ARMs Race: Ampere Altra takes on the AWS Graviton2
March 11, 2021 12:00 PM
A comparison between the Ampere Altra and the AWS Graviton2, the two ARM Neoverse N1-based processors....
An introduction to three-phase power and PDUs
December 04, 2020 2:05 PM
This blog is a quick Electrical Engineering 101 session going over specifically how 3-phase PDUs work, along with some good practices on how we use them...
ASICs at the Edge
November 27, 2020 1:00 PM
At Cloudflare, we pride ourselves in our global network that spans more than 200 cities in over 100 countries. To accelerate all that traffic through our network, there are multiple technologies at play. So let’s have a look at one of the cornerstones that makes all of this work....
Getting to the Core: Benchmarking Cloudflare’s Latest Server Hardware
November 20, 2020 12:00 PM
A refresh of the hardware that Cloudflare uses to run analytics provided big efficiency improvements....
Anchoring Trust: A Hardware Secure Boot Story
November 17, 2020 12:00 PM
As a security company, we pride ourselves on finding innovative ways to protect our platform to, in turn, protect the data of our customers. Part of this approach is implementing progressive methods in protecting our hardware at scale....
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March 01, 2020 1:00 PM
Why Cloudflare Chose AMD EPYC for Gen X Servers
Looking back at this week's posts on the design, specifications, and performance of Cloudflare’s Gen X servers using AMD CPUs. Every server can run every service. This architectural decision has helped us achieve higher efficiency across the Cloudflare network. ...
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February 28, 2020 2:00 PM
Securing Memory at EPYC Scale
At Cloudflare, we encrypt data both in transit (on the network) and at rest (on the disk). Both practices address some of the most common vectors used to exfiltrate information and these measures serve to protect sensitive data from attackers but, what about data currently in use...
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February 27, 2020 2:00 PM
Gen X Performance Tuning
We have partnered with AMD to get the best performance out of this processor and today, we are highlighting our tuning efforts that led to an additional 6% performance. Thermal design power (TDP) and dynamic power, amongst others, play a critical role when tuning a system. ...
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February 26, 2020 12:00 PM
Impact of Cache Locality
Our Gen X servers process more requests per second per core than our previous fleet. The AMD 2nd Gen EPYC 7642 processor’s large L3 cache minimizes L3 cache misses, and the time-savings add up quickly....
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February 25, 2020 2:00 PM
An EPYC trip to Rome: AMD is Cloudflare's 10th-generation Edge server CPU
As we started looking at production ready systems to power our Gen X solution, we took a long look at what is available to us in the market today and we’ve made our decision. We’re moving on from Gen 9's 48-core setup of dual socket Intel Xeon Platinum 6162's to a 48-core single ...
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February 24, 2020 1:00 PM
Cloudflare’s Gen X: Servers for an Accelerated Future
We designed and built Cloudflare’s network to be able to grow capacity quickly and inexpensively; to allow every server, in every city, to run every service; and to allow us to shift customers and traffic across our network efficiently....
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October 10, 2018 3:17 PM
A Tour Inside Cloudflare's G9 Servers
This is about our latest generation G9 server. From a G4 server comprising of 12 Intel Sandybridge CPU cores, our G9 server has 192 Intel Skylake CPU cores ready to handle today’s load across Cloudflare’s network....
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