Category: Rackmount Servers

With applications and workloads becoming increasingly complex, it is vital for any new hardware platform to keep up with continually increasing performance demands. Launching today, the new Intel© Xeon© Processor Scalable Family does just that with several key improvements in architecture and performance. The platform benefits greatly from a 1.5x increase in memory bandwidth and support…

For many years, AMD has been dormant; its most recent generation of processors (Opteron) launching over five years ago. In the intervening years, the competition has steadily moved forward, removing the AMD Opteron processor from consideration for new server deployments. With the launch of the EPYC processor series, this has all changed. Not only does…

With ARM processors becoming so prevalent in our cell phones, it’s easy to forget they can excel in HPC too. The Acorn RISC Machine (later known as “Advanced RISC Machine” or ARM) architecture’s simplified design results in high density, exceptional power efficiency, and minimized heat. While these characteristics are ideal for low-power mobile devices, they…

You may recall our recent blog post introducing the NVIDIA TITAN X™ GPU, which made desktop supercomputing a much more affordable proposition. Well, NVIDIA has just raised the bar again with the GTX 1080 Ti. The GTX 1080 Ti looks to be a compelling alternative to the Titan X. It’s much more affordable, and in many aspects,…

Today’s high performance computing applications are becoming as resource-intensive and complex as they are diverse. Across disciplines such as Earth Sciences, Financial Services, Physics, and Machine Learning, demands for CPU power and memory bandwidth have increased exponentially. Within this set of workloads a common component is the need for highly parallel processing to maximize performance. However,…