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Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 3 posts
CXL Memory Tiering: How Far Has the Kernel Come — What DAMON Merged, and What the Numbers Didn't Measure ♪ Listenable
Even when CXL hardware is plugged into a server, it's the kernel that actually decides which pages are hot and which are cold and moves them. As of July 2026, Linux mainline has received DAMON/DAMOS-based tiering pieces
2026-07-16 · 19 min read #hardware#cxl#memory#linux-kernel#performanceReviving Retired DDR4 — Meta's CXL Bridge Chip, Vistara
DDR5 prices keep rising while perfectly good DDR4 from retired servers piles up in the warehouse. Meta's Vistara, presented at ISCA 2026, is a custom CXL bridge chip that revives that old DDR4 inside modern DDR5 servers
2026-07-11 · 7 min read #cxl#infrastructure#memory#hardware#sustainabilityAI Hardware Accelerators 2026 — NVIDIA Blackwell / AMD Instinct MI400 / Google TPU Trillium / Cerebras WSE-3 / Groq LPU / Tenstorrent / Etched Sohu / Furiosa / Rebellions Deep Dive ♪ Listenable
In 2026 AI hardware is no longer an NVIDIA-only story. Blackwell (B100/B200/GB200 NVL72/B300) landed at GTC 2024, Rubin is queued for September 2026, AMD Instinct has marched from MI300X through MI355X to MI400 Helios, I
2026-05-16 · 20 min read #ai-hardware#gpu#accelerator#nvidia-blackwell#b100