Writing good, performant code depends strongly on an understanding of the underlying hardware. This is especially the case in scenarios like those involving embarrassingly parallel processing, which ...
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Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...
Three years ago, Luminal co-founder Joe Fioti was working on chip design at Intel when he came to a realization. While he was working on making the best chips he could, the more important bottleneck ...
E-commerce brands collectively spend tens of billions of dollars annually on conversion rate optimization, design teams, developers, and analytics tools, yet most still rely on manual testing cycles ...
Your browser does not support the audio element. TL;DR: Caching bit shifts looks smart but makes code up to 6× slower. Modern CPUs and compilers make direct ...
Abstract: A common approach to code optimization is to insert compiler hints in the source code using annotations. Two major challenges with using annotations effectively are their complexity and lack ...
Deep-learning throughput hinges on how effectively a compiler stack maps tensor programs to GPU execution: thread/block schedules, memory movement, and instruction selection (e.g., Tensor Core MMA ...