Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️

Troublemaker | Computer Architect | @Arm Servers Architect @Google | Previously @RedHat, @Nuvia_Inc | Runner | Author | All views my own | #ArmServers

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

Who out there would find a Computer Architecture blog or podcast interesting? What if I arranged to do one in collaboration with folks like @AMD, @Arm, @intelnews, @risc_v?

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

On some level I agree. But on another I don't. Many friends have entered software engineering without formally studying it, but they're *very* smart women and men who could easily understand this, if it was ever made accessible. I intend to make it more accessible to everyone.

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

@mu_chrinovic @AriPal30 Yeah I knew 😉

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United brought back an 8pm transcon from Boston to San Francisco. If you’re willing to get to your hotel at 2am you can again have a full day on East Coast followed by full day on West Coast and redeye back 👍

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Good evening San Francisco 👍

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I guess @AlexKatouzian needs to reclaim a twitter handle 😉

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At the time we pushed for these standards as a server ecosystem there wasn’t the gravitational pull to get client to go in the right direction. I personally believe that will begin to change now with mainstream Windows on Arm across client devices

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I really think this is the coolest thing about the @nvidia RTX Spark. There’s a very good chance they have the same high quality platform that DGX demonstrated with firmware done the right (boring) way using the standards we pioneered on Arm servers

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@HomericWigger @bexcran @Sosowski I’ve said for well over a decade that it’s only a matter of time until mainstream Arm client follows the standardization path we pioneered in server. Fast forward 5 years from now, it’ll be just like the x86 PC

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

@HomericWigger @bexcran @Sosowski I’ve said for well over a decade that it’s only a matter of time until mainstream Arm client follows the standardization path we pioneered in server. Fast forward 5 years from now, it’ll be just like the x86 PC

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

@HomericWigger @bexcran @Sosowski Every Arm server does this. And go take a look at the DGX Spark for a taste of how things should be on client as well

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@Krewell @Mobile_Dom Pretty sure Jensen just said a lot of nice things about Arm on stage 😉

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Congrats to D. and the team on the Olympus announcement 👍

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

@eigenform @AvimanyuRoy3 Yes but you can see the shape of the core if you zoom out and look at the curves

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@anshelsag I carry an extra few @Arm branded lanyards with me to events, just in case someone gives me a different lanyard that needs swapping 😉

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@Arm Nicely done ✅

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

But I would argue that @Arm don’t need to stop at powering the world. Why not aim higher? 😉

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

Did I have to rewind back to the feel good intro montage from @Arm and rewatch @renehaas237 ? No, I didn’t. But man do I love my friends. Nicely done 🥰

[Jon Masters 🏴‍☠️ @jonmasters]

@VadimYuryev I will say Apple have absolutely galaxy class architects and designers. They think about all of these details that the merely average architect would never contemplate. There is a reason that Apple Silicon looks like magic

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@VadimYuryev Requires a substantial set of changes to an OS if you want to support Shared Virtual Addressing seamlessly. I think Windows has some support for this, but almost certainly not out of the box and they probably want to support everything. SVA is very hard to do in a bug free way

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@billhueyNBA @ChShersh Moment of weakness 😂