The new IBM POWER9 scale-up servers launched with some awesome specs including PCIe Gen4. The IBM Power E950 is a 4 socket server with up to 48 cores/ 192 threads and 16TB of RAM. Scaling to 16 sockets, 1536 threads, and 64TB of RAM is the IBM Power E980.
Our Protectli FW4A firewall review with the Intel Atom E3845, 4GB of RAM, a 32GB SSD. We test this system (the FW4A-0-4-32) using pfSense as a lightweight and silent firewall appliance
Our Supermicro X11DAC workstation and server motherboard review shows how this dual socket Intel Xeon Scalable platform has a ton of expandability with PCIe slots and even a SAS3 HBA onboard
Gigabyte launches two new Cavium ThunderX2 servers each supporting dual sockets and up to 32 cores and 128 threads per socket. The Gigabyte R181-T90 is the 1U offering and the Gigabyte R281-T91 is the 2U offering. Both have large amounts of PCIe I/O, IPMI, and redundant power supplies
The Intel Foreshadow flaw in L1TF execution targets Intel SGX and virtual machines and is especially concerning for public cloud and enterprise virtualization cluster providers
New GPU architectures from NVIDIA do not come out often (enough.) The NVIDIA Turing architecture was finally introduced with the NVIDIA Quadro RTX line at SIGGRAPH 2018
Sporting a minimum of 12 and up to 32 cores on the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX, the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper Gen 2 is a unique flagship workstation product in the market
With up to 3.84TB of capacity, the newly launched Intel D3-S4610 SATA III 6.0gbps mixed-use SSDs are chasing a higher endurance and performance SATA flash tier
Toshiba KumoScale adds TCP to its NVMeoF solution using Marvell FastLinQ3 100GbE adapters with TCP offload acceleration. This capability expands the NVMeoF performance benefits to legacy servers
If you are using an Intel Xeon Scalable workstation and need an efficient cooler, the Noctua NH-U14S DX-3647 will maintain class leading temperatures while minimizing noise