JP Morgan says agentic AI could need 7 CPUs for every GPU. Two years ago the ratio was inverese, about 1 to 8. Also in other research, agentic workloads flip to 86% CPU, 14% GPU. The agentic infrastr...

Cold boot time matters for VMs.A fast cold boot time is critical because it turns startup from a fixed infrastructure penalty into a negligible part of execution. When a system can boot in a couple m...

Kernel Bypass (DPDK/RDMA) works in HFT because it solved the latency problem for always-on persistent strategies. Traditional Linux OS adds 20-200 microseconds just moving packets through the kernel ...

For the last two decades, Linux has enjoyed a total monopoly on the Top500 list of supercomputers. It is the undisputed king of the silicon hills, powering everything from the climate models at Oak R...

TLDR; Use BareMetal OS instead of AWS Linux (the standard Amazon Linux 2/2023 used in Lambda) to shift cost-effectiveness from cloud convenience to "hardware efficiency".BareMetal OS is not just anot...

If you’ve been following the discussions on Hacker News recently, you’ve likely noticed a growing sense of dread among small-to-medium VPS providers. The "Low-End Box" market - the $3-$5/month tier t...

So why are we virtualizing full OS’s on them?IntroductionOver the last two decades, data centers have gone through quite the transformation. What began as racks of physical servers, each running a fu...