Preface: Does Big Data use the TLB in the Linux kernel? Yes, big data applications in Linux utilize the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) as a crucial component of memory management. The TLB speeds up address translation by caching recently used virtual-to-physical address mappings. Applications like databases, which often handle large datasets and have specific memory…

Preface: AI and machine learning workloads rely on optimized object storage to handle the massive, unstructured datasets needed for training and operation. NVIDIA AIStore (AIS) aims to overcome the limitations of traditional filesystems in handling large AI datasets by providing a distributed storage system that can handle the demands of modern AI models. Background: An…

Preface: What Does “Linear” Mean in Machine Learning? In the context of machine learning and neural networks: A linear function is one where the relationship between inputs and outputs can be represented as a straight line (in 2D), or more generally, a hyperplane in higher dimensions. Background: NVIDIA Megatron-LM is an open-source framework designed for…