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Brendan Gregg

What Brendan Gregg thinks about semiconductors

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Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.

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2 dated positions, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Brendan Gregg has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingCustomers who give hardware vendors firm, tough feedback accomplish more with them

    Their wordsIf you are in regular meetings with a hardware vendor as a customer (or potential customer) you can accomplish a lot by providing firm and tough feedback, particularly with Intel today.

    ↗Intel is listening, don't waste your shotbrendangregg.com 1st of 2 in this piece

  2. 7 months earlier

  3. Our readingNVIDIA's Nsight Graphics GPU flame graphs are shallow and cumbersome to use compared to full-stack profiling tools

    Their wordsThey do have flame graphs in Nsight Graphics for GPU workloads, although their flame graphs are currently shallow as it is GPU code only, and onerous to use as I believe it requires an interposer; on the plus side they have click-to-source.

    ↗Doom GPU Flame Graphsbrendangregg.com 2nd of 2 in this piece