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
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