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LIVE: Micron's 245TB SSD and What Extreme Density Enables at Scale https://t.co/L3cpum0Ws3

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Great track day at COTA with @HPE

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Dell Pro Precision 9 T2 review: Xeon 658X, four channels of DDR5-6400 up to 1TB, two hot-plug E3.S Gen5 SSDs, RTX PRO 6000 at 300W or 600W. 39% ahead of the Core T2 multi-core. https://t.co/h6dlj5lnUp #Dell #Xeon6 #Workstation @Dell @IntelBusiness

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A mockup in hand, the real one bolted into Astrolab's FLIP rover: HPE Spaceborne Computer-4, with KIOXIA SSDs inside, flies to the lunar south pole in late 2026 to run AI inference, LiDAR navigation, and HPC benchmarks on the Moon. #HPE #Spaceborne #KIOXIA @HPE_Compute

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HPE Spaceborne Computer-4 is headed to the lunar south pole on Astrolab’s FLIP rover: a fanless 2.6 lb module with two 1TB KIOXIA BG6 SSDs capped at 5W, running HPL, HPCG and AI inference on the Moon. https://t.co/4YsdyhpGmI #HPE #Spaceborne #KIOXIA @HPE_Compute @KIOXIAAmerica

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Meta’s Prometheus supercluster runs 64 of every 72 GPUs per NVL72 rack with 8 as spares, cut interruptions 99% from ~1,000 per 8K GPUs a day, and is scaling toward 1 million GPUs. https://t.co/UHWZIrNSFB #Meta #NVL72 #AIInfrastructure @AIatMeta @NVIDIAAI

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Surface Laptop Ultra review: the RTX Spark N1X ran a 35B coding agent at 89 tok/s and won the multi-core CPU tests, but we had one critical problem.
https://t.co/vL0W8GpqVR #SurfaceLaptopUltra #RTXSpark #WindowsOnArm

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Single slot, 165W, 32GB: the RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition matched a 350W L40S at short context, 1,107 vs 995 tokens/s on Ministral 3 14B FP8. Replaces the work of 3x L4 GPUs.
https://t.co/dPNe3jHr0H #NVIDIA #RTXPRO4500 #Blackwell @nvidia

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245TB in one E3.L SSD. The Micron 6600 ION fits an exabyte in 6 racks and returns ~120kW of power budget at scale, enough to run a GB200 NVL72. We go live with Micron’s Bill Bollengier Thu Oct 15, 2pm ET: https://t.co/x79PLj95s1 #Micron #SSD #DataCenter @MicronTech

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Crescent Island is now Intel GPU D-series: up to 480GB LPDDR5X at 1.5TB/s, 1.3 PFLOPS FP8, 350W PCIe, sampling now. Intel’s own card is 160GB; partners go to 480GB. Plus Intel’s 46,000-core ORv3 racks:
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#Intel #OCP2026 #AIInference @intel

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Micron 9650 PRO SSDs in hand: PCIe Gen6 x4, E3.S 7.5mm, 7.68TB on these. Micron rates the 9650 at up to 28GB/s sequential reads, double what a Gen5 x4 drive can move. Capacities in the family run to 30.72TB.

Gen6 drives need next-gen servers, more on that soon from the lab.

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@KentBunn No, with it so close to SC26, we opted to push our investment there.

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32,768 Zen 6 cores in one ORv3 rack: AMD Helion mixes 256c Venice at 400W and 600W with 96c high-frequency nodes for agents, or adds up to 16 MI350P in an all-in-one build. Planned for November. https://t.co/cxo8ISpWZA #AMD #EPYC #AgenticAI @AMDServer

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HPE ProLiant Gen13 opens with four AMD EPYC Venice servers: a 10U DL585a with 8 double-wide GPUs on PCIe Gen6, a 256-core 1U DL525 with 16 memory channels, and two ORV3 XD nodes. iLO 8 adds Auto-SED. https://t.co/B6SsTjvgY3 #HPE #ProLiant #AMDEPYC @HPE_Compute

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Two DGX Station GB300s in a Cluster: GLM-5.3: 188 output tok/s on one Station, 5,018 on the pair. GLM-5.2: 11x at 32 streams. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 5,248 tok/s. Five models tested:
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#DGXStation #GB300 #AIInfrastructure @NVIDIAAI

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Podcast #153: ServerPartDeals CEO Max Manekia on refurbished drives as supply chain strategy. 100% sector scans, grading, advance RMA, 2,200 drives a day. 38 min; audio on your podcast app too. https://t.co/PSLew1VFQZ #ServerPartDeals #HardDrives #Podcast @ServerPartDeals

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New 800G switch, a pile of 100G breakouts, and for once the lab labeled them. Brady M511: 1.5-inch edge-to-edge labels at 300 dpi, five devices on one mobile printer, auto cutter, and very durable. #Brady #DataCenter #CableManagement @Brady_Corp

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NVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB: $4,999, Oct. 23, from Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, and MSI. Two units pair over a QSFP cable to 128GB and 200B parameters; NVIDIA says up to 1.7x on Qwen3.8 27B over a single 128GB unit. https://t.co/Os70DRo2oQ #DGXSpark #NVIDIA #LocalAI @NVIDIAAI

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New in Dell PowerStoreOS 5.0: MPA goes granular across 61 protected actions, performance forecasts run 3 months out, anomaly detection hits the dashboard, admins rotate D@RE keys on demand, and much more! https://t.co/fF05lr3FUa #PowerStore #Dell #Storage @Dell

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NetApp Novus puts pNFS metadata on x86 Data Director nodes and leaves AFF A90 pairs to serve data. Standard NFSv4.2 clients, no agent. 100 TB/s target, orderable now, first customers within two months.
https://t.co/HErZLqJGE6
#NetApp #AIStorage #pNFS @NetApp