[Links of the Day] 11/07/2017 : Chip Hall of Fame, AMD Software optimization guide, Pocket negotiator

• Pocket Negotiator : this is a really cool negotiation software helping people in the actual negotiation process or prepare for a negotiation. 
• Software Optimization Guide for AMD Family 17h Processors : AMD optimisation guideline for its latest processors family. 
• Chip Hall of Fame : The stories of the greatest and most influential microchips in history—and the people who built them

[Links of the day] 01/06/2016 : Megaprocessor, ARM A73 Artemis and AsAP project

• Megaprocessor : Somebody decided to build a processor using actual individual transistor component. This impressive both in scale and dedication. [videos ]
• Artemis : The ARM Cortex A73 has been released. It is the 64-bit successor to the Cortex A17 . Yes,this is confusing, the naming and release cycle doesn't really indicate the actual generation / functionality. It is clearly aimed at the smartphone market with its little/big core architecture and is a marvelous piece of tech. 
• AsAP : Asynchronous Array of Simple Processors , remind me of the connection machine architecture. Except that it use a single-chip processing system comprised of a large number of fine-grain asynchronously-operating programmable processors connected by a reconfigurable network.

Links of the day 15/01/2016 : Berkeley BOOM processor, Approximate computing and natural language parser

• Mycroft Adapt : intent definition and determination framework which basically enables you to parse natural language text into a structured intent that can then be invoked programatically.
• BOOM : Berkeley Out-of-Order RISC-V Processor, nice effort to explore the OoO space with actual hardware rather than simulation. It demonstrate that we might start to see interesting thing in the cpu space as the development cost drops while the iteration speed increase [tech report][slides][video]
• Approximate computing : When you are willing to trade off computing quality for the effort expended you might want to look at this Survey Of Techniques for Approximate Computing to find the best trade-off.

Links of the day 30/12/2015: #destiny development process, vision of processor & memory systems and fault tree analysis

• Vision of processor and memory systems : Excellent presentation by J. Thomas Pawlowski, Chief Technologist, Fellow at Mircon. It provides you with a very good overview of the memory landscape technology, trends and challenge. Pay special attention to the the power wall. Moreover, the automata processor product seems interesting as micron tries to move up the value chain with a different approach to the auxiliary processing unit => memory centric. While they have a vested interest in this approach, it seems opposite to the overall fabric trend (omnipath etc..). However, t might turn out complementary on the long term.
• Lessons from the Core Engine Architecture of Destiny : cover the six-year development arc of the Destiny engine, from inception to ship. Some valuable lesson and a very deep and thoughtful and honest introspection of the process.
• Fault Tree Analysis : very long but extremely complete overview on how Nasa use fault tree analysis to:
• resolve the causes of system failure
• quantify system failure probability
• evaluate potential upgrades to a system
• optimize resources in assuring system safety
• resolve causes of an incident
• model system failures in risk assessments

Links of the day 16/11/2015: Named Data networking, VM scheduler, Asymmetric multi-core processors.

• Named Data : an effort to transform networking the same way object storage transformed well storage. By naming the data content for efficient transport rather than solely focusing on the point to point aspect. Really cool concept.
• BtrPlace : Virtual machine scheduler system. While really nice it suffer from a lack of integration with existing system. However from looking at the code it would be rather simple to integrate with Openstack or other cloud / virtualization system.
• Survey on Asymmetric Multicore Processors : extensive review of the literature out there on heterogeneous processors systems. 

Links of the day 06 - 05 - 2015

Today's links 06/05/2015: Hyperloglog sandwich, Pony stuff, Durable MQ performance, Intel E7

• HyperLogSandwich : A probabilistic data structure for frequency/k-occurrence cardinality estimation of multisets.
• Pony : object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language.
• Evaluating persistent, replicated message queues: Nice bench marking of various popular message queue performance.
• Intel Core E7 : “Haswell-EX” Xeon E7 v3 processors for big iron with big memory :)

Links of the day 4 - 12 - 2014

Links of the day 4/12/2014: #devops tools, Distributed systems and Micron Automata processors

• Serverspec : framework using RSpec tests to validate server configuration
• Diamond : python daemon that collects system metrics and publishes them to Graphite (and others).
• Automata : Micron processor is designed to have complex, unstructured data written to it and to perform graph processing on that data, and provide analytic results back to the user or to the host system.
• Distributed systems for fun and profit : distributed programming and systems concepts you'll need to understand commercial systems in the data center.