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Inside the HPE Aruba Networking CX 9300S: A 16 Tbps Switch With the Lid Off
At HPE Discover 2026, HPE had a CX 9300S opened up on the stand with its lid off, which is a rare look inside a shipping-class data-center switch. It is a 16 Tbps, 1U box with 32 ports of 100GbE and 8 of 400GbE, and on the inside it is mostly one giant switching ASIC…
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Intel E835 Up Close: 200GbE, 25GbE, and One Card That Reconfigures Its Ports
At HPE Discover 2026, Intel’s new E835 lineup is two ends of the same idea: the E835-CQDA2, a 200GbE card that can run as one 200G link, two 100G links, or break out to 25 and 50G, and the E835-XXVDA2, a plain dual-port 25GbE card that costs a fraction as much. Neither is an AI-fabric…
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A 4-Port 25GbE NIC in an 800G World: The Intel E830-XXVDA4F Up Close
At HPE Discover 2026, surrounded by 800G AI fabrics, the Intel Ethernet Network Adapter E830-XXVDA4F is the card most servers will actually ship with: four 25GbE SFP28 ports on Intel’s E830 controller, with the kind of precision timing and security features that matter more in the real world than another zero on the port speed.…
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96GB and 600 Watts: The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition Up Close
At HPE Discover 2026, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition is the heavyweight of NVIDIA’s RTX PRO line: 96GB of GDDR7 and 24,064 Blackwell cores in a dual-slot, passively cooled card that pulls up to 600 watts. HPE showed it next to the ProLiant Compute DL380a Gen12, the 4U accelerator server built to…
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32GB and 165 Watts in a Single Slot: The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition Up Close
At HPE Discover 2026, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition is the GPU that gets interesting precisely because it is not a flagship. It packs 32GB of GDDR7 and 10,496 Blackwell cores into a single-slot, passively cooled card that draws just 165 watts, and HPE showed it next to the ProLiant DL380 Gen12…
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36 Power Supplies for One Router: The HPE Juniper PTX12012 Up Close
At HPE Discover 2026, the HPE Juniper PTX12012 is the router that makes you look at the power and cooling first. It is a 12-slot, 32U core router that scales to 518.4 terabits and 648 ports of 800G, fed by a back wall of up to 36 power supply modules. I found the PTX12012 staged…
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204.8T of Switching Capacity Per Tray in the AMD Helios AI Rack
At HPE Discover 2026, the most interesting thing I found on the networking side was not a GPU. It was the tray feeding them: the HPE Juniper QFX5252, a scale-up switch carrying 204.8 terabits of capacity in a single liquid-cooled module for the AMD Helios AI rack. Walking the floor on June 18 in Las…
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Before AI Clusters, There Was This 11,000-Pound Supercomputer Beast
At HPE Discover 2026, one of the most interesting machines on the floor is not a new AI cluster. It is a 50-year-old Cray-1 prototype that helped define what high-performance computing looked like before modern data centers existed. Walking the floor at HPE Discover this week, among the dense AI systems and modern HPC displays,…
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Chicken Coops: What 28 Years of Raising Chickens Taught Me About Building vs Buying
I got my first chicken at the Butler Fair when I was three years old. That’s not a figure of speech; my parents have the photo. Twenty-eight years later I’m running Silkies and ISA Browns at Stella Manor, and I’ve been through just about every coop configuration you can imagine: coops I built from scratch,…
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First Connealy Total Package Calf on the Ground And She’s Exactly What We Were After
It’s been a busy spring and summer here at Stella Manor, and I’ve been putting off writing this update because, honestly, things haven’t slowed down enough to sit at a keyboard. But this one deserves its own post. We have our first Connealy Total Package calf on the ground, a heifer, and she has the…
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