We look at some of the technical and somewhat strange aspects to the Bloomberg report on Chinese insertion of hacking chips on some Supermicro motherboards.
Dell EMC publicly publishes an initial plan to address the iDRACula vulnerability that leaves tens of millions of servers vulnerable to full remote administrative access
Xilinx Versal Prime series ACAPs bring the company's programmable logic elements, on-chip network, high-speed SerDes, DSP engines and Arm processors together to provide adaptive computing solutions for a variety of applications
We go into how the Xilinx Versal AI Core ACAP incorporates the company's AI Engines to bring high-performance low-latency AI inferencing to applications as part of the larger logic and I/O infrastructure
Since we have a bombardment of information from the Xilinx Versal ACAP launch at XDF 2018, we wanted to get information up as soon as possible. As a result, here is the Xilinx Versal ACAP launch presentation so that you can read about the new product family along with our analysis pieces.
At Xilinx XDF 2018 Arm and Xilinx announced free Cortex-M1 and Cortex-M3 processor IP to be used in conjunction with Xilinx FPGAs
Five new Inspur OCP rack server solutions are out including a new 16x GPU AI shelf. There are three new OCP compute nodes based on the OCP San Jose Intel Xeon Scalable Motherboard. Inspur is also announcing a 34 drive 2OU JBOD.
We share a perspective on the broader implications of the iDRACula vulnerability from one of the co-discoverers Adam Nielsen. Adam explains his viewpoint of a locked down BMC versus one that has more access for a server owner. These are the questions we should be asking in light of iDRACula
We investigate a recent Supermicro SYS-6049GP-TRT announcement where the company claims support for up to 20x NVIDIA Tesla T4 inferencing GPUs. We found that the image provided seems to depict the correct system, however with 16x NVIDIA Tesla V100 150W GPUs
The Synology DS119j ultra-low cost single drive NAS is launched at a sub-$100 price point. Since this unit shutters performance, reliability, and basic features to reach that low price point, it is a very different solution