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
QNAP TS-1677XU rackmount AMD Ryzen NAS spotted with 10GbE SFP+ networking onboard and options for up to 8 core AMD Ryzen 7 CPUs and 64GB of RAM
At Computex 2018, Seasonic showed off a number of existing and server PSU designs that are nearly ready for production including redundant 80 Plus Platinum PSUs
The Wiwynn XC200G2 is a PCIe Gen4 based chassis with up to 16x compute accelerators such as GPUs, FPGAs, and deep learning accelerators
At Computex 2018, ADATA showed STH a number of interesting server products including NVMe SSDs in many form factors, SATA DOMs and USB DOMs, as well as NVDIMMs
We checked out the ASUS server suite at Computex 2018 and saw innovations in the Intel Xeon 2U 4-node designs, an unannounced single socket AMD EPYC 7000 series platform and even an Intel Xeon Scalable ATX motherboard with 10GbE SFP+ and a full 12 DIMM slots
At Computex 2018 we had the opportunity to check out the Gigabyte H261-T60 2U 4-node dual Cavium ThunderX2 server. Patrick was also interviewed about the ThunderX2 performance and ecosystem.
During a visit to the iEi Group booth at Computex 2018, we found the first AMD EPYC 3000 series platform that we have seen in the wild. The iEi Puzzle is a single die AMD EPYC 3000 platform designed as a flexible networking appliance
At Computex 2018 we saw a new iteration of the Silverstone CS381 desktop chassis that provides 8x 3.5" hot-swap bays and 2-4 2.5" internal SSD spots for a mATX server