At SC17 in Denver, the NEC Vector Engine 1.0 co-processor was a welcome change from the sea of GPUs and CPUs and is designed to fit in standard x86 servers
New Lenovo ThinkStation P520 P520c and P52s Workstations launched for professional users with Intel Xeon W CPUs and Quadro Graphics
At SC17 NVIDIA GPU Cloud showed how it is one important step in democratizing deep learning and HPC applications. NVIDIA also showed off Tesla V100 hardware
At SC17 Los Alamos National Lab and BitScope showed off a 3000 core in 30U solution using 750 Raspberry Pi nodes to form a low power development cluster
Red Hat RHEL 7.4 introduces support for ARM servers enabling enterprises to utilize ARMv8-A servers from companies like Cavium and Qualcomm
The new HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 AMD EPYC system unveiled with up to 64 cores, 128 threads, 4TB of RAM and 24x NVMe SSDs and iLO management
Dell EMC PowerEdge C4140 Launched 1U 4x GPU with NVLINK and support for NVIDIA Tesla P100 and V100 "Volta" GPUs for AI and deep learning
At Supercomputing this year in Denver, Intel had a number of announcements. We were pre-briefed by Intel on the SC17 announcements and were somewhat surprised to see that Knights Mill was not going to be released at SC17, however, it is being demonstrated heavily. Intel is far from the fringes of the Top500 list. Instead it is found in...
Production Cavium ThunderX2 servers from Gigabyte and Ingrasys are now shipping and are being shown off extensively at the SC17 conference in Denver, CO
We go into what the ZFS ZIL SLOG is. We also show a few common choices as ZFS ZIL SLOG devices, how they work and what makes a good one