Hardware Notes

Real numbers from real machines: memory bandwidth, thermal throttling, VRAM budgets. The spec sheet lies; the clock speed doesn't.

1. A 9.5x Pessimization That Looked Like a Hardware Limit (2026-08-18)
2. Benchmark the Hardware Before You Benchmark the Software (2026-09-02)
3. Your SSH-Launched Benchmark Is Running at nice 5 (2026-09-02)
4. Our Kernel Benchmark Was Measuring the System Cache (2026-09-05)
5. Our Baseline Was the Three Worst Samples in the Log (2026-09-02)
6. Every GPU Out-of-Memory Error Was One sysctl (2026-09-12)
7. Can SSD Offload Fit a Model Twice Your RAM? The Arithmetic. (2026-09-12)
8. We Published a 36% Speedup and Withdrew It the Next Day (2026-09-19)
9. Our Two Machines Ran Different Models Under the Same Name (2026-09-18)