For ISC 2018 ASRock Rack EPYCD8 based solutions can utilize up to 4x PCIe x16 GPUs. There are a total of 88x PCIe 3.0 lanes via expansion slots, two M.2 headers, 2x Mini SAS HD ports and a SATA DOM port to let you build the AMD EPYC server of your dreams.
At ISC 2018 Intel Omni-Path 200Gbps generation was announced. The new Intel OPA200 expected in 2019 will require a new chip design or a dual PCIe 3.0 x16 setup to handle 200Gbps. At the show, Intel also announced some pedestrian gains in systems powered by Intel Xeon in the Top500 list.
NVIDIA touts new Top500 wins on the June 2018 list and has a handful of announcements to make at ISC 2018. The NVIDIA Tesla V100 is still the company's top bin.
As data centers ramp adoption fo the 25GbE / 100GbE generation, the QCT QuantaMesh T9032-IX9 is looking to next-generation hyperscale and telco networks as a 32-port 400GbE switch
We found the Innodisk OCuLinkDOM which is a NVMe DOM that can attain up to 1.6GB/s speeds, or about 5x what fast SATADOMs can reach.
This week NVIDIA announces support for heterogeneous GPU Kubernetes clusters, a new open source optimization tool called PyTorch Apex, the DALI data loading library, and the availability of TensorRT 4
A rough evening and morning in the STH infrastructure after the power failed and several infrastructure pieces did not come back up. That includes our primary firewall due to the Intel Atom C2000 series AVR54 bug.
Our Synology DS1618+ review finds that this 6-bay desktop NAS unit is a powerful solution for SMB and ROBO NAS storage needs
A new value SAS SSD segment is emerging as the Toshiba RM5 answers the call of replacing SATA with better performing SAS3 SSDs for SAS RAID controllers already found in servers
The US DOE's newest Supercomputer is Arm based. The Astra supercomputer for the NNSA at Sandia National Labs is based on a HPE Apollo 70 platform running Cavium ThunderX2 and Mellanox EDR Infiniband