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AMD Dives Deep on CDNA 4 Architecture and MI350 Accelerator at Hot Chips 2025

Ryan Smith — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:16:21 +0000

The second big machine learning accelerator talk of the afternoon belongs to AMD. The company’s chip architects are at this year’s show to tell the audience all about the CDNA 4 architecture, which is powering AMD’s new MI350 family o...

IBM’s Power11 Processor Architecture at Hot Chips 2025

Ryan Smith — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:31:00 +0000

Third up on today’s CPU track is IBM. Big Blue is at the conference to talk about its latest generation Power architecture chip, the Power11. IBM starts off by recapping Power. Why it exists, and what IBM’s goals are for the processor and a...

Pezy Computing’s PEZY-SC4s, A MIMD Many-Core Architecture at Hot Chips 2025

Ryan Smith — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:08:39 +0000

Second on today’s Hot Chip 2025 CPU track is Pezy Computing, the quirky Japanese CPU development firm who specializes in Multiple Instructions Multiple Data (MIMD) CPU designs. MIMD is an old concept in CPU design, but it’s not a CPU design...

Condor Computing’s Cuzco, a High-Perf RISC-V Design at Hot Chip 2025

Ryan Smith — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:32:49 +0000

Hot Chips, the semiconductor industry’s leading conferences on high-performance microprocessors and related integrated circuits is taking place this week. Living up to its name, the show offers a rather deep look at some of the latest and hottest chips...

NVIDIA Announces NVLink Fusion: Bringing NVLink to Third-Party CPUs and Accelerators

Ryan Smith — Mon, 19 May 2025 12:00:43 +0000

As part of today’s headline Computex keynote, NVIDIA announced a new member in their suite of NVLink interconnect technologies: NVLink Fusion. And this latest entry may be the most interesting yet, as NVIDIA is taking a big step towards opening up the ...

Why Servers Are Using So Much Power TDP Growth Over Time

Patrick Kennedy — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 18:26:35 +0000

Server CPU and GPU TDPs are rapidly increasing. We chart the increases and go into some of the other aspects driving power in data centers The post Why Servers Are Using So Much Power TDP Growth Over Time appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Zabbix 7.0 Proxy Load Balancing

Markku Leiniö — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:20:24 +0000

One of the new features in Zabbix 7.0 LTS is proxy load balancing. As the documentation says: Proxy load…

The post Zabbix 7.0 Proxy Load Balancing appeared first on Zabbix Blog.

CXL 3.1 Specification Aims for Big Topologies

Patrick Kennedy — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 22:51:00 +0000

The updated CXL 3.1 specification adds new features around the fabric, security, and memory devices to aid in building larger topologies The post CXL 3.1 Specification Aims for Big Topologies appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Microsoft Azure Eagle is a Paradigm Shifting Cloud Supercomputer

John Lee — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 21:56:25 +0000

At SC23, the Microsoft Azure Eagle supercomputer made its debut as a Top 3 system and it will shift access to enormous HPC and AI compute The post Microsoft Azure Eagle is a Paradigm Shifting Cloud Supercomputer appeared first on ServeTheHome.

A Compact ASRock DeskMini B660W VMware ESXi Build

Will Taillac — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 20:50:03 +0000

We build an emergency VMware ESXi server for a failed Lenovo system using a compact ASRock DeskMini B660W system The post A Compact ASRock DeskMini B660W VMware ESXi Build appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Falcon Northwest RAK Intel Xeon W-3400 Unleashed Edition

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 17:00:33 +0000

In our Falcon Northwest RAK review, we see how the company unleashed the Intel Xeon w9-3495X as a fast workstation today and a server tomorrow The post Falcon Northwest RAK Intel Xeon W-3400 Unleashed Edition appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Supermicro AS-2015HS-TNR Review A Server with AMD EPYC Bergamo

Patrick Kennedy — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 17:22:09 +0000

In our Supermicro AS-2015HS-TNR review, we see how this high-end single socket 24 DDR5 DIMM server handles 128 core AMD EPYC Bergamo The post Supermicro AS-2015HS-TNR Review A Server with AMD EPYC Bergamo appeared first on ServeTheHome.

New Inception Vulnerability Impacts ALL AMD Zen CPUs Yikes

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 16:51:10 +0000

The new Inception vulnerability impacts all AMD Zen CPUs including the latest AMD EPYC "Genoa" server processors The post New Inception Vulnerability Impacts ALL AMD Zen CPUs Yikes appeared first on ServeTheHome.

NVIDIA GTC 2023 Keynote Product Announcements

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:12:55 +0000

We are covering the NVIDIA GTC 2023 product launches and keynotes live. There will be a lot here given the popularity of AI topics The post NVIDIA GTC 2023 Keynote Product Announcements appeared first on ServeTheHome.

AMD Ryzen Server the ASRock Rack 1U4LW-B650/2L2T Review

Patrick Kennedy — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 17:28:47 +0000

ASRock Rack did it! In our ASRock Rack 1U4LW-B650/2L2T review we see why this AMD Ryzen server offers a huge gap over Intel's alternatives The post AMD Ryzen Server the ASRock Rack 1U4LW-B650/2L2T Review appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Cisco UCS M7 Servers with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids Launched

Cliff Robinson — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:00:49 +0000

The new Cisco UCS M7 generation with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors is out. We cover a few interesting launch tidbits. The post Cisco UCS M7 Servers with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids Launched appeared first on ServeTheHo...

New Lenovo ThinkSystem V3 Servers with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Launched

Cliff Robinson — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 02:29:05 +0000

New Lenovo ThinkSystem V3 servers with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable servers are out to harness the new features of Sapphire Rapids The post New Lenovo ThinkSystem V3 Servers with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Launched appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Next-gen Servers and Next-gen Features in Intel and Supermicro Servers

Patrick Kennedy — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:00:05 +0000

We did a super quick video showing all of the next-generation features on Supermicro X13 and Intel Sapphire Rapids servers The post Next-gen Servers and Next-gen Features in Intel and Supermicro Servers appeared first on ServeTheHome.

New Dell PowerEdge Servers with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids Launched

Cliff Robinson — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:30:50 +0000

Dell PowerEdge gets a 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable update and finally proper NVIDIA GPU platforms for AI and ML deployments The post New Dell PowerEdge Servers with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids Launched appeared first on ServeTheHome.

AIC Launches 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids Servers

Cliff Robinson — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 22:50:35 +0000

AIC has new 1U, 2U, and 2U 4-node platforms for the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, codenamed Sapphire Rapids The post AIC Launches 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids Servers appeared first on ServeTheHome.