Amir Michael
On The Metal
English - December 06, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 151 MBTechnology History technology hardware software on the metal Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Some of the highlights of the show include:
Silcon wafers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer_(electronics)
The "Turbo button": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button
Turbo Pascal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal
Anders Hejlsberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg
UCSB's Basic Undergraduate RISC Processor (BURP): https://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~strukov/ece152BSpring2012/Labs/Lab2.pdf
Thermal grease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_grease
"The Datacenter as Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines" https://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/pdf/10.2200/S00874ED3V01Y201809CAC046
Sun Modular Data Center, née Project Blackbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Modular_Datacenter
Google Modular Data Center: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Modular_Data_Center
SPD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_presence_detect
DRAM training: https://www.systemverilog.io/ddr4-initialization-and-calibration
Origins of 19" rack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19-inch_rack#Overview_and_history
Open Compute Project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Compute_Project
Facebook Wedge switch: https://engineering.fb.com/data-center-engineering/facebook-open-switching-system-fboss-and-wedge-in-the-open/
Backblaze drive reports: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2019/