Photo credits

All photographs on The Safepoint are published under free licences, mostly CC0 (public domain dedication), found through Wikimedia Commons and Openverse. None was taken for this site.

SubjectUsed onPhoto, source and licence
Front of server racks at NERSC, BerkeleyHome pageDerrick Coetzee, Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0
Laptop memory modules on a light surfaceDirect buffer memorydumanag, WordPress Photo Directory via Openverse, CC0 1.0
Macro view of a circuit boardThe code cacheD Coetzee, Flickr via Openverse, CC0 1.0
Tree root in soilGC roots and memory leaksImage Catalog, Flickr via Openverse, CC0 1.0
Rear of a server rack at NERSCTaking and reading a heap dumpDerrick Coetzee, Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0
Tangled network cables in a small server roomReading thread dumpsMoses Cursor Ssebunya, WordPress Photo Directory via Openverse, CC0 1.0
CPU heatsink finsHigh CPU: find the threadPicdrome Public Domain Pictures, Flickr via Openverse, CC0 1.0
Recycling binsChoosing a garbage collectorAlabama Extension, Flickr via Openverse, CC0 1.0
Pressure gaugeTuning G1rawpixel (author not named), rawpixel via Openverse, CC0 1.0
Keys on a keyboardReading GC logsImage Catalog, Flickr via Openverse, CC0 1.0
Wooden card catalogue in a public library, Nashua, New HampshireMetaspaceMarkBuckawicki, Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0
Racks with network cabling at NERSCNative Memory TrackingD Coetzee, Flickr via Openverse, CC0 1.0
Stacked shipping containers, Port of BarcelonaThe JVM in containersrawpixel (author not named), rawpixel via Openverse, CC0 1.0
Flight data recorder on displayFlight Recorder and Mission ControlAndré Gustavo Stumpf, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Colourful sewing thread spoolsVirtual threadsrawpixel (author not named), rawpixel via Openverse, CC0 1.0
Memory module in a desktop motherboard DIMM slotThe AI memory squeezedumanag, WordPress Photo Directory via Openverse, CC0 1.0
Aerial view of a residential districtKeeping AI products affordablerawpixel (author not named), rawpixel via Openverse, CC0 1.0

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