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
We show how to fix Schneider Electric APC network managed device login errors like "Maximum Connections Reached" or "The maximum number of web connections has been reached" instead of a normal login process.
If you are looking for a lower-cost commercial ZFS appliance that can handle over 10PB of raw storage (more if compressed), check out the new iXsystems TrueNAS M-Series with features like NVDIMM write cache and 100GbE
A year after cleaning up the Intel Atom C2000 series AVR54 bug, we have a fix for a similar issue in the Intel Atom E3800 series of Bay Trail SoCs. This one we will call VLI89, can cause systems to stop booting, and also required a silicon stepping revision
Our Supermicro X11SDV-16C-TP8F review shows why this is an extremely versatile and powerful network and virtualization appliance for edge, on-prem, and customer-prem deployments. It features the Intel Xeon D-2183IT with 16 cores and up to 512GB of RAM