Today at SC20, AMD launched what it is boldly proclaiming as the world’s fastest HPC accelerator for scientific research with the AMD Instinct MI100. They may be correct as they claim this to be the first x86 server GPU to surpass the 10 teraflops (FP64) performance barrier. The company is combing the new GPUs with

This week, Marvell introduced the industry’s first native NVMe RAID 1 accelerator targeting virtualized, multi-tenant cloud, and enterprise data center environments. The first of Marvell’s partners to support this new accelerator is Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), in the HPE NS204i-p NVMe OS Boot Device. It is offered on select HPE ProLiant servers and HPE Apollo

Synology has a nice line of NAS devices that are great for SOHO and SMBs. The only drawback is that midrange NAS aren’t typically built with maximum performance and network speed in mind. Thanks to a new add-in card, now they don’t have to be. With the introduction of the Synology E10M20-T1 AIC, users can

We live in “Interesting Times” – with many states re-opening and many businesses coming out of hibernation, the question of workplace safety and risk mitigation has been the priority. The main go-to method for screening individuals coming into a workplace for a high temperature, which has a couple of approaches. The first and most common

This year at ISC Digital NVIDIA made a handful of announcements surrounding its A100 GPU. Along with this, the company announced a new AI platform for supercomputing, NVIDIA Mellanox UFM Cyber-AI Platform. And NVIDIA crushed yet another benchmark.

Today amongst its many announcements, Intel announced the new Intel Stratix 10 NX FPGA. The new FPGAs are AI-optimized, coming in with higher bandwidth and lower latency needed in AI acceleration. Intel states that its new FPGAs will be customizable, reconfigurable and scalable AI acceleration for compute-demanding applications such as natural language processing and fraud

QNAP has announced that its dual-port 16Gb/32Gb Fibre Channel (FC) expansion cards now support the latest QuTS hero NAS. With the QNAP FC card installed, a QuTS hero NAS can easily integrate into existing FC SAN environments, providing high-performance storage and backup at a lower cost compared to other SAN devices. QNAP stresses that a

With the Covid-19 pandemic still raging, many tech companies are finding ways to aid the shift to remote workers. NVIDIA announced that it is doing its part by expanding free access to its GPU virtualization software. NVIDIA’s free 90-day virtual GPU software went from 128 to 500 licenses.

At CES this year, NETGEAR made several announcements that made it under our radar. These announcements center around expanding the company’s Nighthawk systems with new models including a mesh WiFi 6 router. NETGEAR also announced a 4G LTE Orbi Tri-bad mesh WiFi Router.