Publications

Publications & Articles

A collection of my written work and articles on technology, society, and civil discourse.

Featured Publications

1. Mauritius Doesn’t Need to Build Fable. It Needs an AI Pass.

   • Le Mauricien (Opinions / Forum Section)
   • September 10, 2026
   • Read Blog Post | Download Original Article (PDF)
   • Argues that small and developing countries should rent frontier AI well rather than build it: monthly AI credits for every student and teacher, sovereign open-source models for routine work, and human safeguards in law
   • Uses Singapore as the model and Anthropic’s access programs as the example of a lab doing its part

2. The Complete NCCL Reference Guide: Commands, Errors, and Troubleshooting for OCI GPU Infrastructure

   • rik-kisnah.ai (Technical Deep Dive)
   • November 15, 2025
   • NCCL commands, environment variables, error patterns, and per-shape tuning for GB200, H100/H200, A100, and MI300X
   • Well received across the industry and widely shared as a working reference by GPU infrastructure teams

3. Attention Is All You Need: An Infrastructure Engineer’s Guide

   • rik-kisnah.ai (Technical Deep Dive)
   • February 28, 2026
   • How the Transformer’s quadratic attention cost drives KV-cache sizing, memory allocation, and interconnect design
   • Well received across the industry

4. GPU Burn-In at Scale: Commands, Gates, and Troubleshooting for NVIDIA and AMD Clusters

   • rik-kisnah.ai (Technical Deep Dive)
   • September 8, 2026
   • Operator reference for burn-in testing GPU clusters: L10/L11/L12 levels, east-west and north-south network validation, the commands that find bad parts, and 2026 NVIDIA GB200/GB300 and AMD MI355X hardware

5. OCI Supercomputer Simplifies GPU Management for NVIDIA GB200 NVL72

   • Oracle video feature
   • January 2026
   • Companion to the GB200 NVL72 API engineering blog

6. Will AI Eclipse Human Roles? A Mauritius Lens on Job Shifts and Societal Waves

   • Le Mauricien (Forum Section)
   • December 4, 2025
   • Read Blog Post | Download Original Article (PDF)
   • Examines AI’s impact on employment through a Mauritius perspective
   • Explores job transformation, skills development, and opportunities in Rodrigues and emerging tech sectors

7. Zettascale Performance: OSU and NCCL Benchmarks on H100 AI Workloads

   • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Blog
   • November 5, 2025
   • Performance analysis of NVIDIA H100 GPUs at scale using OSU and NCCL benchmarks
   • Demonstrates zettascale performance capabilities for AI/ML workloads on OCI infrastructure

8. Mauritius at the Digital Crossroads: From Sugar Fields to Silicon Dreams

   • Le Mauricien (Forum Section)
   • November 5, 2025
   • Download Original Article (PDF)
   • Opinion piece on Mauritius’s AI transformation journey, economic evolution from sugar cane to technology leadership
   • Explores AI readiness, innovation ecosystems, and positioning Mauritius as Africa’s technology leader

9. NUS HPC Teams Talk - GB200 for OCI and AI Workloads Demo

   • National University of Singapore HPC Community
   • August 2025
   • View on LinkedIn
   • Download Slides (PDF)
   • Demonstrated NVIDIA GB200 GPU efficiency for AI workloads on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
   • Technical insights on HPC and AI cloud deployment strategies

10. Behind the Scenes: NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 on OCI APIs

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Blog
• August 2025
• Technical deep-dive into NVIDIA’s latest GPU architecture integration with OCI
• Focus on HPC/GPU infrastructure and performance optimization

11. HPC / GPU Plugins - Runs All OCI GPU Instances

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Product Release
• 2021
• OCI GPU Metrics Documentation
• HPC Plugin Transition Guide
• Team Update on LinkedIn
• Automated monitoring, configuration, and management of High-Performance Computing workloads on GPU-accelerated instances
• Features include RDMA configuration, GPU metrics collection, fault detection, and seamless integration with OCI’s Cluster Networking for up to 400 Gbps interconnects

12. HPC Cloud Builders - DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Presentation

• Presentation to Europe HPC Community
• September 2021
• Watch on YouTube
• Download Slides (PDF)
• Technical insights on cloud-native HPC infrastructure, DevOps practices, and scalable deployment strategies

13. Race Counts Against New Citizen When Renting House

• Straits Times Forum & Think Centre Singapore
• August 23, 2006
• Personal account of racial discrimination in Singapore’s housing market

More publications coming soon. Stay tuned.