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Lenovo ThinkStation P520
Our Lenovo ThinkStation P520 review finds a powerful and compact professional workstation powered by an Intel Xeon processor and NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics
AMD ROCm
TensorFlow 1.8 with AMD ROCm support is out now including a docker container implementation. Still, supporting a four-month-old release risks being too little too late. The industry needs a strong AMD to provide choice for deep learning professionals
VMware ESXi On 64 Bit Arm
VMware ESXi 64-bit Arm support announced to help VMware customers manage edge deployments of virtualized workloads on non-x86 infrastructure
Amazon Relational Database Service RDS On VMware
At VMworld 2018, Amazon Relational Database Service on VMware was announced which will allow VMware customers to use RDS services on-premise or in the AWS cloud.
AMD Radeon Pro V340 Cover
The AMD Radeon Pro V340 dual Vega 56 solution has a total of 112 compute units and 32GB of memory onboard to support up to 32x 1GB VDI users per card. AMD also uses hardware virtualization so it does not have NVIDIA GRID-like licensing. We have some exclusive hardware details
Silverstone CS01 HS Top Hot Swap And IO View
We use the Silverstone CS01-HS mITX case with 6x 2.5" hot-swap bays and 2x internal 2.5" drive bays to build the Improbably Hyper-Converged NAS. A system with 16 cores, 128GB of RAM, 40Gbps of networking, Optane, SSDs, and a hard drive array in a near silent compact package
IBM POWER9 Scale Out And Up Memory
IBM POWER9 presentation at Hot Chips 30 showed off huge I/O, effective 32 channel DDR4 and upcoming support for NVLink 3.0
Intel Nehalem Through Cascade Lake Core Scaling High End
We cover how at Hot Chips 30, Intel made some new disclosures around the next generation Intel Xeon Scalable dubbed Cascade Lake-SP or Cascade Lake. We cover speeds and feeds, Optane Persistent Memory, VNNI instructions, side channel mitigations. In the end, we issue a challenge to Intel.
Supermicro AS 1013S MTR Front Three Quarter
Supermicro is at risk of being delisted from the NASDAQ on Friday, August 22, 2018, because of its ongoing accounting investigation and failing to file SEC documents in a timely manner. We provide some context from the latest earnings call
Victor Peng Keynote Hot Chips 30
We are at Hot Chips 30's keynote by Victor Peng, CEO of Xilinx about the company's vision for adaptable computing and their upcoming ACAP