Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/nvidia-bluefield-4-stx-server-for-cmx-at-ocp-2026/
At OCP 2026, we saw the NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX server for context memory (CMX) a single NVIDIA Vera platform
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/this-is-the-amd-helios-hpe-juniper-qfx5252-switch-tray-at-ocp-2026/
At OCP 2026, we saw an AMD Helios AI rack switch tray, the HPE Juniper QFX5252. This just looks super cool
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/inside-the-secretive-aws-networking-lab/
We tour a secretive AWS networking lab to see innovation from management switches up to 102.4T switches, encryption, timing, optics, and more
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/cisco-ocp-ai-networking-announcements-nvidia/
Cisco and NVIDIA team up announcing a new USFP form factor for 400G SerDes lanes. Cisco also has a few new Silicon One offerings
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/xsight-labs-e1l-dpu-for-lower-power-200gbps-dpus/
The new Xsight Labs E1L DPU brings lower core counts (8-22 Arm Neoverse N2 cores), plenty of PCIe Gen5 and 200Gbps networking into a lower power form factor
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/gigabyte-w775-v10-l01-hands-on-bringing-nvidia-gb300-deskside/
We test the Gigabyte W775-V10-L01, including getting over 2.2B tokens/ day on the Blackwell Ultra GPU, 800Gbps from the ConnectX-8 SuperNIC, and testing the NVIDIA Grace CPU with the C2C link between it and the GPU
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/touring-the-f5-big-ip-next-for-kubernetes-lab-to-make-ai-clusters-more-efficient-nvidia-dpu/
We checked out the F5 lab getting over 3x the performance from the same GPU cluster using F5 BIG-IP NEXT for Kubernetes
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/where-we-expect-amd-epyc-9006-cpus-in-the-era-of-agentic-ai/
We go into the AMD EPYC 9006 series and how the line-up aligns to the demand seens in the era of agentic AI
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/asus-ai-tech-2026-seoul-south-korea/
At the ASUS AI Tech 2026 day in Seoul, South Korea, the company brought together its partners, customers, and suppliers and I hosted a panel
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/qotom-q30952ue-review-the-new-black-box-for-intel-10g-networking/
We test the Qotom Q30952UE that delivers two SFP+ 10G ports and six 2.5GbE ports in a little black box with many surprises
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/sth-q3-2026-letter-from-the-editor-a-moving-target/
In our STH Q3 2026 Letter from the Editor we go into all that has happend in Q3 from the changing industry, to the behind-the-scenes
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/inside-the-lab-where-the-arm-agi-cpu-is-brought-to-life/
We travel to the Arm ATE lab to see what goes into bringing up a new Arm server processor, the Arm AGI CPU. It is lab tour time!
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/canonical-evolution-of-enterprise-open-source-risc-v-at-hot-chips-2026/
Canonical gave a talk about the state of enterprise open source with RISC-V at Hot Chips 2026 as we move toward broader adoption
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/sth-weekly-newsletters-you-want-to-subscribe-in-q3-2026/
Subscribe to our newsletters to stay up to date on the latest reviews and coverage from STH and more delivered to your inbox
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/asrock-rack-w890d8-2l2t-review-intel-xeon-600-server-and-workstation-platform/
In our ASRock Rack W890D8-2L2T review, we see how this Intel Xeon 600 hybrid server and workstation platform with lots of PCIe Gen5 performs
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/oxmiq-labs-hbf-in-ai-compute-at-hot-chips-2026/
At Hot Chips 2026, Oxmiq Labs went into an analysis of HBF versus HBM in AI compute and where the buzzworthy HBF fits in the ecosystem
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/openai-jalapeno-asic-at-hot-chips-2026/
We got a deep-dive on OpenAI Jalapeño at Hot Chips 2026 as the company rapidly built its own competitive AI accelerator
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/nvidia-spectrum-x-ethernet-multiplane-network-architecture-at-hot-chips-2026/
At Hot Chips 2026, NVIDIA showed how Spectrum-X and a multiplane network is its vision for AI Factory networks
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/nvidia-bluefield-4-processor-at-hot-chips-2026/
At Hot Chips 2026, NVIDIA is detailing the huge upgrades in its BlueField-4 DPU along with the reasons behind it and its scale-in networking
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/broadcom-thor-ultra-ethernet-nic-at-hot-chips-2026/
At Hot Chips 2026, we got a lot of detail on how the Broadcom Thor Ultra 800GbE NIC works and some of the performance views
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