Xeon
Alongside today’s disclosure of the Rialto Bridge accelerator, Intel is also using this week’s ISC event to deliver a brief update on Sapphire Rapids, the company’s next-generation Xeon CPU which is shipping later this year. While Intel has been beating the drum for their forthcoming, 4th Generation Xeon Scalable chip for a while, we have yet to hear anything of significance about its expected performance – particularly in the HPC space. So ahead of its formal launch a bit later this year, Intel is finally talking a bit about the expected performance of the HBM-equipped version of the chip, which is aimed in particular at the HPC/supercomputing crowd. Intel’s first tiled Xeon processor, Sapphire Rapids is also Intel’s first CPU to offer optional on-chip HBM...
Compulab Rolls-Out Passively-Cooled Airtop Systems
Compulab, a maker of miniature and small form-factor computers, is introducing its first desktop system called Airtop today. The new computer can be equipped with rather high-performance components, but...
35 by Anton Shilov on 1/14/2016
CES 2016: The Race to Skylake Xeon Motherboards at GIGABYTE
I have been relatively tight lipped on the swathe of Xeon focused motherboards recently making headlines, for good reason. Back at the launch of Intel’s latest generation of processors...
22 by Ian Cutress on 1/13/2016
ASUS and ASRock Prep Gaming Motherboards for Intel Xeon E3 v5 Processors
ASUS and ASRock, two major makers of computer motherboards, are rolling out their platforms for Intel Xeon CPUs designed for gamers. While typically Xeon chips are more expensive than...
50 by Anton Shilov on 12/29/2015
Workstation Love at SuperComputing 15
One of the interesting angles at Supercomputing 15 was workstations. In a show where high performance computing is paramount, most situations involve an offload of software onto a small...
36 by Ian Cutress on 12/14/2015
Broadwell E3 v4 Xeons: Cirrascale at SuperComputing 15
The hubbub about the Broadwell Xeon family was relatively interesting. We managed to get hold of the models that came in a socketed form for testing, the E3-1285 v4...
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More Greenlow Motherboards Announced: ASRock Rack’s C230 Series
On the back of Intel’s muted launch for the Xeon E3-1200 v5 platform, the server based business units from normal motherboards consumer facing companies are announcing their C230 series...
17 by Ian Cutress on 10/20/2015
Skylake Xeon Motherboards: GIGABYTE’s C230 Series Announced
With the new E3-1200 v5 processors announced today we also get a new series of workstation/server motherboards under the C230 series. Aside from standard workstation and Xeon markets that...
13 by Ian Cutress on 10/19/2015
Intel Launches ‘Greenlow’: C236 Chipset and Skylake E3-1200 v5 Xeons
One of the recent notable aspects about the Xeon E3 family was the lack of a significant presence with Intel’s Broadwell architecture. A handful of them were released under...
31 by Ian Cutress on 10/19/2015
The Intel Broadwell Xeon E3 v4 Review: 95W, 65W and 35W with eDRAM
Our Broadwell coverage on the desktop has included reviews of the two consumer processors and a breakdown of IPC gains from generation to generation. One issue surrounding Broadwell on...
72 by Ian Cutress on 8/26/2015
Lenovo Launches New P50 And P70 Mobile Workstations With First Mobile Xeon Chips
Today at the SIGGRAPH 2015 Conference and Exhibition, Lenovo unveiled some new mobile workstations. The new ThinkPad P series are aimed at high-end professionals who need a lot of...
50 by Brett Howse on 8/10/2015
Intel Quietly Launches Mobile Xeons: Skylake Based E3-1500M v5
In a rather understated blog post, Intel made an interesting move at the end of last week by announcing that for the first time the Xeon platform is heading...
23 by Ian Cutress on 8/10/2015
Synology Launches RC18015xs+ / RXD1215sas High-Availability Cluster Solution
Synology is no stranger to high-availability (HA) systems. Synology High Availability is touted as one of the features that differentiate Synology's NAS units from other vendors' for small business...
4 by Ganesh T S on 6/11/2015
Xeon E3-1200 V4 launch: only with GPU integrated
Intel's server CPU portfolio just got more diversified and complex with the launch of the Intel Xeon E3-1200 V4 at Computex 2015. It is basically the same chip...
55 by Johan De Gelas on 6/3/2015
Intel to Acquire FPGA-Specialist Altera for $16.7 Billion
Today Intel has announced that they are buying Altera in an all-cash deal of $16.7 billion. The deal, having been rumored for a while now, will see Intel pick...
20 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2015
GIGABYTE Server Launches the MW70-3S0, Targeting 3x PCIe 3.0 x16 and LSI 3008
If you’ve been following motherboard coverage over the past few years, you can’t help but notice that all the major consumer players also have their own server based business...
11 by Ian Cutress on 5/20/2015
The Intel Xeon E7-8800 v3 Review: The POWER8 Killer?
The story behind the high-end Xeon has been the same for the past 5 years: Intel's most expensive beats the Oracle alternative in every way you can look at...
146 by Johan De Gelas on 5/8/2015
X-Gene 1, Atom C2000 and Xeon E3: Exploring the Scale-Out Server World
Most of our attention with servers has gone to the midrange (Xeon E5, Opteron 6300) and high-end (Xeon E7) platforms. But the low-end and micro server market is where...
47 by Johan De Gelas on 3/9/2015
Intel Haswell-EP Xeon 14 Core Review: E5-2695 V3 and E5-2697 V3
Moving up the Xeon product stack, the larger and more complicated the die, the lower the yield. Intel sells its 14-18 core Xeons from a top end design that...
44 by Ian Cutress on 11/20/2014
Intel Haswell-EP Xeon 12 Core Review: E5-2650L V3 and E5-2690 V3
As part of our Haswell-EP coverage, the next two processors on our test beds are both 12 core variants. The E5-2650L V3 is a surprising monster, giving 12 Haswell...
52 by Ian Cutress on 11/6/2014
Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 and E5-2650 v3 Review: Haswell-EP with 10 Cores
During September we managed to get hold of some Haswell-EP samples for a quick run through our testing suite. The Xeon E5 v3 range extends beyond that of the...
27 by Ian Cutress on 10/13/2014
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