Chinese Using "AI" To Performance-Tune Kernel - With Significant Results

Dec 18, 2023 0 Replies

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Kernel tuning is so challenging that there is an attempt to leverage AI to handle it instead of human developers. Chinese IT company ByteDance recently presented the results of its tests with Linux kernel autotuning, an AI-based solution that could liberate human engineers and make better tuning decisions by analyzing historical data – a task humans often find challenging.



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"Liberate" - so you will have more time to spend at the unemployment office ........ just sayin' ...



Alas it is true ... "AI" can track a lot more points and conditions over time and be trained to tweak the fiddly kernal settings to optimize - likely faster and better than humans.



For MOST operations, that degree of fine-tuning is unnecessary. However for BIG biz, some scientific apps and giant cluster/distributed setups - yea, microseconds DO add up.


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