We piece together Intel Cascade Lake information and find that the next generation of Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs should be able to support more than twice the amount of memory as this generation with at least 3.84TB per socket with Intel Optane Persistent Memory
The Dell EMC Zenith Supercomputer combines different families of Intel CPUs and Omni-Path interconnects to place #265 in the latest Top500 supercomputers list. It also is showcasing its 13,000 square foot HPC and AI innovation lab
Google is now offering a cloud NAS. The Google Cloud Filestore is a cloud NAS with NFSv3 and up to 64TB shares. At launch there is a standard and a premium service level offering with the latter providing significantly more performance
The new Gigabyte H261-Z60 4-node 2U AMD EPYC 7000 series server fits up to 256 cores, 512 threads, 64x DDR4 DIMMs (8TB of RAM), 8x PCIe x16 expansion cards, 8x M.2 NVMe drives, 4x OCP mezzanine card slots and 24x SAS/ SATA SSDs into a single 2U chassis
With the launch of Xeon Scalable, Intel did away with the Xeon E7 and E5 brands. Instead, it introduced the precious metals and the Intel Xeon Platinum has been a marketing headache ever since. We explore some of the reasons why and what we are doing about it
After years of operating as a private company owned by private equity firms and Michael Dell, Dell Technologies is going public again but will leave VMware as a separate publicly traded company 81% owned by Dell Technologies
We saw a 6.4TB Samsung SZ985 Z-NAND array in a GPU compute platform from Quanta QCT along with some of the new QCT QuantaGrid Q72D-2U 4-socket servers
Kuberenetes 1.11 is our with CoreDNS and IPVS load balancing hitting GA for the popular container orchestration and management platform
We provide an update to our earlier testing with Cavium ThunderX2 power consumption figures and a comparison to Intel Xeon Scalable and AMD EPYC 7000 series
We take a look at the new Top500 supercomputers list from June 2018 and dissect some of the trends we are seeing. There are some surprises such as the dominance of 10GbE as an interconnect which we analyze