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Henry Zhu

maknee.github.io

Personal website for some random tidbits I work on

Performance / optimizationStorage / filesystemsAI / ML

Posts
41 from 17 Aug 2018 to 9 Feb 2026
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monthly (7 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 5

  1. An Intro to DeepSeek's Distributed File System
  2. News
  3. NVIDIA TileIR Internals: from CuTile to MLIR/LLVM to SASS
  4. 2026 | Henry Zhu
  5. Performance Hints

2025 10

  1. Maybe consider putting "cutlass" in your CUDA/Triton kernels
  2. 2025 | Henry Zhu
  3. Network Storage and Scaling Characteristics of a Distributed Filesystem
  4. Network and Storage Benchmarks for LLM Training on the Cloud
  5. AI 2027
  6. Always Measure One Level Deeper
  7. Paul Graham - Why Nerds Are Unpopular
  8. A Reality Check on DeepSeek's Distributed File System Benchmarks
  9. Paul Graham - What to Do
  10. League of Legends data scraping the hard and tedious way for fun

2024 10

  1. Uniqueness
  2. 2024 | Henry Zhu
  3. Paul Graham - When To Do What You Love
  4. Review - Managing Memory Tiers with CXL in Virtualized Environments
  5. Paul Graham - The Right Kind of Stubborn
  6. Working on hard problems
  7. Review - NewsQs | Multi-Source Question Generation for the Inquiring Mind
  8. Review - RAID | Benchmark for machine-generated text review
  9. You and your research
  10. First Complaint

2022 2

  1. Raysterizer
  2. 2022 | Henry Zhu

2021 3

  1. Machine Learning with League of Legends - Minimap Detection (Part 2)
  2. 2021 | Henry Zhu
  3. Machine Learning with League of Legends - Minimap Detection (Part 1)

2020 2

  1. Machine Learning with League of Legends - Introduction
  2. 2020 | Henry Zhu

2019 3

  1. Running opengl under WSL
  2. 2019 | Henry Zhu
  3. Practical Reverse Engineering Sample D

2018 6

  1. DXR-RTX Path Tracer Project HLSL Shader Code
  2. 2018 | Henry Zhu
  3. DXR-RTX Path Tracer Project Host Code
  4. DXR-RTX Path Tracer Project Introduction
  5. DXR-RTX Path Tracer Project User Guide
  6. Object Oriented C Library - Introduction