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Server, AI & HPC Technology Insights
Expert perspectives on rack servers, GPU platforms, storage, and federal procurement from the New Tech Solutions engineering team.
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Practical notes on AI/HPC infrastructure, storage, cooling, and procurement - not generic marketing fluff.
No - treat posts as guidance. Your BOM still needs an architecture review and current silicon availability.
Silicon moves fast; confirm lead times and SKUs at quote time.
Ask marketing/sales for permission and the preferred citation - especially for public RFPs.
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Engineering and procurement insights—filter with tags or archives in the sidebar.
Switches, routers, NICs, optics, and cables that form the physical network plant.
Layered computational model inspired by biological neurons—trained on GPUs for vision, language, and more.
Memory architecture where local node RAM is faster than remote—critical for BIOS and OS tuning on multi-socket servers.
NVIDIA framework and model tooling for building LLM applications; NTS validates GPU hosts for NeMo-class workflows.
High-speed storage protocol over PCIe delivering low-latency flash I/O for databases and AI checkpoints.
Infrastructure operated in agency or enterprise facilities rather than public cloud regions.
Installing, cabling, and accepting systems at the customer site after NTS factory staging and imaging.
Open hardware designs for efficient, interchangeable data-center equipment.
Interoperable specifications (PCIe, Ethernet, OCP, etc.) that reduce lock-in across NTS BOMs.
Disaggregated RAN interfaces enabling multi-vendor radios and software on commodity servers.
Open-source private-cloud control plane for compute, storage, and networking APIs.
Fiber and optics carrying high-bandwidth links between racks, halls, and campuses.
Fifth-generation PCI Express doubling bandwidth vs Gen4—required for modern GPUs and NVMe.
Solid-state drives attached via PCIe/NVMe for maximum bandwidth inside servers.
Useful work delivered by each CPU core—guides licensing and right-sizing decisions.