The hardware roster.

How to read this page

• An appearance is a row in a published table or a field in a published kit.
• A figure is quoted with its conditions — model, quantisation, runtime and its version, power cap, context — never normalised; a figure without its column is not a smaller fact, it is a different one.
• There is no ranking here. Where the shelf holds one card under two conditions, both rows are printed, one under the other.
• One identity can hold several published spellings; older pages name a card by its memory class, and this page joins them.
• Every row on this first edition was carried from its page by hand and proved against that page’s own row by a gate; the readers that will take the rows off the pages themselves are the next edition, and this line will say when the road changes.
• A figure an exhibit later corrected carries the correction, and says so.

And one fence this page does not have. The model roster checks what kind of thing each entry is against the licence ledger’s own heading for it, and refuses to build when the two disagree. The ledger carries rows for models, weights and software and not one for hardware, so the identity table here is typed with no second surface to check it against. What stands in for it: an unregistered spelling is a broken build, a spelling two identities claim is a broken build, and every figure on every card page had to survive a gate that re-read it against the page it came from.

What is not on this page, and why

Two kinds of thing are missing on purpose, and both are listed rather than left out, because a name absent from an index reads the same as a name nobody looked for.

Strings that name a ROLE rather than a machine. A kit or a page substitutes a job for a host — and half of these are the published OUTPUT of a redaction pass, so resolving one to a box would not be filling a gap, it would be undoing a publication decision from the other side of the fence.

• <harness host> — the same placeholder for the other end of the same run — the machine that drove the bench, not the machine under test
• <serving host> — a PLACEHOLDER the power bench's rung summaries write where a hostname was (what-150-watts-buys/data/rungs/*/summary.json) — the angle brackets are the kit saying the value was withheld, not a name
• card A — how-the-print-lab-works names it as a convention NOT YET IN USE — "if a second card ever joins it"
• cloud (agent harness) — the same — somebody else's machine
• cloud (hosted endpoint) — not this workshop's hardware (outside-judges · candidates[].hardware_class)
• http://127.0.0.1:11434 — a transport — every machine's own address
• http://<local daemon — address withheld> — a transport with its host withheld
• http://[gpu-box-daemon] — the same published alias, as a bracketed daemon address
• http://the-gpu-box[:port redacted] — the same published alias, as an endpoint with its port withheld
• local — a transport, not a machine
• the 96 GB box's production seat A — a SEAT on a card, not a card
• the 96 GB box's production seat B — a SEAT on a card, not a card
• the bench endpoint — a role the kit substitutes for a host (the-instrument-travels, the-same-sixteen)
• the inference workstation (box-neutral by house law) — a role — the kit says so inside the string itself
• the public host — a ROLE: the web server a plate or a page is served from (how-the-print-lab-works, the-ceiling-is-not-the-corpus/data/provenance.json). It is a job in a pipeline, not a benched machine
• the reading seat — a seat on the print lab's models, not a machine; its seconds are a model figure and belong to the model roster
• the training box — a role (the-ceiling-is-not-the-corpus · corpus.host / dataset.host)
• the-gpu-box — a PUBLISHED ALIAS substituted for a host name (reading-is-fast, the-free-speed-wasnt-free, the-move)

Published exhibits that name no hardware at all. Real exhibits; they simply measure something other than a machine.

• Listen for Yourself — an audio shelf — the renders' machine is named on the exhibit that made them, never here
• Hear It for Yourself — the same: 252 published digests and a player, and no machine string anywhere on the page or in the kit
• Three librarians and a careful reader — a prose piece about retrieval; names no machine
• It Was Already There: Where New Knowledge Actually Comes From — a prose piece; names no machine
• A Dinner Party for the Dead — a prose piece; names no machine
• The Beat Lab, asked and answered — a Q&A page; names no machine
• How we work — the method page. Its only hardware-shaped string is a sha256 that happens to contain 3090 — the false-positive class an extractor must refuse, not an appearance
• Where your question goes — a prose piece; names no machine
• Two New Frontier Models at the Rules Desk — GENERIC ONLY — the graphics card it needs to answer users, which names no card. (Its 140902Z timestamp is the second false-positive class: 4090 inside a stamp.)
• The compressed photograph — GENERIC ONLY — VRAM figures throughout and no card class or model string anywhere
• Reading is fast, writing is slow — names hardware only as the-gpu-box, a PUBLISHED ALIAS substituted for a host — a NOT_A_HARDWARE label, not an appearance
• The map nobody picks up — the same published alias, in five kit files; no card, class or machine string on the page
• How the Beat Lab works — GENERIC ONLY, and it is worth saying which words: our own machines, graphics cards we own, the ordinary processor of our web server and a rented virtual machine we administer. No card, no class, no machine identity — a service page about where the work happens, which is not the same as a page that says on what

Some hardware here was never benched. The power supply, the board, the memory, the uninterruptible power supply: real named parts with prices, in the price pages, and no measurement of their own. They get a card that says what the thing is and stops there — not a card with an empty table, which reads as rows gone missing rather than as a thing nobody ran a stopwatch on.

Provenance

• Carried by hand, proved by machine — every figure on every card page was read off a published page by a person and written down with the conditions that page states. Before any deploy can serve it, tools/hardware_gate.py re-reads each one against that page’s markdown twin: the section id must still exist, the byte range must still lie inside it, the quote and the value must still be there word for word, and the card’s own name must be where the row says it is. A row that fails any of those is a broken build.
• It fails closed — if an exhibit names a card this roster has never seen, the build refuses rather than dropping the card. A missing card is a broken build, not a quiet omission.
• No new claims — no ranking, no computed ratio, no normalised per-step or per-watt figure the page did not publish. Where a comparison would need judgement the hub has not published, this page links to the page that did the work.
• No script — the filters are CSS radios and sibling selectors. Open devtools: there is nothing to find.
• The data — this page is CC BY 4.0. Attribution: strata→signal research, research.strata2signal.com/hardware/.
• Authorship — benched, drafted and audited by the workshop’s own agents under a human operator’s rulings, the same arrangement told in full here. If something on this page is wrong, tell us.