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ScreamingPigeon
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My experience working on CBP-NG
If you want to get into the meat and gravy of this project, find my paper, code and video slides here under “ RABT - Run-Ahead Block TAGE. Prakhar Gupta, Yuwei Sun, Rishav Sen, Reet Sinha, Swetha Karthikeyan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) ”. (For the most up to date (and bug-free) code, check out my repo ) My presentation at the CBP-NG workshop at ISCA 2026 at Raleigh, NC…
Game Development and the Collapse of Civilization
Today, I watched this great talk from DevGamm Moscow in 2019. Feels extremely relevant to the current theme of AI. Thank you Jonathan Blow! If you liked the historical discussion in the talk, do consider checking out “ Why the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future ” - Ian Morris (I haven’t read it myself but it came up in a related…
WRAITH: NOT taping out a brick
WRAITH dieshot "ABSOLUTE CINEMA!" ;) Okay, so I was supposed to write this post back in December, when I finished tapeout and the shuttle had been sent to TSMC. I got busy with other stuff (read lazy) and deferred it to now - when I am on summer break. Before I get started, huge thanks to my teammates Ingi , Pradyun , and Sam without whom this project would not have been possible. Tags: projects…
Dams, Capacitors, and Datacenters
I have been reading Marc Reisner’s Cadillac Desert of late. It is a great book that gets into the history of irrigation and water reclamation projects in the American west. I will reference some of the things discussed in that book here, so if you don’t want spoilers, go give it a read first. It’s full of history and economics and politics. The Colorado river is basically just a…
Skyline Panel
The SKYLINE workshop at ISCA 2026 assembled a panel of researchers - Amir from Google DeepMind, Joseph Torellas from UIUC, Jovan Stojkovic from UT Austin and Meta, Chaojie Zhang from Microsoft Azure Research, and Benjamin C. Lee from UPenn and Google to chat about the evolving landscape of cloud-native architectures, agentic AI, and the fundamental redesign of systems from the ground up. Here is…
Characterization of Cache Aware Scheduling on Linux
This past semester, I took a class on parallel computer architecture, with a focus on shared memory multiprocessor systems. For the final project, my group (huge thanks to Ingi and Pradyun for carrying) and I worked on doing a characterization of Cache-Aware Scheduling on Linux. This is the final paper we produced for the class. I converted the .tex file to a hugo compatible markdown using pandoc…
Pictures from Spring Break 2026
Hello! I return to the blog about 2 weeks later than I should be. I will be serving my (nonexistent???) readers with some more low-vocabulary slop. As an attempt to half-ass my new year resolution of writing a blog post every month - I will be uploading pictures from my trip to New England and NYC with some blurbs. Why? Because it is easier than writing something interesting. Boston Tags: blog…
Books I read in 2025
One of my resolutions for this year is to write more. So far, I have done a shitty job holding myself up to that. I have been having a hard time coming up with something to write about. Naturally, commenting on writing is much easier than writing something original. So here are my thoughts on some of the books I read in 2025. February Elder Race Adrian Tchaikovsky This was the first book…
Flush Reload
Intro Last November, I got the chance to meet Daniel Genkin - at the Midwest Security Workshop . He is one of the authors/discoveres of SPECTRE and MELTDOWN , some of the most critical vulnerabilities discovered in the last decade. These were also unpatchable due to them being hardware vulnerabilities. Bumping into Daniel was a happy coincidence for me. I was aware that MSW had a section on HW…
Developing an Out-Of-Order RISC-V CPU: part one
This post is about 5 months late. I created the markdown file on 12/23/2025 but never got around to writing anything to it. Now, I have some time on my hands (and I feel bad about not writing as often as I had planned to) - so I figured I will give this a shot again. Last fall, I took ECE 411 the infamous computer-architecture class at my university. This was a class I was really looking forward…
Supermicrosummit24
Super Micro Open Stroage Summit 2024 https://www.thecube.net/events/supermicro/open-storage-summit-2024 I attended the last 2 events at this stummit. Here are my thoughts and notes: The New High Performance Computing: Optimized Storage from HPC to AI Speakers: Randy Kreiser Supermicro CJ Newburn NVIDIA Balaji Venkateshwaran DDN Bill Panos Solidigm CJ- The moderator looks like he is being held at…
Making a POSIX (-ish?) Linux Kernel
Interactive Demo here Features include Concurrency through RoundRobin Scheduler Interrupt Support, Keyboard IO, RTC Custom read-only filesystem with POXIS(-ish?) syscalls x86_32 Paging exec() and exit() functionality for certain programs For academic integrity reasons, I cannot share the source code This project also has mouse support, soundblasters, and real-time UART pvp TicTacToe implemented…