Andy Patrizio is a freelance technology writer based in Orange County, California. He's written for a variety of publications, ranging from Tom's Guide to Wired to Dr. Dobbs Journal, and has been on staff at IT publications like InternetNews, PC Week and InformationWeek.
Tests by Meta and Iceotope find that new, sealed hard disk drives can be given precision liquid cooling that is more even than air cooling.
Intel's new server chips will have special functions locked away and available to turn on—for a fee.
AWS re:Invent: An Arm-based CPU for high-performance computing, a networking chip that doubles performance of its predecessor, and a TCP protocol replacement to speed up networks in the AWS cloud.
Seagate's Exos 2X18 features multiple drive heads that enable it to match SATA SSD speeds.
News includes upgrade of Dell’s APEX data storage services to provide more secure backup storage in a pay-per-use consumption model.
Deal involves AMD’s Instinct GPU accelerators, which are also used in Frontier, the fastest supercomputer in the world.
OEMs including HPE, Dell and Supermicro, along with cloud providers Microsoft and Oracle, showed up for the debut of AMD’s fourth-generation server processor.
You can now get a scaled-down and less expensive supercomputer that's based on the same architecture of the machine that broke the exaFLOP barrier.
Intel's CPU Max and GPU Max HPC chips use high bandwidth memory to solve bottlenecks and underpin supercomputers.
The chips were delayed nearly two years due to manufacturing challenges.
The tests are for their technology but the findings can be applied to any DPU.
HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers are designed with heavy emphasis on security and a hybrid-cloud workloads.
The Open Compute Project's Caliptra spec for Root of Trust could lead to better interoperability among cards used in data-center servers.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will feature tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs and software that are aimed at artificial-intelligence processing.
InspireSemi's Thunderbird chips are compatible with multiple programming languages, making it easier to compile existing HPC code for them.
Now you can start very small with a single 1U server and expand.
Google Cloud says its new C3 virtual machine instances deliver performance gains up to 20% over its previous generation C2 instances.
Intel is taking its FGPA lineup beyond the data center and extending its Agilex products to remote, edge computing, and embedded systems.
TrendForce Research predicts that oversupply of SSDs will lead to price cuts as much as 20% in Q4 2022.
SambaNova DataScale servers can perform both AI training and inference, which eliminates expensive data movement.
New Lenovo servers, storage, edge products, and liquid cooling options are each part of an announcement deluge.
Some apps need CPU clock speed while others need multiple cores, so base your server purchases accordingly.
Consultancies bring experience that enterprises may not have to develop their AI strategy and products.
The H100 Tensor Core GPU is in full production, and the first servers based on Nvidia's new Hopper architecture are due next month.
Seagate's Exos storage arrays can rebuild data from failed hard drives, leaving the rest of the drives in the array operational and reducing the frequency of swapping out bad drives.
Nvidia’s Grace processor will be one of the first chips to use Arm’s upcoming Neoverse V2 CPU cores.
IBM LinuxONE Emperor 4 server uses the System Z processor and boasts better performance vs. x86 and greater power efficiency.
Benchmarks aren't the same as real world use, but they can give a good idea of what’s to come, and Nvidia's Hopper GPU performance is impressive.
A lawsuit claiming license violations by Qualcomm and Nuvia could hobble production of processors based on Arm technology.
IBM offers a flat-fee subscription for single-core System i servers.
Microsoft adjusts Windows Server fees after threats of lawsuits by European cloud service providers.
New vSphere paired with Nvidia DPUs will speed up data center performance.
Deal with Brookfield Asset Management brings more chip production to the US and frees up more Intel cash.
If Qualcomm is working on a server processor, it likely will be for accelerators such as smartNICs.
Verge-OS virtualization software can now pool and apportion GPU capacity to help create virtual data centers.
Efficiencies and better hardware prompt Azure to extend server-refresh cycles from four years to six.
Compute Express Link can share compute and memory among components and devices, potentially leading to more efficient use of data-center resources.
100Gb+ will be standard for high-performance computing, AI, and cloud providers.
Semtech has been working on IoT technology, and buying Sierra will accelerate that effort.
The small form factor HPE Edgeline EL8000 is designed for AI tasks such as computer vision and natural-language processing.
Enterprise SSD products are separating themselves from their consumer counterparts by getting faster, smarter and denser.
Optane persistent memory technology was never adopted beyond Intel.
PowerStore performance gains include faster Intel processors, greater scalability, and tools to simplify NVMe capacity expansion.
A buildup of inventory has led to an oversupply of NAND flash, which translates to price drops for solid-state drives (SSD).
Liquid cooling, high efficiency equipment, and AI-enabled analytics are among the technologies driving more sustainable data-center operations.
Semiconductor companies plan to raise prices on processors and peripheral chip products in the coming months, and the price hikes will reportedly stretch into next year.
New Power10 servers also include pay-as-you-go consumption options.
The goal is to make it easier to program in quantum computing, which is very different from standard computing.
HPE becomes the first major server vendor to ship servers with the Arm-based processor.
The old SATA interface may be much slower than PCIe but it is still useful in many use cases.
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