Hacker News with Generative AI: Server Technology

Mellanox ConnectX-5: iRISC reverse engineering (irisc-research-syndicate.github.io)
NVIDIA/Mellanox has made a series of smart network interface cards(SmartNICs/NICs) called ConnectX primarily for server and datacenter uses. In this series of articles we will take a look at its firmware, and try to reverse engineer the instruction set for the iRISC processor.
Reverse Engineering, Hardware, Networking, Server Technology
19 points by irisc-hacker 11 days ago | 4 comments
AmpereOne: Cores Are the New MHz (jeffgeerling.com)
Cores are the new megahertz, at least for enterprise servers. We've gone quickly from 32, to 64, to 80, to 128, and now to 192-cores on a single CPU socket!
Hardware, Server Technology, Enterprise Computing
144 points by speckx 78 days ago | 123 comments
Cloudflare's 12th gen servers – 145% more performant and 63% more efficient (cloudflare.com)
Cloudflare is thrilled to announce the general deployment of our next generation of servers — Gen 12 powered by AMD EPYC 9684X (code name “Genoa-X”) processors.
Cloud Computing, Hardware, Performance, Server Technology
15 points by ksec 148 days ago | 0 comments