Portrait of Shri Vishakh Devanand

I am ShriShri. I love building computer systems — from building a chip to working out the best system design for what it has to run. I love picking apart the intricacies of every decision we have made about computers over the years.

I am 21A cat holding a soda bottleaccurate self-portrait, and I think a lot about how decisions compound over the long run. You cannot meaningfully change an architecture without first looking back at the history of the choices that shaped it.

Now
  • InferenceLow-power LLM inference, at consumer-PC level.
  • Systolic arraysThey will be the moat for inference.
  • WritingA complete view of what a computer needs to work, at comparch.5iri.me.
Publications
  1. CXLMemSim: Practical Performance Simulation and Characterization of CXL 3.0 Memory Systems

    Yiwei Yang, Shri Vishakh Devanand, Brian Zhao, Yusheng Zheng, Pooneh Safayenikoo, Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Andi Quinn

    HPDC '26 · pp. 567–569

Elsewhere