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
Another year has gone by in the journey and STH is now 9 years old! Thank you to our awesome community and a look ahead at what we are working on behind the scenes this year.
We found an AMD Ryzen server motherboard with IPMI coming in the form of the Tyan Tomcat EX S8015 during our visit with Tyan at Computex 2018 in Taipei
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