Our review of the Gigabyte MB51-PS0 which is a big ATX size Intel Xeon D-2123IT platform that exposes just about every feature of the SoC while providing support for massive storage, 10Gbase-T and even GPUs
Our ASUS WS C621E SAGE motherboard review. We show why this dual Intel Xeon Scalable (LGA3647) platform with PCIe slots, U.2 NVMe ports and up to 768GB of ECC RAM is a great workstation platform. We also show how it has iKVM features that make it useful as a server for AI and deep learning applications
We take a look at the Intel Xeon D-2100 series OCP Twin Lakes platform powering Facebook. The cartridges feature 18 core Intel Xeon D-2191 SoCs, multi-host adapter networking, flexible and m.2 storage. We even found a water cooled version of the Xeon D server node
We now have the follow-up 2nd gen AMD Ryzen CPUs featuring higher clock speed, improved IPC and cache speed, 12nm process, and lower power.
The Cray CS500 Supercomputer platform now features AMD EPYC for its supercomputer platform. The Cray CS500 offers a range of compute, interconnect, and storage options for customers. This is also a big win for AMD EPYC in the HPC market
Our Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd review shows why this is the 2U platform if you want excellent management and serviceability with the newest features like Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs, 25GbE, SAS3, and NVMe storage.
We have a summary of key changes for VMware vSphere 6.7 the newest release. Both VMware vSphere and vSAN 6.7 have new capabilities but also drop support for a few generations of hardware and add Spectre and Meltdown patching by default
We share our Intel Xeon Gold 6136 benchmarks and review. These CPUs have 12 high-speed cores and extra cache which make them a nice balance of single and multi-threaded performance. We also have power consumption data from our testing
EPCC announced a 4096 core deployment of Cavium ThunderX2 using a HPE Apollo 70 system to accelerate porting HPC applications to ARM architectures
Our Supermicro AS-4023S-TRT review is of a dual AMD EPYC 4U tower server that can be installed either in pedestal or rackmount configurations for branch office deployments