Lenovo ThinkSystem SR655
Lenovo Debuts Single-Socket Servers with AMD Epyc Rome 7nm CPUs
No summer doldrums here. In an intense week for leading chip and server companies, Lenovo today launched two new single-socket servers, the ThinkSystem SR635 and SR655, built with AMD’s ...Full Article
Intel Adds 56-core Socketed Cooper Lake
Intel today announced that its forthcoming Cooper Lake Xeon Scalable processors, based on Intel’s 14nm++ process, will come with up to 56-cores in a socketed form factor, leveraging the ...Full Article
Xilinx vs. Intel: FPGA Market Leaders Launch Server Accelerator Cards
The two FPGA market leaders, Intel and Xilinx, both announced new accelerator cards this week designed to handle specialized, compute-intensive workloads and unburden already overworked CPUs in data center ...Full Article
Kubernetes Developer Mesosphere Rebrands as D2iQ
Kubernetes, the de facto standard cluster orchestrator, continues to transform an expanding ecosystem of enterprise cloud vendors to the point where some are changing their identity to reflect the ...Full Article
Intel Omni-Path Interconnect: One and Done
Intel Corp.’s plans to make a big splash in the network fabric market for linking HPC, AI and other high performance workloads has apparently belly-flopped. The chip maker confirmed to ...Full Article
Xilinx–SolarFlare Deal Closes, Combines FPGAs, High Performance Networks
In a year of major M&A activity in the high performance technology sector, Xilinx announced today the closing of its acquisition of low latency network provider SolarFlare, whose speedy ...Full Article
Google’s ‘Stadia’ Is a Massive Data Windfall. Who Will Benefit?
For the first time, Google is positioning itself as a competitor to the likes of PlayStation and Xbox with its new offering, Stadia, a cloud-based gaming service – with ...Full Article
Red Hat Usage Data: IBM AI Gold Mine?
Data may have been a major – and under-appreciated – factor compelling Big Blue to plunk down $34 billion for Red Hat, a deal (the third largest in tech ...Full Article
Intel Charges Spark Workloads with Optane Persistent Memory
Intel didn’t wow chip lovers earlier this year with the launch of its 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors “Cascade Lake” processors, which are based on the same 14nm ...Full Article
NVMe over Fabric Advances
Efforts to move NVM Express technology over fabrics into enterprise datacenters advanced this week with progress toward a new industry specification entering its final review. NVM Express Inc. announced ...Full Article
