Tag: optimization

  • Hacker News: LLVM-Powered Devirtualization

    Source URL: https://blog.thalium.re/posts/llvm-powered-devirtualization/ Source: Hacker News Title: LLVM-Powered Devirtualization Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text elaborates on the techniques and methodologies for deobfuscating virtualized binaries, primarily utilizing dynamic taint analysis and LLVM optimization strategies. This study showcases new approaches to reverse engineering obfuscated binaries, which is critical in the context…

  • The Register: China’s tech giants deliver chips for Ethernet variant tuned to HPC and AI workloads

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/26/global_scheduling_ethernet_china_uec/ Source: The Register Title: China’s tech giants deliver chips for Ethernet variant tuned to HPC and AI workloads Feedly Summary: ‘Global Scheduling Ethernet’ looks a lot like tech the Ultra Ethernet Consortium is also working on Chinese tech giants last week announced the debut of chips to power a technology called “Global…

  • Hacker News: Transactional Object Storage?

    Source URL: https://blog.mbrt.dev/posts/transactional-object-storage/ Source: Hacker News Title: Transactional Object Storage? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text explores the challenges and solutions in developing a portable and cost-effective database solution using object storage services like AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage. By reinventing aspects of traditional databases, the author outlines a…

  • AWS News Blog: AWS Weekly Roundup: 197 new launches, AI training partnership with Anthropic, and join AWS re:Invent virtually (Nov 25, 2024)

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-197-new-launches-ai-training-partnership-with-anthropic-and-join-aws-reinvent-virtually-nov-25-2024/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: AWS Weekly Roundup: 197 new launches, AI training partnership with Anthropic, and join AWS re:Invent virtually (Nov 25, 2024) Feedly Summary: Last week, I saw an astonishing 197 new service launches from AWS. This means we are getting closer to AWS re:Invent 2024! Our News Blog team…

  • Hacker News: Understanding SIMD: Infinite Complexity of Trivial Problems

    Source URL: https://www.modular.com/blog/understanding-simd-infinite-complexity-of-trivial-problems Source: Hacker News Title: Understanding SIMD: Infinite Complexity of Trivial Problems Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses advancements and challenges surrounding SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) operations, particularly in the context of high-performance computing for AI applications. The focus is on how to effectively leverage modern…

  • Hacker News: Computing with Time: Microarchitectural Weird Machines

    Source URL: https://cacm.acm.org/research-highlights/computing-with-time-microarchitectural-weird-machines/ Source: Hacker News Title: Computing with Time: Microarchitectural Weird Machines Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the development and implications of microarchitectural weird machines (µWMs), which exploit CPU microarchitectural features to create powerful obfuscation techniques for malware. This research provides insights into how these µWMs can…

  • Hacker News: WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill

    Source URL: https://www.recall.ai/post/how-websockets-cost-us-1m-on-our-aws-bill? Source: Hacker News Title: WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the optimization of inter-process communication (IPC) for video processing on AWS, revealing unexpected CPU usage patterns linked to WebSocket implementation, and the shift to shared memory transport to…

  • Hacker News: Full LLM training and evaluation toolkit

    Source URL: https://github.com/huggingface/smollm Source: Hacker News Title: Full LLM training and evaluation toolkit Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text introduces SmolLM2, a family of compact language models with varying parameters designed for lightweight, on-device applications, and details on how they can be utilized in different scenarios. Such advancements in AI…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quantization matters

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/23/quantization-matters/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quantization matters Feedly Summary: Quantization matters What impact does quantization have on the performance of an LLM? been wondering about this for quite a while, now here are numbers from Paul Gauthier. He ran differently quantized versions of Qwen 2.5 32B Instruct through his Aider code editing…

  • Newsroom \ Anthropic: Powering the next generation of AI development with AWS

    Source URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-amazon-trainium Source: Newsroom \ Anthropic Title: Powering the next generation of AI development with AWS Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text discusses an expanded collaboration between Anthropic and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop advanced AI systems. The partnership is marked by a significant financial investment aimed at enhancing…