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Intel Optane 900p Four Drives
Intel just signaled that there are larger 960GB and 1.5TB Intel Optane 900p NVMe SSDs on the horizon in add-in card form factors
FreeNAS 11.1 UI
FreeNAS 11.1 brings incremental features including better hardware support. More importantly, it brings back preliminary Docker support
AMD EPYC In Socket And Carrier
Baidu and AMD announced today that Baidu is officially rolling out its single socket AMD EPYC platform targeted at AI, big data and cloud. While we do not cover every cloud design win in the industry, this is a big deal. The prevalent architecture for cloud servers has been dual socket Intel Xeon (E5) for years. The fact that one...
AMD Radeon Pro Driver Adrenalin Edition Overview
Recently AMD briefed us on a number of updates in what it is calling the AMD Radeon Pro Adrenalin update. One of the most interesting for us came at the end of the discussion where AMD highlighted virtualization. Specifically, that the company is putting its KVM host driver on GitHub and open sourcing the effort. AMD Radeon GIM Open Source...
Intel Optane 900p U.2 In Server Hot Swap
We use a new FreeBSD tool for simulating ZFS ZIL SLOG performance to test Intel Optane and NAND based SATA, SAS and PCIe NVMe SSD options
NVIDIA TITAN V Title
With the new NVIDIA Titan V, the company is extracting value from its deep learning silicon enhancements including the new Volta Tensor Cores
Tyan Transport HX GA88 B8021
At SC17, we saw the 1U GPU compute Tyan Transport HX GA88-B8021 based on AMD EPYC and that can handle multiple GPUs, networking and storage configurations
Intel Nervana Chip
This week Intel showed off the Nervana NNP and released more details about the ASIC plus HBM design it hopes will dominate neural network training
Arista 7050QX 32 Rack
Want to get started with high-speed SDN but do not want to pay $10K or more for a switch? This guide will show you how load Azure SONiC on a sub $1k switch
AMD EPYC 7351P And 7351
Microsoft Azure just announced Lv2 storage instances powered by AMD EPYC. Today's announcement is a big deal as the first major public cloud EPYC win