Architecture
Storage Knowledge Every Operations Engineer Should Know
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1 Volatile Memory 1.1 REG REG (Register) is a storage unit inside the CPU, sitting right next to the arithmetic unit β€” the fastest and smallest level of the storage hierarchy. General-purpose registers (RAX/RBX/RDI on x86, and so on) take part directly in instruction execution, with access latency around 0.2–0.5 ns (roughly one clock cycle), lost on power loss, and typically only tens to hundreds of bytes.

Ceph Architecture and Operations
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Ceph is a unified distributed storage system that supports block storage (RBD), object storage (RGW), and file storage (CephFS). The official cephadm can orchestrate each daemon as a container (Docker, or Podman + Containerd); see Deploying Ceph in Containers for details. 1. Architecture 1.1 Topology and Data Paths The diagram below shows a common five-node topology (3 MON + 2 MGR + 5 OSD): MONs only need to come in odd numbers, and in a five-node deployment 3 is enough (tolerating one MON failure); 5 MONs tolerate 2 failures, but the metadata overhead is larger, so there is generally no need to run a MON on every machine.

Some Common LLM Agent Architectures
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1. Prompt Chaining Prompt chaining breaks a task down into a series of steps, where each LLM call processes the output of the previous step. 2. Routing Routing classifies the input and directs it to a specialized follow-up task. 3. Parallelization An LLM can sometimes work on a task concurrently and aggregate its outputs programmatically.

Learning the Structure of Large Models Using Qwen as an Example
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1. Introduction to the Qwen Model In April 2023, Alibaba released the beta version of Qwen. In December 2023, Alibaba open-sourced the first version of Qwen. In September 2024, Alibaba released Qwen2.5. In January 2025, Alibaba released Qwen 2.5-Max. Qwen 2.5 is the latest series of the Qwen large language

The Evolution of NVIDIA GPU Cores and Architectures
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1. Product Lines GeForce Aimed at gamers, offering powerful graphics processing capabilities and advanced gaming technologies. Common ones include the NVIDIA GTX series, the high-end RTX series, and the Titan series. Quadro Aimed at the professional market, such as designers, engineers, scientists, and content creators. Common ones include the Quadro P series and the high-end Quadro RTX series.