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Making the Right Hardware Choices
Ceph Days London 2024. A practical discussion of matching Ceph hardware to workload, failure domains and the performance a system must deliver.
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Investigations that show the method
23 coding deployments on Strix Halo
A controlled comparison that separates throughput, context behaviour and answer quality instead of treating tokens per second as the answer.
DeepSeek V4 Flash: the long run
A sustained ROCm test that asks whether an apparently working model remains stable when the session is allowed to continue.
SPDK NVMe-oF target setup
A reproducible setup route with the hugepage, binding, transport and verification details that usually decide whether the test works.
S3 ranged-download benchmarking
A test of multipart uploads and ranged downloads that keeps object shape, client concurrency and measurement boundaries visible.