Blog of Cody Deluisio

I’ve hung access points in hotels with a couple hundred rooms, in steel farm buildings, and in plenty of ordinary houses.

Leechburg put on its fireworks the night of July 3, and I want to put this on the record while it is fresh: I have been to a lot of shows around Pittsburgh and here in the Kiski Valley, and this was the best one I have attended in the area.

It is berry season here, and after a full afternoon in the blueberries nobody was cooking dinner.

Around here, “AI” means two things, and the whole point of what I built is connecting them.

Leechburg, PA: I’m Cody Deluisio, and I like to check out the new places that I found around town.

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.

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…

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 featur…

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.

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.