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Jan 28, 2026 9 min read

12 Hours, 7 Layers, 1 Hard Wall: Debugging Memory on DGX Spark

A deep technical investigation into why MAX Engine allocates 117GB regardless of limits on NVIDIA DGX Spark's unified memory architecture - and why the solution doesn't exist in userspace

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Jan 27, 2026 7 min read

Making MAX Engine Work on NVIDIA DGX Spark: An NVML Journey

How I built an NVML library replacement to unlock GPU monitoring on Grace Blackwell unified memory architecture

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