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Article about vertical wall-mounting of servers

An interesting solution for home laboratories, small test rooms or maintenance-free points where 1-2-3 pieces of equipment are placed, and every square centimeter is worth its weight in gold I often came up with the idea: why not place servers vertically, because if you do not have a special server rack, but have a 1U-4U machine, and even a full length of 655 mm, then this bandura will take up the entire room, the entire table or rack. No, I'm not saying that server cabinets are outdated and ...
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What factors should be used to choose the server processor?

Why when choosing a processor, do not pay attention to the price per core or the price per Watt, but rather use the cost of a Megahertz with HT disabled and using Turbo Boost? Here's how it used to be good: for servers, there was a single Pentium Pro processor, which you didn't need to choose. With the advent of multi-core processors, it became clear that the more computing blocks, the better, but only until marketers stepped in and pided one CPU into ten sockets with ten cache options and ...
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Guide for migration from Intel Xeon to AMD EPYC: debunking myths, avoiding pitfalls

Ordinary system administrators and large IT-directors, when it comes to AMD, sometimes ask completely childish questions, and we answer them. Existing stack compatibility, TCO reduction, performance and support issues. Consider a typical situation: in your company, it’s time to expand your data center, or replace outdated equipment, and your supplier suggests that you consider a server on an AMD EPYC (ROME) processor. It does not matter whether you have already made a decision or are just ...
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What are the chances of AMD in the server market? Part II

... of analytical reviews on the server AMD strategy, its processors, ... technologies and overall server “ecosystem”. To successfully return to ... the ideologies of modular processors using chiplets (MCM, SoC) and ... historically trained the market to buy higher-end processors, limiting ... , which forces customers to buy more expensive versions of chips ... time in 4 generations of server platforms planned significant changes: ... Datacenter*. There are exceptions on the positive side: for example, VMware ...
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What are the chances of AMD in the server market? Expert opinion and Analytics

Why is AMD pinning its hopes on the second generation of processors, announced on August 7, 2019, and are these hopes destined to come true? We will take a short digression into the history, and see why it happened with Opteron-s, and how the server market has changed during the absence of AMD on it. This article is the first in a series of analytical reviews devoted to AMD's server strategy, its processors, technologies, and the overall server ecosystem» "EPYC" History Since the ...
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Synology Virtual Machine Manager hypervisor - first step into converged architectures

Synology has released a package that turns storage into a host for virtual machines with easy cluster setup, virtual machine snapshot support, and setup in just a few clicks. You can even run the DSM operating system itself in a virtual environment to create multitenant services within your organization. Synology , already a well-known system manufacturer to our readers data storage class SmB/SOHO, has been making steps towards the Enterprise segment for quite some time. In 2017, high- ...
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Neuromorphic future: an attempt to put the brain in the server

In this article, we will talk about alternatives to following Moore's law, and which technologies can be used in data centers of the future. Until today, processor manufacturers have been forced to follow Moore's law in order to produce a new generation of chips with higher performance and lower power consumption. In our time, the picture of the world has changed. Research around the world suggests a wide variety of architectures that are more productive and consume less energy. In this ...
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Freebies will not be! VMware waives the license for the socket

... - there's still time to buy EPYC. I hope you had ... Machine Driver, Unlimited 1890 $ 3780 $ VMWare vSphere Standard with standard support ... 1847 $ - before 3694 $ - after 3694 $ VMWare vSphere Standard with additional support ... that the same people who buy home Ryzen and see how ... are left out. when you buy them, you pay a license ... money, and VMware was one of the few who used a software ... compare it with Microsoft Windows Server Datacenter Edition, Oracle programs or specialized ...
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Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 AI accelerators for data centers

Today, Qualcomm announced that they are entering the AI accelerator market with the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 family of chips. Designed from the ground up for the artificial intelligence market, this chip should be released as early as 2020. At the same time, Qualcomm emphasizes that the new chip will be compatible with existing software for artificial intelligence applications. The new market, which did not exist at the beginning of this decade, has become the center around which all modern ...