Refining Core Development Skills
Refining Core Development Skills
Sep 11, 2025 · Fundamentals

How Kepler Boosted GPU Performance: Architecture, Specs, and Compute Power

This article examines NVIDIA's Kepler GPU architecture, highlighting its 28 nm process, increased transistor count, expanded CUDA core count, PCIe 3.0 support, enhanced memory hierarchy, new compute units, scheduling improvements like Hyper‑Q, and performance metrics of the Tesla K20X, illustrating the substantial gains over previous generations.

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How Kepler Boosted GPU Performance: Architecture, Specs, and Compute Power
Baidu Geek Talk
Baidu Geek Talk
Jun 30, 2021 · Operations

How Baidu Achieves 5‑9+ Availability: Inside Its Stability Engineering and Observability

This article dissects Baidu Search's ultra‑large micro‑service architecture, detailing the challenges of maintaining five‑nine‑plus availability, the diverse failure modes, and the step‑by‑step evolution of its observability stack—from early log‑only analysis to the kepler1.0/kepler2.0 tracing, full‑log indexing, custom span‑id generation, and compression techniques that together enable rapid root‑cause diagnosis at massive scale.

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How Baidu Achieves 5‑9+ Availability: Inside Its Stability Engineering and Observability