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Category Archives: Hardware
One thing from 2014: a compiler and CPU working together
2014 was a sparse year for blogging and other projects. But at least some progress was made on my CPU project, including a major milestone: namely, running its first compiled program. Stored-program computer Firstly, the CPU is now capable of … Continue reading
Hiatus
Over a year has passed since I posted anything here. What’s been happening? I have changed job. I’m not overworked by any means, but I have found that I have less time and energy left for the frivolous, but stimulating, … Continue reading
A computing machine
As mentioned previously, I’ve been trying my hand at Verilog — a language for designing electronic circuits. This post discusses the next project I attempted: a Central Processing Unit. Magic of computation A CPU is the part of a computer … Continue reading
Learning Verilog
Over my summer break I learned Verilog. Verilog is a hardware description language: it’s a kind of programming language in which, instead of providing a sequence of instructions for updating a computer’s state, or composing an expression that evaluates a … Continue reading
Cluster size experiment
After getting the SSD for my system, I’ve been able to repartition the existing HDD into a data-only drive. I typically have a small partition for general files (basically my documents and source code), and a big one for large … Continue reading
New SSD
A couple of Fridays ago, a solid state drive — the 256GB Crucial M4 — on which I’d been keeping my eye became available again at a reasonable price, so within a few minutes I placed an order. It arrived … Continue reading
World Backup Day again!
It was World Backup Day a few days ago, and for once Slashdot managed to warn us about it ahead of time. Well done to them, and I hope it’s a policy they apply for future events. (For a moment … Continue reading
Water cooling
A mere 12 months after beginning to gripe about my machine’s loudness, I’ve done something about it. I’ve installed water cooling. And the machine actually still boots and runs. :O
Minor hardware improvements and plans
Pretty minor indeed: some obscure hardware parameters are now more impressive, but no noticeable changes to performance. Well, you can’t put a price on bragging rights…
Time for a vacuum?
A graph of CPU, Motherboard and Graphics card temperatures so far this year. Since getting this machine I’ve been collecting hardware measurements from it. I thought I should try to see if there are any trends developing.
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