Michal Pitr
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Michal Pitr
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I build code from scratch and write engineering blogs | k8s @ Google | University of Edinburgh

https://open.substack.com/pub/michalpitr
PMPP is a nicely structured introduction to general purpose GPU programming.

GPUs are fundamentally different from CPUs. This impacts the type of workloads that benefit from them.

If you do pick this up, I recommend working through at least some of the exercises.
May 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Matrix-matrix multiplication is a fundamental building block of many scientific and ML applications. What does it take to write efficient one?
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May 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Oh wow, got a first pledged subscription to my substack From Scratch.

Not planning to enable payments anytime soon, but it's great to see that folks enjoy my pragmatic engineering deep dives.

#substack #softwareengineering #programming
December 14, 2024 at 1:37 PM
My recent article on creating a container from scratch in a linux terminal popped off and doubled my subscriber count!
December 9, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Today GKE team celebrated the launch of 65k node clusters!

My favorite bit is that the team had to replace etcd with spanner to overcome scaling issues. ⚡

Curious to see these massive TPU/GPU training clusters in action!
November 26, 2024 at 8:53 PM