At Supercomputing 2018 we saw the launch of the Xilinx Alveo U280. Buried in the accompanying whitepaper for the 2019 product is AMD processor CCIX support which could point to AMD EPYC Rome generation support in a few quarters
Pushing 450W TDP per NVIDIA Tesla V100 the NVIDIA DGX-2H offers a mid-cycle upgrade to customers bumping performance as well as power consumption now nearing 12kW per 10U system
At SC18 STH saw the QNAP TS-2888X 28-bay deep learning NAS tower. The QNAP TS-2888X combines a NAS, an AI server, and a workstation-like chassis in a single solution. Pricing targets the ultra-premium segment of the market, so check out our thoughts.
In one of the best use cases for AI in the data center, HPE InfoSight AI management engine support is now extended to HPE ProLiant, Synergy, and Apollo systems
Western Digital Ultrastar DC ME200 uses ScaleMP for memory scaling to add a low-cost alternative to adding system RAM. This is a similar and competitive solution to Intel Memory Drive Technology with Intel Optane P4800X NVMe SSDs
We take a look at the Sugon Nebula phase change immersion cooling platform at Supercomputing 2018. This is a well-designed system for future increasingly power-hungry HPC CPUs, GPUs, and other accelerators
We saw the new Cray Shasta liquid cooling by CoolIT Systems supporting over 1024 threads per U of rack space while lowering energy consumption
Recently Patrick asked me to configure a Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 2U Intel Xeon Scalable platform as part of our review process. We are going to publish our review in the next few weeks. During the process, I found a curious option to select Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory. This was surely a configurator error allowing me to select the...
At SC18 we saw the Gigabyte H221-Q20 which is remarkable insofar as it is perhaps the only Qualcomm Centriq 2400 19in. server platform that will be commercially available.
We saw a simply huge storage system, the 106x 3.5" hard drive Inspur NF5486M5 storage server. This full storage server also houses dual Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs and can handle multiple high-speed networking options.