🏳️‍⚧️ System Hacker.

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Joined July 2012
world first agentic riscv system for both local llm agent and memory expansion to GB300!
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A fun realization I had recently: with Blackwell (B200 and B300), we are basically back to solving classic NUMA problems inside a single GPU package. To software, a B200 looks like one big unified GPU. But physically it is two silicon dies connected by NV-HBI. And while that cross-die link is fast, local HBM is still noticeably closer. If you ignore this, memory-heavy workloads like MoE layers spend half their time pulling weights across the link, which burns latency and power for no good reason. Pay attention to MegaMoE in DeepGEMM. In fact, CUDA doesn’t have an API to tell you which SM sits on which die, so just measure it directly with a few lines of pointer chasing. 1. Slice the weights in half onto physical memory for each die, and run a persistent scheduler where SMs pull from their local die first. 2. Only steal work across dies if there are at least two full waves of tasks left. Why? Otherwise, paying the transit latency for small leftovers just isn't worth it. Then, 4D TMA descriptor can do coordinate routing so the inner loop stays completely clean. The payoff is ~100 W of package power saved and 5-10% higher sustained clocks. (Which can be hundreds of thousands of $$ saved in real deployment).
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BOSS直聘刚发了个 Nanbeige4.3-33B 说实话我在HuggingFace上刚刷到的时候还以为是个欧洲模型, 硬是没读出来 Nanbeige 是啥, 搜了下发现其实是 BOSS 直聘的大语言模型实验室, 叫南北阁. 这次发布的 33B Dense 版本特别优化了模型的Agent能力, 我给大家做了个对比chart, 哪个面积大哪个就更强, 从Agent分数上来看, 甚至比Qwen3.8-27B 还要高. 当然其它的诸如写代码能力就差一些了. 它们之前8月份也发过 Nanbeige4.2, 是完全的自研架构 Looped Transformer, 而这次则用了非常保守的标准 llama 架构, 就是全注意力+GQA. 这也意味着, 这个模型推理起来还是很吃内存的. 以及只能用外置MTP加速了. 另外长上下文方案可能也比较糙, 模型上来就支持512K上下文, 但是没有配置动态 YaRN 或复杂的 RoPE 压缩算法. 就是直接把旋转位置编码的基数(rope_theta)调到了1.2亿来支持. 当然这么搞也是有好处的, 首先就是架构很简单, 几乎所有推理引擎都能跑, 其次官方的定位是教师模型, 所以估计后续会发布一些小的蒸馏模型供实际使用. (目前还没发). 等它们发布了我有空给大家来个10B以下小模型横评. #Nanbeige #boss直聘
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These frontier lab custom chips are also unusable without the internal RLed models that write all the ISA kernels. If they ever sold the chips externally, they would need to also sell API access to a special model that can program it.
Frontier labs making custom chips is not really as hard / as impressive as you might think. 1. They are primarily targeting inference not training. inference is easier 2. They are targeting transformers only. Think large MXU matmul units 3. They are writing all kernels in close to ISA with coding agents RLed for their ISA. 4. They aren’t making high level compilers for codegen A frontier lab vending a true generic chip like a Nvidia GPU or Google TPU is MUCH harder than spinning up an in house inference program. Still I think you will see many more inference chip companies as the cost of the software is just the cost of tokens.
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vickieGPT retweeted
Holy smoke NVIDIA has officially lowered the HBM4 pin speed. 11.7-> 9.3Gbps
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big plus for nvme vender
Day 16/ You can now cache for 12h in the API and for logged in users across Codex & Work we keep cache forever and you don’t have any penalty for coming back to an old conversation or resuming after a few hours and are now guaranteed to hit the cache.
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Heard from a neolab friend: “Even if we fail to train the best model, we locked in GPU capacity early. H100/B200/B300 rental prices have since gone up 2–3x. We can just resell the compute and print money.” OK, so that’s the business model.
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We’re going to see a bunch of neolab to neocloud pivots next year
Heard from a neolab friend: “Even if we fail to train the best model, we locked in GPU capacity early. H100/B200/B300 rental prices have since gone up 2–3x. We can just resell the compute and print money.” OK, so that’s the business model.
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陈海波的Meld,论创新不如我的GPUOS,论性能提升,选的都是对他们极其友好的workloads,可是production真的都是这么imbalance的吗?
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结果一看,和copier的垃圾实验设备出自一个一作。
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我也觉得vla和wam后边一定会被llm所取代,通用的llm做agentic humanoid是未来趋势
Replying to @c1ndl8st
所有的 wam vla 没有未来了,我已经想通了。短期内水 paper 有意义,长期来看不如怎么想让大模型高速推理。 videogen 反而是不可替代的,图形学搞了这么多年用各种规则 code as policy 地 render 世界 到头来还不如 data-drive。 vae 不是好的世界动力学编码器 却是好的 render 效果编码器。 (3/3)
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陈海波SOSP上发的所有CXL相关的paper都不是真机多host,which is garbage.要就得买我的multi host的机器。
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非常值得关注的 FPGA CPU 博客 fpga.org/ 之前长期沉寂的 FPGA CPU News 也可一并关注 作者 Jan Gray 于 2003 年离开微软后致力于硬件架构、FPGA 和 RISC-V 开放指令集架构的研究,并创立了 Gray Research LLC github.com/grayresearch Gray Research LLC is a Silver Founding Member of the RISC-V Foundation. 此前他在微软工作期间曾是 .NET CLR 性能团队的核心成员,并在 2003 年 6 月发表了广为人知的经典技术长文《Writing Faster Managed Code: Know What Things Cost》 learn.microsoft.com/en-us/pr…
FPGA CPU News fpgacpu.org/index.html This website hasn’t been updated for a long time, but the content that remains still holds some reference value. Processor and Integrated System Design in FPGAs fpgacpu.org/papers/xsoc-slid… Designing a Simple FPGA - Optimized RISC CPU and System on a Chip fpgacpu.org/papers/soc-gr004… Building a RISC CPU and System on a Chip in an FPGA fpgacpu.org/papers/xsoc-seri… I also resonate with the author’s design philosophy. for FPGA CPU cores, simple is beautiful. In my experience, simpler is smaller smaller is cheaper smaller is faster smaller is more power frugal simpler is easier to test
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