Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/the-network-switch-that-is-still-going-hp/
The original switches we used in our 2013 colocation project still function. They needed a quick tribute post before retirement
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/synology-lost-the-plot-with-hard-drive-locking-move/
According to reports, Synology plans to restrict features to its own branded hard drives with the new 2025 Plus models. This is bad
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/gigabyte-gigapod-and-gb300-nvl72-compute-blades-at-nvidia-gtc-2025/
We saw the Gigabyte GIGAPOD for HGX platforms and NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 compute blades at its NVIDIA GTC 2025 booth
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/the-nivida-hgx-b300-nvl16-is-massively-different/
We look at why the NVIDIA HGX B300 NVL16 is massively different from the previous generations of HGX designs and even the HGX B200
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/silver-lake-buys-majority-stake-in-altera-from-intel/
Silver Lake is buying a majority stake in Altera from Intel and announced that Raghib Hussain will be taking over as the Altera CEO in May
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/mikrotik-rds2216-02xg-4s4xs-2xq-review-better-switchnasserver-catch-marvell-arm-annapurna-labs/
In our MikroTik RDS2216-02XG-4S+4XS-2XQ we see just how close MikroTik ROSE came to making the ultimate switch, NAS, server, and VPN box
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/pegatron-nvidia-gb300-nvl72-and-more-at-nvidia-gtc-2025/
At NVIDIA GTC 2025, we saw the Pegatron NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 rack along with a number of lower-density PCIe and SXM GPU systems
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/the-ibm-z17-mainframe-brings-ai-with-telum-ii-and-spyre/
The IBM z17 mainframe brings new AI capabilities with the Telum II processor and its built-in AI accelerator and the PCIe-based Spyre AI cards
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/asus-ai-pod-nvidia-gb300-nvl72-at-nvidia-gtc-2025/
We saw the ASUS AI Pod, a NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 rack at NVIDIA GTC along with new HGX B200 and HGX B300 systems at NVIDIA GTC 2025
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/running-the-deepseek-r1-671b-model-at-fp16-fidelity-alongside-amd-virtualized-workloads/
We show you how you can run the 1.27TB Deepseek-R1 671B model at FP16, and even look at running it alongside VMs in your clusters
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/dell-precision-3280-compact-review-a-neat-compact-intel-nvidia-workstation/
In our Dell Precision 3280 Compact review, we see how we got 128GB of memory, a 20GB NVIDIA GPU, RAID 0 SSDs, and 24 cores into a small PC
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/supermicro-sys-112c-tn-review-1p-intel-xeon-6-1u-server/
In our Supermicro SYS-112C-TN review, we see how this single-socket Intel Xeon 6 server performs and how it is designed differently
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/sth-q1-2025-letter-from-the-editor-re-calibration-and-expansion/
In the STH Q1 2025 Letter from the Editor, we go behind-the-scenes at STH and talk about what we have been working on
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/the-key-feature-for-server-cpus-amd-still-two-threads-per-core/
We take a look at SMT in 2025 and why the two threads per core regime is still dominant in the enterprise, perhaps becoming moreso
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/mapping-licensing-for-virtualization-is-cool-now-amd-vmware-microsoft-windows-citrix-red-hat/
For a long time, we have been focusing a lot on the hardware costs of new processors but missing the virtualization license costs. Part of that is simply due to the number of virtualization licenses and support models. Recently, we purchased the most popular barebones server and the most popular server processor on Newegg to […]
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/micron-socamm-memory-powers-next-gen-nvidia-grace-gb300-servers/
This is the new Micron SOCAMM with LPDDR5X memory that will power next-generation NVIDIA Grace GB300 servers
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/the-nvidia-dgx-spark-is-a-tiny-128gb-ai-mini-pc-made-for-scale-out-clustering-arm/
The NVIDIA DGX Spark supports 200GbE RDMA clustering of the GB10 mini systems with 128GB of LPDDR5X, 20 Arm cores, and a Blackwell GPU
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/this-is-the-asus-ascent-gx10-a-nvidia-gb10-mini-pc-with-128gb-of-memory-and-200gbe/
vThis is the ASUS Ascent GX10, a NVIDIA GB10 mini PC with 200GbE RDMA and 10GbE networking, 128GB of LPDDR5x, an Arm CPU, and a Blackwell GPU
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/softbank-to-acquire-ampere-arm/
Softbank announced that it plans to acquire Ampere Computing in the second half of 2025 for $6.5 billion in cash
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/acemagic-f3a-an-amd-ryzen-ai-9-hx-370-mini-pc-with-up-to-128gb-of-ram/
In our Acemagic F3A review, we expand the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 platform with 128GB of ram to make a cool little 70b parameter AI agent PC
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