With the launch of Xeon Scalable, Intel did away with the Xeon E7 and E5 brands. Instead, it introduced the precious metals and the Intel Xeon Platinum has been a marketing headache ever since. We explore some of the reasons why and what we are doing about it
After years of operating as a private company owned by private equity firms and Michael Dell, Dell Technologies is going public again but will leave VMware as a separate publicly traded company 81% owned by Dell Technologies
We saw a 6.4TB Samsung SZ985 Z-NAND array in a GPU compute platform from Quanta QCT along with some of the new QCT QuantaGrid Q72D-2U 4-socket servers
Kuberenetes 1.11 is our with CoreDNS and IPVS load balancing hitting GA for the popular container orchestration and management platform
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