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Company blog · blog.enfabrica.nethardwaresystems
enfabrica is the company blog at blog.enfabrica.net, writing about hardware and systems. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Next Step in High-Performance Distributed Computing Systems”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite this Enfabrica blog as a source on distributed computing hardware, such as its post on scaling to 100K+ GPU AI clusters with flat 2-tier network designs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Next Step in High-Performance Distributed Computing Systems4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-08-25
What Hacker News says?
I believe TigerBeetle are alluding to their integration of protocol-aware recovery [1], which is a worthy consideration for the log implementation. Yet another engineering concern which can be offloaded. If the disaggregated log integrates some mechanism to support leadership "above" it [2], it can be functionally identical to a converged log. Efficiency-wise yes there will be some extra network messages – but netwo…
Comment linking /the-next-step-in-high-performance-distributed-computing-systems-4f98f13064ac
on “The disaggregated write-ahead log (2023)”Submitted The Next Step in High-Performance Distributed Computing Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIn a similar vein, this was news to me recently: > here’s a chart comparing the throughputs of typical memory, I/O and networking technologies used in servers in 2020 against those technologies in 2023 > Everything got faster, but the relative ratios also completely flipped > memory located remotely across a network link can now be accessed with no penalty in throughput The graphs demonstrate it very clearly: https:…
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on “In-memory vs. disk-based DB: Why do you need a larger than memory architecture?”Submitted The Changing Relationship Between Memory, I/O, and Network Bandwidth as a story · 1 points
HN discussionEnfabrica "build[s] foundational fabrics for the next decade of high-performance distributed computing, through intelligent hardware-software co-design." - [Scaling to 100K+ GPU AI Clusters Using Flat 2-tier Network Designs]( https://blog.enfabrica.net/scaling-to-100k-gpu-ai-clusters-u... ) (Enfabrica blog) - [Nvidia-backed Enfabrica releases system aimed at easing memory costs] ( https://www.reuters.com/business/nv…
Comment linking /scaling-to-100k-gpu-ai-clusters-using-flat-2-tier-network-designs-a9464d587f38
on “Nvidia just spent over $900M on Enfabrica CEO, technology licenses”Submitted Enfabrica Emerges from Stealth Mode as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> it's a bit difficult to wrap my mind around how Arrow will help in distributed systems Comparing with the role of Protobuf is perhaps easiest, there's a good FAQ entry [0] which concludes: "Arrow and Protobuf complement each other well. For example, Arrow Flight uses gRPC and Protobuf to serialize its commands, while data is serialized using the binary Arrow IPC protocol". This will be increasingly significant due…
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on “How Query Engines Work”