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2021.03.24
Current State of Solid-State Storage
Spinning drives and fans are the 2 major sources of potential failures inside an otherwise reliable system. Replacing the traditional spinning drives will move the overall system-reliability up another notch. SSDs are not only more reliable, but generally faster in both ultimate read/write performance as well as access latencies which results to more responsive systems. There is plethora of choices of solid-state drives, and we’ll quickly look go through the interfaces and form factors that stuck around, and those that didn’t.
2021.02.19
TDP vs Power consumption
TDP is often misunderstood as the power consumption of the particular component. As the acronym implies, it is a thermal solution requirement for being able to dissipate heat from the particular sustained power. In modern processors and accelerators, there are mechanisms to allow the components to exceed their base clock, thereby increasing the power consumption. This behavior has a variety of trade names, but can be generally summed up to “boost” or “turbo.” This allows the processors to maximize performance when thermal headroom is available, at the cost of increased power usage.
2021.02.03
Bfloat16 – a brief intro
AI calculation is computationally expensive, especially with the larger number sets of working with FP32. Half precision FP16 floating point has only 8bit precision significand with 5bit for exponent which has reduced precision and rangeof represented numbers compared to FP32.
2021.01.25
Introduction to technologies behind 5G infrastructure
From closed, propriety, vertical to standard, commodity, horizontal hardware/software/platform.Greatly reduce CAPEX and OPEX for telecom operators.A new business model of virtualized, modularized, and customized micro-services (network slices).
2021.01.19
Small Cell Accelerators
we are going to take a look at 5G focused accelerator. Given the rise in the interest of Enterprise private 5G networks, there are demands for general purpose platforms that can run 5G network stack as well as providing additional microservices on or near the systems running the 5G networks. To maximize performance on these platforms, generally x86, we need another type of accelerator specifically for the 5G workload.