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in 2019, Intel announced its Cascade Lake family of enterprise processors, and sitting at the top of the stack was the Cascade Lake-AP family: a quartet of parts that changed Intel’s paradigm for high-end processors. This hardware used two of Intel’s large 28-core silicon dies in the same package, providing a weakly linked dual-processor system in a single package, built to look like a single processor up to 56 cores and 12 memory channels with up to a 400W TDP. Despite not providing pricing, Intel is keen to promote the Xeon 9200 as its extreme performance platform up against AMD’s 64-core EPYC "Rome" offering. We saw a number of Xeon 9200 systems on display at the Supercomputing 2019 show, and the discussions we had...
Taking Immersion in Gaming One Step Further: Full PC Immersion with the CoolBitts ICEbox
One of the news items that went under the radar at Supercomputing was from CoolBitts. The company focuses on fully immersed systems whereby the CPU, GPU, and all the...
31 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/30/2019
An Interview with AMD’s CTO Mark Papermaster: ‘There’s More Room At The Top’
On the back of a very busy 2019, AMD is gaining market share and is now a performance leader in a lot of CPU segments. The company has executed...
68 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/30/2019
Arm Server CPUs: You Can Now Buy Ampere’s eMAG in a Workstation
One of the critical elements to all these new server-class Arm processors is availability. We are not yet at the point where these chips are freely sold on the...
19 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/6/2019
Preferred Networks: A 500 W Custom PCIe Card using 3000 mm2 Silicon
Pushing the physical limits of hardware is always a fun story, but I was positively blown away when I saw this poster at Supercomputing. Preferred Networks, seemingly a spin-out...
17 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/6/2019
AIC to Offer Dual Socket 1U with Four 300W FPGAs
Aside from specific events relating to Xilinx or Altera/Intel, we don’t cover much FPGA news. FPGAs by their very nature are very focused pieces of hardware, and it’s usually...
1 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/5/2019
A Success on Arm for HPC: We Found a Fujitsu A64FX Wafer
When speaking about Arm in the enterprise space, the main angle for discussion is on the CPU side. Having a high-performance SoC at the heart of the server has...
23 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/5/2019
Supermicro Shows Off Intel Nervana NNP-T Servers: 8-Way PCIe and OAM
One of the key elements to deep learning and training is lots of very dense compute, as well as the dense servers to go through the computation. Intel’s Nervana...
15 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/4/2019
Two Phase Immersion Liquid Cooling at Supercomputing 2019
It would now appear we are saturated with two phase immersion liquid cooling (2PILC) – pun intended. One common element from the annual Supercomputing trade show, as well as...
35 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/29/2019
Spotted at Supercomputing 2019: A 256 GB Gen-Z Memory Module
As a millennial, everything in the media that ‘Gen Z’ does often gets lumped into the millennial category. Thankfully there’s another type of Gen-Z in the world: the cache...
11 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/29/2019
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