Xeon
At Intel's Vision 2024 event, which is being held in Phoenix, AZ, has seen several key announcements. On the datacenter CPU front, Intel is using the show to unveil their newest branding for their venerable family of Xeon processors. Beginning with this year's sixth generation of processors, Intel is "evolving" the Xeon brand by retiring the "Xeon Scalable" branding in favor of Intel's new and simplified "Xeon 6" brand. The Xeon 6 family is set to launch later this year with two primary variants: an all-performance (P) core chip codenamed Granite Rapids, and an all-efficiency (E) core chip codenamed Sierra Forest. Both of these chips will be sold under the Xeon 6 brand and sit on top of the same motherboard platform, with the Xeon...
Server Update April 2013: Positioning the HP Moonshot 1500
With HP launching the "Moonshot" server class and Intel's IDF at Beijing, we felt it was interesting to look a bit closer at the newest developments in the server...
26 by Johan De Gelas on 4/11/2013
Calxeda's ARM server tested
ARM based servers hold the promise of extremely low power and excellent performance per Watt ratios. It's possible to place an incredible amount of servers into a single rack—there...
102 by Johan De Gelas on 3/12/2013
Westmere-EP to Sandy Bridge-EP: The Scientist Potential Upgrade
Earlier this year I wrote a review of a dual processor Sandy Bridge-EP system from the point of view of the non-CS trained coder in a research group, and...
44 by Ian Cutress on 3/4/2013
The new Opteron 6300: Finally Tested!
AMD unveiled their Opteron 6300 series server processors, code name Abu Dhabi, back in November 2012. At that time, no review samples were available. The numbers that AMD presented...
55 by Johan De Gelas on 2/20/2013
Intel Launches “Centerton” Atom S1200 Family, First Atom For Servers
In recent months much has been made over the potential incursion of ARM into Intel’s tightly held server markets, and for good reason. ARM’s general focus on SoCs for...
35 by Ryan Smith on 12/11/2012
The Xeon Phi at work at TACC
The Xeon Phi family of co-processors was announced in June, but Intel finally disclosed additional details about the first shipping implementation of Larrabee. In this short article we'll go...
47 by Johan De Gelas on 11/14/2012
LRDIMMs, RDIMMs, and Supermicro's Latest Twin
Most of the servers in the datacenter, especially the ones running virtualization, database, and some HPC applications, are more memory limited than anything else. There are several server memory...
26 by Johan De Gelas on 8/3/2012
Intel Announces Xeon Phi Family of Co-Processors – MIC Goes Retail
As conference season is in full swing, this week’s big technical conference is the 2012 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) taking place over in Hamburg, Germany. ISC is one of...
54 by Ryan Smith on 6/19/2012HP Updates Workstations with Ivy Bridge
In a move sure to come as a surprise to approximately no one, HP is updating several members of their workstation lineup with new Ivy Bridge-based processors, including Ivy...
3 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/4/2012
HP Z420 Workstation Review: Competition Heats Up
Recently we had a chance to review Dell's Precision T3600, and we found it impressive. A company that seemed content to be an also-ran in the enterprise desktop space...
35 by Dustin Sklavos on 5/21/2012
Boston Releases Intel Xeon E5-2600 Based Setups
Quattro 1264-T Intel's Xeon E5-2600 lineup was released last Tuesday and as expected, several manufacturers have released products based on these processors. Today we are looking at Boston's offerings, which...
8 by Kristian Vättö on 3/12/2012
Supermicro Launches 100+ Server Solutions Based on the Xeon E5 Family
The Sandy Bridge based Xeon E5-2600 processors were launched by Intel yesterday, and Supermicro wasn't far behind in launching a host of solutions supporting / based on these processors...
33 by Ganesh T S on 3/7/2012
The Xeon E5-2600: Dual Sandy Bridge for Servers
Eight improved cores, 16 threads, integrated 40 lane PCIe 3.0: the new socket 2011 Xeon E5-2660 manages to package it all in a very modest power envelope of 95W...
81 by Johan De Gelas on 3/6/2012
Facebook's "Open Compute" Server tested
Facebook had 22 Million active users in the middle of 2007; fast forward to 2011 and the site now has 800 Million active users, with 400 million of them...
68 by Johan De Gelas on 11/3/2011
iBuyPower Professional Series: Reversal of Fortune
When it comes to buying a pre-built desktop for the average consumer or gamer, about the only thing the big box manufacturers really have going for them is price...
21 by Dustin Sklavos on 10/21/2011
Rendering and HPC Benchmark Session Using Our Best Servers
Each time we publish a new server platform review, several of our readers inquire about HPC and rendering benchmarks. We're always willing to accommodate reasonable requests, so we're going...
52 by Johan De Gelas on 9/30/2011
HP Z210 SFF Workstation: Serious Power in Cramped Quarters
We're taking our second excursion into enterprise-class desktop territory with the kind of machine that should be of interest both to IT management and enthusiasts alike: HP's Z210 SFF...
26 by Dustin Sklavos on 8/29/2011
Westmere-EX: Intel's Flagship Benchmarked
A month ago, Intel introduced its newest quad Xeon E7 series, the successor of the Xeon 7500. We gave you an overview of the Xeon's E7 lineup, but we...
62 by Johan De Gelas on 5/19/2011
Dell Precision T1600: Workstation Class
We've spent a lot of time dissecting boutique gaming desktops, but there's another class of hardware that we only rarely get to discuss. Today that changes with the first...
29 by Dustin Sklavos on 5/2/2011
Westmere-EX: Intel Improves their Xeon Flagship
Yesterday, Intel announced that their flagship server processor, the Xeon Nehalem-EX, is being succeeded by the Xeon Westmere-EX, a process-shrinking " tick" in Intel's terminology. By shrinking Intel's largest...
33 by Johan De Gelas on 4/6/2011
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