We got to see the ASRock Rack 3U16N in-person at Computex 2016. The 3U server has 16x Xeon D nodes in a single chassis with a unique twist: optional Mellanox 50GbE multi-host adapters for streamlined connectivity
We stopped by the Supermicro booth at Computex 2016 and saw a number of new platforms for the first time including a few that we were not expecting
ASRock Rack is one of the first manufacturers we have seen to release a new Skylake-H based platform. The ASRock Rack C236WSI4 is a compact platform that takes advantage of the Intel Xeon E3-1500 V5 family providing a very interesting building block. The Intel Xeon E3-1500 V5 series was just launched to support VDI and video transcoding applications.
ASRock Rack C236WSI4 Key Specs
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The Intel Xeon E3-1500 V5 series processors are aimed at video transcoding workloads as well as virtual desktop and application workloads with GVT-g support
We take a look at the Gigabyte R120-T30 1U server, the first production Cavium ThunderX system we have in the data center lab
Our review of the QCT QuantaMesh T3048-LY9 we utilize in the STH data center lab. We have over 8 months of experience with the switch at this point
We provide a view on the impact of Google Tensorflow Processing Unit (TPU) ASIC being announced to the machine learning industry
We have part II of our Gigabyte MX11-PC0 review with performance figures and a final rating. This is an excellent mITX Xeon E3 platform with NVMe support
NVIDIA launched a new version of its GRID software and a new GPU. The NVIDIA Tesla M10 is very similar to the NVIDIA GRID M40 we have been using in the STH lab, just with twice the memory per GPU.
We benchmark the SanDisk Ultra 128GB microSDXC and the Samsung EVO 128GB microSDXC cards to find out which $40 card is faster for our photography