Lenovo ThinkSystem SR655
Lenovo Debuts Single-Socket Servers with AMD Epyc Rome 7nm CPUs
No summer doldrums here. In an intense week for leading chip and server companies, Lenovo today launched two new single-socket servers, the ThinkSystem SR635 and SR655, built with AMD’s ...Full Article
Intel Adds 56-core Socketed Cooper Lake
Intel today announced that its forthcoming Cooper Lake Xeon Scalable processors, based on Intel’s 14nm++ process, will come with up to 56-cores in a socketed form factor, leveraging the ...Full Article
Intel Omni-Path Interconnect: One and Done
Intel Corp.’s plans to make a big splash in the network fabric market for linking HPC, AI and other high performance workloads has apparently belly-flopped. The chip maker confirmed to ...Full Article
Intel Charges Spark Workloads with Optane Persistent Memory
Intel didn’t wow chip lovers earlier this year with the launch of its 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors “Cascade Lake” processors, which are based on the same 14nm ...Full Article
NVMe over Fabric Advances
Efforts to move NVM Express technology over fabrics into enterprise datacenters advanced this week with progress toward a new industry specification entering its final review. NVM Express Inc. announced ...Full Article
Nvidia Expands DGX-Ready AI Program to 19 Countries
Nvidia’s DGX-Ready Data Center Program, announced in January and designed to provide colo and public cloud-like options to access the company’s GPU-powered servers for AI workloads, has expanded the ...Full Article
Nvidia, Google Tie in Second MLPerf Training ‘At-Scale’ Round
Results for the second round of the AI benchmarking suite known as MLPerf were published today with Google Cloud and Nvidia each picking up three wins in the at-scale ...Full Article
Mellanox Partners with Storage Startups
As GPU leader Nvidia closes its $6.9 billion acquisition of Mellanox Technologies announced earlier this year, the HPC network interconnect specialist’s venture arm remains active, investing in two storage startups. ...Full Article
Applied Materials Embedding New Memory Technologies in Chips
Applied Materials, the $17 billion Santa Clara-based materials engineering company for the semiconductor industry, today announced manufacturing systems enabling new memory technologies to be deposited “with atomic-level precision” within ...Full Article
Intel Partners with Baidu on Neural Network Training Chip
A pillar of Intel’s emerging AI product portfolio, its upcoming Nervana Neural Network Processor for training (NNP-T), will be a collaborative development effort joining Intel with Baidu, the Beijing-based ...Full Article
