Built for a number of high-performance computing and AI use cases, the US DoE ORNL Summit supercomputer uses IBM Power9, NVIDIA Telsa V100, and Mellanox EDR Infiniband to achieve over 200 PFLOPS of performance
At Computex 2018 we got to try the Wiwynn ST300 1U 24 bay U.2 NVMe JBOF. This unit combines storage disaggregation principles from OCP Lightning servers and applies them to the 19" rackmount market
We stopped by Synology's showcase at Computex 2018 in Taipei and saw the new Synology RS1219+ short-depth rackmount NAS. The 2U NAS features a shallow 12-inch depth, great for space constrained edge deployments.
We spotted Asustor AS4002T and AS4004T ARM-based 10GbE NAS systems at Computex 2018 and they show how 10GbE is invading even the lower-cost NAS segments
Intel Optane 905P 380GB M.2 SSDs is teased during Computex 2018. We are finally getting an M.2 PCIe x4 iteration of Optane and expect it to be released at consumer level pricing.
At Computex 2018, AMD disclosed new EPYC servers from Cisco and HPE along with a new cloud offering. The major announcement was around the 64 core/ 128 thread next-generation AMD EPYC codenamed Rome that will arrive in 2019
Joining the EPYC value bandwagon, the HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen10 adopts a single socket AMD EPYC 7000 series server platform all in 1U with 10x NVMe SSDs
Cisco announces its first AMD EPYC 7000 series products with the Cisco UCS C4200 2U4N server with Cisco UCS C125 M5 nodes supporting up to two AMD EPYC CPUs per node and eight CPUs per 2U chassis
Aquantia and QNAP are bringing the promise of 10GbE and multi-gigabit 2.5GbE / 5GbE networking to NAS units to speed up networking at the edge and in client computing
The AIC J2024-04 is a high availability NVMe JBOF appliance with support for dual 100GbE Broadcom NVMeoF controllers and 24x dual port U.2 NVMe SSDs in a 2U form factor