MLPerf Inference v3.1 Benchmarking Guide (Or: How to Spend a Few Hours Pretending to Be a Data Center)

Drop-In Hardware Diagnostics: How I Built (and use) a GPT to Analyze Systems (running Linux) in Minutes

https://chatgpt.com/g/g-693ccd5961008191be1c44b2945adf2e-diagzip-analyzer (GPT link) Modern systems are complicated. Not just servers — everything. Between PCIe Gen5, NUMA weirdness, NIC lane constraints, GPU fabrics, RDMA stacks, and vendor-specific quirks, it’s incredibly easy to misinterpret, or flat out not understand, what a system is actually doing versus what the

Core Architecture and You; The Importance of Storage Tuning on AMD CPU's

When evaluating storage performance, particularly in high-throughput and low-latency environments with local NVMe and NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF), the CPU architecture becomes far more than just the background actor on stage. With AMD’s EPYC Genoa and particularly Turin families, we’re talking about platforms architected from the ground up to handle

Converting Only (server) Fans to Noctua Fans

FOREWORD: First and foremost you should absolutely go watch the Tech Tangents video. Its fun, and educational. I have a long standing friendly relationship with Shelby and stand wholly behind his mission of archival and preservation. What he is doing is more important to technology history than anything that I

NVMe Command Guide for Homelab Warriors: Know Your Drive Like a Pro

So, you’ve got some fancy NVMe drives in your homelab, and you’re ready to flex your hardware muscles. But it’s not just about slapping those drives into your system and calling it a day. If you want to maximize performance (or just keep your drives from dying