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BITCOS is a distribution‑aware storage layout for ternary LLM weights that replaces the standard five‑trit packing. By storing a presence bitmap and a compact sign vector, it reduces the effective bits‑per‑weight to 2 − z (z = zero density), achieving as low as 1.485 b/w on sparse models. The authors provide AVX‑512, AVX2, and Xe2 GPU unpacking kernels and show up to 1.28× speedup in matrix‑vecto…
Pirate Face offers a decentralized, torrent‑based layer that mirrors open LLM models from Hugging Face, providing checksum‑verified downloads and a drop‑in API so pipelines stay functional even if the original host disappears.
Backups involve more than copying files; you need snapshot rotation, deduplication, and off‑site storage to meet RPO goals while controlling storage and bandwidth. Using proven tools like Borg or Restic and regularly testing restores simplifies the mental load.
The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve stores 714 M barrels in ~60 underground salt‑caverns excavated by water dissolution, a cheap, low‑permeability solution that protects against attack and enables rapid drawdown, but requires brine handling and careful cavern monitoring.
The author built a Git server on object storage (objgit) and found standard Git packfiles inefficient due to random‑access and round‑trip latency. By designing a columnar, object‑storage‑native packfile format that can be accessed via HTTP range requests, they achieved acceptable performance for large repositories without client‑side changes.
A DIY home NAS built from a repurposed Zotac mini‑PC, 6×8 TB WD Red drives in a RAIDZ2 ZFS pool, encrypted boot, Wi‑Fi, custom Noctua cooling, and a front‑panel ESP32‑S3 touch screen driven by LVGL. Runs Kubuntu 24.04 with Docker‑Compose services behind Caddy, plus a self‑written dashboard and API.
The paper presents Edge0, a streaming MoE inference engine that predicts the next layer's routing one token ahead, allowing expert weights to be fetched from SSD while compute proceeds. This enables a 35 B‑parameter MoE to run on a single 24 GB machine at ~20 tokens/s using only ~3 GiB of active memory and with near‑teacher accuracy.
A hobbyist restored a Mentec M11‑based PDP‑11/83 running 2.11BSD, exposing a live status panel that shows CPU, memory, bus, storage, and networking activity while serving this web page.
Kubernetes v1.37 adds two alpha‑level storage hardening knobs: per‑volume `bindMountOptions` (e.g. noexec, nosuid, nodev) that affect the bind‑mount the runtime creates, and an `emptyDir` `mode` field to set Unix permission bits (including the sticky bit). Together they let you enforce least‑privilege policies on writable volumes without init‑containers or CSI tricks.
Google Cloud previewed cross‑cloud caching for its Borderless Lakehouse. The feature caches sub‑file Parquet blocks in Google Cloud, encrypts them with GMEK, isolates cache per tenant/region, and validates freshness via metadata checks. In tests it can reduce cross‑cloud data transfer to <5% of the original size, lowering query latency and cost for Iceberg tables stored in other clouds. BigQuery…
Dropbox details how a decade‑long program of infrastructure efficiency—forecasting, deep‑sleep servers, workload rebalancing, higher‑density storage, reliability‑based hardware refresh, and rack‑level power upgrades—has cut storage power use by >50% and created headroom for AI workloads without new data‑center builds.
The article shows how to run SeaweedFS and Garage together in a single Docker‑Compose file to provide low‑memory, S3‑compatible local storage, avoiding MinIO’s larger footprint and licensing concerns. It includes bucket‑seeding scripts and a Node.js test suite using AWS SDK v3.
Google Cloud’s GA‑available M4N VM family pairs 5th‑gen Intel Xeon CPUs with Google’s custom Titanium offload to deliver up to 1 M IOPS, 25 GiB/s block‑storage throughput, 400 Gbps VM‑to‑VM bandwidth, and a 26 GB/vCPU memory ratio (up to 5.9 TiB RAM). The design targets memory‑bound, I/O‑intensive workloads (Oracle, SAP HANA, vector search, real‑time analytics) and claims >20 % TCO reduction for…
Google Cloud adds Filestore agent volumes, a fully‑managed, elastic file‑system that automatically provisions isolated POSIX workspaces for GKE‑based AI agent sandboxes. Volumes attach in milliseconds, support RWX with file‑level locking, and charge only for used capacity with automatic tiering, aiming to cut cold‑start latency and storage waste for large‑scale agent fleets.
ClickHouse announced it has acquired RunReveal, a security data platform built on ClickHouse, to deepen its expertise in security workloads. The deal promises better guidance for security teams while keeping RunReveal's product unchanged for existing customers.
Laravel 13.32.0 adds a Mercure broadcast driver (SSE‑based real‑time), new FilesystemAdapter methods copyToDisk()/moveToDisk() for cross‑disk file moves, and enum support in Queue pause/resume APIs. Minor tweaks include default Cloud exit codes, collection return‑type fixes, and Mercure installer integration.
Vercel Hobby projects now retain fewer old deployments to manage the 10GB storage limit. The new policy keeps only the 3 most recent production and 3 most recent overall deployments, with immediate deletion for projects over capacity.
