Java on a 1000 Cores - Tales of Hardware / Software CoDesign

Why HN readers recommended it

HN treats Cliff Click's talks as an excellent source on JVMs, garbage collection and hardware-assisted Java.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Google TechTalks

Topic

jvm and hardware codesign

Format

talk

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

9

Recommendation years in dataset

2009–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Here's an excellent google tech talk by Cliff Click of Azul talking about their hardware. Among the firehose of information in that talk, he mentions that the hardware guys wanted to add directly execute JVM bytecode. He told them not to bother since he could …

• Probably this one: [LINK] Anything from Cliff Click is quite good. This guy has a very deep understanding of compilers, virtual-machines, CPUs, and their interactions. A JVM does that? [LINK] Java on a 1000 Cores [VIDEO]

• There are some interesting challenging when scaling this large with any system. Peter referenced some of Azul System's stuff and their custom GC. Cliff Click from Azul has done some great Google Tech Talks about JVM development and scaling JVM's out to really big systems.[1][2] …