ScreamingPigeon

Dams, Capacitors, and Datacenters

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:35:33 -0500

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 trickle into the gulf of California now.

Tags: blog random

Word Count: 542

Reading Time: 3 minutes

Skyline Panel

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:10:18 -0500

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 my transcript from the talk. Amir: Self refinement is something we really need to talk about.

Tags: blog conference ai

Word Count: 1400

Reading Time: 7 minutes

Characterization of Cache Aware Scheduling on Linux

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:17:29 -0500

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, followed by some tweaking to get images to render.

Tags: projects operating-systems linux

Word Count: 6533

Reading Time: 31 minutes

Pictures from Spring Break 2026

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:19:13 -0500

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 This is by the state street stop on the red line - pretty much the heart of downtown Boston.

Tags: blog travel photography

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Books I read in 2025

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:38:04 -0500

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 (novella?

Tags: blog books

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Reading Time: 10 minutes

Flush Reload

Tue, 06 May 2025 15:09:05 -0500

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 Security (which is why I went in the first place) - but I never knew that such an epic security researcher was going to be there.

Tags: blog computer-architecture security

Word Count: 2055

Reading Time: 10 minutes

Developing an Out-Of-Order RISC-V CPU: part one

Sat, 03 May 2025 17:44:00 -0600

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 to.

Tags: projects computer-architecture

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Reading Time: 15 minutes

Supermicrosummit24

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 11:55:40 -0500

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 gunpoint. Rate at which usage models are changing need for new infrastructure new models characterized by large scale and making memory accesses of fine granularity

Tags: blog conference

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Making a POSIX (-ish?) Linux Kernel

Thu, 09 May 2024 03:39:15 +0530

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 for extra credit. Not available in the online demo. This placed 3rd in the Design competition in SP24

Tags: projects operating-systems

Word Count: 70

Reading Time: 1 minutes