Trammell Hudson
On The Metal
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Jess and Brian introduce Trammell Hudson, a computer innovator, as he discusses his early work on supercomputers and his passion for understanding machine functionality. Trammell also talks about his project documentation on his website, showcasing his diverse array of innovative projects.
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You can find Trammell on Twitter at https://twitter.com/qrs, his blog at https://trmm.net/, and his GitHub at https://github.com/osresearch.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
- Sandia National Labs: https://www.sandia.gov/
- Intel Paragon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Paragon
- OSF/1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSF/1
- Intel i860: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860
- Intel Pentium Pro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_Pro
- Red Storm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Storm_(computing)
- RISC architecture is going to change everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL9yCWv7NS0&feature=emb_title
- Message passing interface (MPI): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface
- System management mode (SMM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Mode
- Modchips of the State: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7H3V7tkxeA
- Modchips: https://trmm.net/modchips
- Bloomberg Supermicro story: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
- SPI flash reader: https://trmm.net/SPI_flash
- spispy flash emulator: https://github.com/osresearch/spisp https://trmm.net/Spispy
- ChromeOS firmware: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/firmware/+/e295ff701af589df9eae9f4549792700c4cbe1f3/README.md https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/custom-firmware
- Trusted Platform Module (TPM): https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/work-groups/trusted-platform-module/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module
- UEFI "Chain of Trust": https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI%20Forum%20White%20Paper%20-%20Chain%20of%20Trust%20Introduction_Final.pdf
- Evil Maid Attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_maid_attack https://trmm.net/Thunderstrike_FAQ#Does_anyone_actually_use_evil-maid_attacks.3F
- TPMGenie: https://github.com/nccgroup/TPMGenie
- Google's Titan Chip: https://2018.osfc.io/uploads/talk/paper/7/gsc_copy.pdf https://trmm.net/OSFC_2018_Security_keynote
- Open Source Firmware Conference (OSFC): https://osfc.io/
- LinuxBIOS: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4888 https://www.coreboot.org/
- LinuxBoot: https://www.linuxboot.org/
- Open Compute Project (OCP): https://www.opencompute.org/
- Bunnie's Laptop: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686
- Open Titan: https://opentitan.org/
- iCE40 FPGA: http://www.latticesemi.com/iCE40
- iCEBreaker FPGA: https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquared/icebreaker-fpga
- Project Trellis: https://github.com/SymbiFlow/prjtrellis
- nextpnr: https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr
- yosys: https://github.com/YosysHQ/yosys
- UPduino v2.0 FPGA: https://www.tindie.com/products/tinyvision_ai/upduino-v21-low-cost-fpga-board/
- ULX3S FPGA: https://www.crowdsupply.com/radiona/ulx3s
- PiDP-11: https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11
- PiDP-8: https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-8
- Trammell's PDP-11 prject: https://trmm.net/PDP-11
- Digitized Monkey Brains (PDP-11 post): https://www.nycresistor.com/2014/05/15/pdp-11/
- Model ASR33 Teletype: https://trmm.net/Model_ASR33_Teletype
- All of Trammell's Retrocomputing posts: https://trmm.net/Category:Retrocomputing
- Baud rate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baud
- Mac SE Easter Egg: https://trmm.net/Mac-SE_Easter_Egg
- Zigbee: https://trmm.net/Ikea https://zigbeealliance.org/
- Magic Lantern firmware: https://trmm.net/Magic_Lantern_firmware
- Home Assistant (Open Source): https://www.home-assistant.io/ https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant
- Node-RED: https://flows.nodered.org/
- MicroPython: https://micropython.org/ https://github.com/micropython/micropython
- Mirai Webcam Vulnerability: https://www.wired.com/2016/12/botnet-broke-internet-isnt-going-away/
- Trammell's research on Bootguard: https://trmm.net/Bootguard
- Rust on the Teensy: https://branan.github.io/teensy/
- Oreboot: https://github.com/oreboot/oreboot ht...
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