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Looking for interesting performance engineering examples for class

I'm teaching a performance engineering class at UC Davis (EEC 289Q) that's based on the amazing 6.172 performance engineering class from MIT. While many instructors have taught this class, Charles Leiserson has been the principal instructor for many years, and it's been a pleasure working with him and his colleagues in bringing it to UC Davis.Much of the class has been a little more abstract,...

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Re:Efficient Parallel Scan Algorithms for GPUs (2008) [pdf] on Sunday January 01, 2017 @10:45PM (#13298902)
I recommend the Merrill/Garland NVIDIA technical report from March 2016, "Single-pass Parallel Prefix Scan with Decoupled Look-back", as the current state of the art for scan on GPUs.

https://research.nvidia.com/publication/single-pass-parallel...

Ask HN: email client functionality: how to keep track of follow-up emails?

Greetings, I would like the following functionality for my email client, and welcome ideas and suggestions!I send a lot of email that I hope will be answered. Occasionally I don’t get an answer, and I’d like to follow up if that’s the case. What I could do is keep track of every email that I send as a todo item, and then check off that todo item when I get a reply. But the common case is that I...

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