VMware ESXi 64-bit Arm support announced to help VMware customers manage edge deployments of virtualized workloads on non-x86 infrastructure
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.
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
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 presentation at Hot Chips 30 showed off huge I/O, effective 32 channel DDR4 and upcoming support for NVLink 3.0
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 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
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
At Hot Chips 30, NVIDIA released details on the switch chips underpinning the DGX-2. The NVSwitch chips are 18 port switch chips that help 16 NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs act as a single big GPU
The NVIDIA DGX-2 was the subject of a Hot Chips 30 talk where the company discussed the systems architecture in more detail