About the lab

Technicomp Labs is the independent workshop of Paul D. Martin, Ph.D., a place to build software, measure systems, and keep old hardware running.

Projects. The lab’s main project is Technicomp Benchtop Linux, the operating system for the technical workbench. Other work is released openly where licensing allows, including the LLM Performance Engineering Notebook, an open lab notebook on the inference speed limits of large Mixture-of-Experts models.

The blog. Technical posts on whatever is on the bench: operating systems and Linux internals, performance and benchmarking, applied machine learning, security, hardware and firmware, repair and restoration, and the tools and methods behind all of it. Posts lean on measurements from the lab where measurements apply, and they keep the dead ends in; the approaches that didn’t work are often as useful as the ones that did.

The collection. A working collection of vintage computers and game consoles, repaired and kept running rather than shelved. The restoration work feeds its own posts.

Everything here is personal, independent work, separate from Dr. Martin’s professional research and expert witness practice.