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Frank Denneman
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Frank Denneman's personal blog at frankdenneman.nl covers systems and ai. Since 2010, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Sizing VMs and NUMA nodes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Frank Denneman's posts on NUMA architecture, memory and sizing VMs for VMware ESX. The comments mostly point to his NUMA Deep Dive series as reference material for these topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Distinguished Engineer for AI at VMware Cloud Foundation. Writing about AI infrastructure, GPU platform design, and NUMA-aware architecture.
Most-linked posts?
- Sizing VMs and NUMA nodes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-03
What Hacker News says?
When I was working on Return to Dark Castle about 10 years ago, I did some tests with fast-ish Macs from that time. We were drawing the game in 16 bit color in RAM as layers of 32x32 pixel tiles and then uploading the resulting PixMap to the GPU as a texture (long story, that was due to starting work on the game in the 90s before OS X even came out). That ran several hundred fps even then. I did some other tests set…
Comment linking /2015/02/19/memory-deep-dive-memory-subsystem-bandwidth/
on “Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code”Submitted NUMA Deep Dive Part 1: From UMA to NUMA as a story · 100 points
HN discussionUpdated the series with ESX NUMA constructs: http://frankdenneman.nl/2016/08/22/numa-deep-dive-part-5-esx...
Comment linking /2016/08/22/numa-deep-dive-part-5-esxi-vmkernel-numa-constructs/
on “NUMA Deep Dive Part 1: From UMA to NUMA”Submitted Memory Deep Dive – Optimizing for Performance as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSome bits buried in here: http://frankdenneman.nl/2010/02/sizing-vms-and-numa-nodes/
Comment linking /2010/02/sizing-vms-and-numa-nodes/
on “Disaster: MySQL 5.5 Flushing”Submitted VMware Cloud on AWS – A Closer Look as a story · 12 points
HN discussionHe's referring to Rank Interleaving, and he's correct: https://frankdenneman.nl/2015/02/20/memory-deep-dive/#:~:tex... . You've put off the vibe of someone that assumes they're correct without double checking themselves ;)
Comment linking /2015/02/20/memory-deep-dive/
on “Everything I've learned building the fastest Arm desktop”Submitted Sizing VMs and NUMA nodes as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted above as it seems not everyone noticed that part 2 already is available well. Also note that part 3 is available as well [0] [0] http://frankdenneman.nl/2016/07/11/numa-deep-dive-part-3-cac...
Comment linking /2016/07/11/numa-deep-dive-part-3-cache-coherency/
on “NUMA Deep Dive Part 2: System Architecture”Submitted Sub-NUMA Clustering as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: VGPU Silo Capacity Calculator (identify siloed capacity in mixed mode) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted NUMA Deep Dive Part 3: Cache Coherency (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scheduling VSphere Pods as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted VMware Cloud on AWS Technical Overview as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted VMware Cloud on AWS – Predictable Capacity Provisioning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted NUMA Deep Dive Part 2: System Architecture as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Initial Placement of a native container in vSphere as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted VMware Cloud on AWS – Elastic DRS Preview as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted No Wall Space? Try the Whiteboard Desk as a story · 1 points
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