Hardops

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   by Hardops 7y ago

   Yes, we got the most perf when we used NPS=4. Stay tuned for 3 more blogs this week ... they will give deeper analysis on the perf % gains we saw and why.
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   by Hardops 7y ago

   No GPUs, yet. Yes, the 3TB is 2/3 used for Caching, and 1/3 as a local storage for our SSL/DNS/Firewall/etc.
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   by Hardops 7y ago

   We're still using ODM built servers that are available for the public. Yes, moving off the shared infra chassis helps us improve reliability & cost thru simplicity, and enables us to scale our infrastructure using single nodes vs.
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   by Hardops 7y ago

   Yes, the chassis form factor does not matter much to us at this point. Yes, we're using OCP Nic ... and many other components that are used by other servers/clouds. Nothing proprietary except our SW stack.
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   by Hardops 7y ago

   hey, this is Rami ... I lead HW team at Cloudflare. Great Q! .. in our case, there was a sweet spot between the number of cores, the L3 cache per core, NUMA latencies, mem bw per core, cost & power. The 48c gave us the best req per seco
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   by Hardops 7y ago

   This is Rami from Cloudflare ... we actually use DAC Cables w/ SFP+ for all of our 25G nics.
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   by Hardops 7y ago

   hey, this is Rami .. I lead hw team in Cloudflare. Great observation! these chassis are designed for 19" racks, not OCP spec. But, who does not love green thumb screws!