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

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

How to Install WSL2 on Windows Server 2022 (Without Breaking Everything)

You’ve launched yourself a shiny new Windows Server 2022 installation and heard that WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is where all the cool kids are hanging out. But, of course, Microsoft hasn’t exactly made it intuitive to enable WSL2 on a server OS. My pain is now your