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Sep 3, 2021

Leaving Red Hat

Here we are (again). Today is my last day at Red Hat for a second time. I leave behind several amazing teams spanning the gamut from Arm Architecture to Automotive and many things in between. I know that all of you are well positioned for success and although I will…

Red Hat

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Leaving Red Hat
Leaving Red Hat
Red Hat

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Jan 18, 2021

Exchange traded cloud compute

WARNING: mentions a patent that I was recently granted At the end of 2020, I received notice that a patent application I filed almost a decade ago (back in 2011) had been issued, on “Automated cost assessment of cloud computing resources”. …

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Jan 16, 2021

Pat Gelsinger’s return to Intel…

A few days ago came the (not unexpected) news that Intel will have yet another new CEO, the third in three years, and the first in many years to come from an engineering background. …

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Sep 4, 2020

A new direction — rejoining Red Hat

Today is my last day at NUVIA. It’s been a great experience working with Gerard, Manu, John, and the whole team of Nuvians who are well on the way toward disrupting the datacenter. I am particularly grateful to Gerard for giving me the opportunity to build and lead the NUVIA…

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Published in Silicon Reimagined

·Jun 5, 2020

The Importance of Standards, on Making Arm Servers “Boring”

Author: Jon Masters, VP of Software, NUVIA Standards are a key part of our everyday lives. From waking up in the morning, until we go to bed at night, we continually benefit from the interoperability that comes from being able to take certain things for granted. We couldn’t live our…

Standardization

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The importance of standards, on making Arm servers “boring”
The importance of standards, on making Arm servers “boring”
Standardization

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Jul 3, 2019

Debugging a 32-bit Fedora Arm builder issue

Fedora supports many different architectures, among them both the 64-bit, as well as the 32-bit Arm architectures. In Fedora, we call these by the names “aarch64” and “armv7hl” respectively. …

Programming

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Programming

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Mar 1, 2019

Happy birthday, Red Hat Arm Team!

8 years ago today, we started a little project to “ultimately support RHEL on ARM”. It started out as a skunkworks effort leveraging the great work that had already been started in the Fedora community around 32-bit Arm devices. 8 years later, we have a great story in both the…

Linux

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Linux

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Nov 27, 2018

Amazon AWS Graviton Processor in newly launched Amazon AWS A1 instances

I guess I can now admit to being at re:Invent in Las Vegas, and share a little bit about what I’ve been up to over the past little while. This is the first in a mini series, so stay tuned for more… Today, Amazon announced their first Arm server offering…

Cloud Computing

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Cloud Computing

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Mar 6, 2018

Speculative data load mitigation through register tagging and data provenance

Modern microarchitectural attacks often depend upon data value speculation using values passed between contexts through general purpose registers (GPRs). A value is passed from one privilege level (e.g. userspace, EL0) into a kernel (EL1), or from one sub-context of the same privilege level (e.g. within a JIT runtime). …

Programming

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Programming

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Jan 8, 2018

On addressing #Meltdown and #Spectre in future silicon…

[ This is going to be part of a much longer blog post, with diagrams, soon, consider this a draft that might be useful but is going to be pages long later, and I am possibly going to edit as I re-read and improve the language ] Last week, the…

Programming

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Programming

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