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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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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Understanding NVIDIA Persistence Daemon
Eliminating GPU initialization latency through nvidia-persistenced - a userspace daemon that maintains GPU driver state for optimal startup performance.
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CPU Performance & Optimization
Understanding CPU cycles, memory hierarchy, cache optimization, and performance analysis techniques
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