Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by Graviton5 processors, offering up to 25% higher performance per vCPU than previous-generation C8g instan…
AI clusters often underperform despite powerful GPUs because the GPUs are idle due to bottlenecks in data loading, CPU preprocessing, network communication, or storage contention. A developer explains…
A developer with years of experience in AI and machine learning systems argues that infrastructure—GPU clusters, high-speed storage, memory, networking, and specialized servers—is the hidden backbone …
Amazon's Prime Day deal offers the Samsung 990 Pro 2TB SSD at $369.99, a 42% discount from its regular price. The NVMe drive delivers sequential read speeds up to 7,450 MB/s and write speeds up to 6,9…
An AI agent tasked with optimizing a system's performance achieved full NIC and disk bandwidth saturation, but its explanation of the optimization was completely wrong. The system, which uses a single…
VMware vSAN's Express Storage Architecture (ESA) offers significant performance improvements over the legacy Original Storage Architecture (OSA) for mixed workloads, including transactional and AI tra…
A developer successfully deployed Hermes Agent on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano (8 GB) for self-hosted AI agent runtime, achieving a silent, low-power automation box running 24/7. The setup uses Ubuntu 2…
A benchmark by Alluxio and Anyscale shows that using Alluxio as a distributed NVMe cache for Ray Data reduces cross-region training data read times from 4,241 seconds to 208 seconds, a 20x speedup, by…
Hardkernel has announced the ODROID-H5 single-board computer, featuring onboard 10 GbE networking and four M.2 slots for expanded storage and peripheral customization. The board uses an Intel N300 pro…
ClickHouse Cloud users can now provision a fully managed Postgres service backed by local NVMe storage, offering up to 10x faster transactional performance and native change data capture (CDC) for rea…
A developer built Micro-Expert-Router, a Rust inference engine that streams Mixture-of-Experts model weights directly from NVMe SSDs using io_uring with O_DIRECT, eliminating the need for GPU VRAM. Th…
This article provides a technical guide for installing TrueNAS SCALE on a 16GB partition of a large NVMe drive, rather than using the entire disk, to conserve storage space. It details how to modify t…
The article describes a problem where a user reinstalled Debian on a new NVMe drive with the same hostname, causing both the old and new drives to have identically named LVM volume groups ("heartofgla…