AMD’s 6th Gen EPYC server CPU family, codenamed Venice, brings Zen 6 and Zen 6c cores to a lineup built to take on every corner of the server market. AMD is pushing core counts and clock speeds higher and giving those cores considerably more bandwidth to work with, through a larger memory subsystem and the
The Dell PowerEdge R9825 is the first server built on AMD’s 6th Gen EPYC to reach our lab, and it is the dual-socket flagship of Dell’s 18th generation PowerEdge line. Two EPYC 9996 processors give it 512 Zen 6c cores and 1,024 threads, 32 DDR5 slots take it to 8TB of memory, and the front
For most of its time in the data center, NVIDIA treated the CPU as little more than the chip that fed the GPU. Grace, its first server processor, fit that mold. It used Arm’s off-the-shelf Neoverse V2 cores and shipped mostly as the CPU half of the Grace Hopper and Grace Blackwell superchips. Those superchips
The AMD Instinct MI350P is AMD’s first new PCIe Instinct GPU in four years, following the MI210 in 2022. It brings the company’s CDNA 4 architecture to a conventional add-in card, with up to 4.6 PFLOPS of MXFP4 performance, 144GB of HBM3E, and 4TB/s of memory bandwidth. All of that fits into a dual-slot, 600W
The biggest AI infrastructure decision many enterprises make in the next year won’t be a GPU investment; it will be a database upgrade. Oracle AI Database 26ai is the long-term support release Oracle is steering its 19c installed base toward. 26ai puts vector search in the same engine that holds transactions. When the vector index
Kimi Antonelli won the United States Grand Prix from pole on a one-stop, beating Charles Leclerc by 13.078 seconds with Max Verstappen third; the pit wall held against Verstappen’s two-stop undercut. Ferrari had owned the timing sheets until then, Leclerc fastest in Friday’s second practice and Lewis Hamilton in Saturday’s final session, so the Mercedes
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition is the card NVIDIA built for the servers most enterprises already own. It is a single-slot, passively cooled, 165W board with 32GB of GDDR7 and the full Blackwell feature set: fifth-generation Tensor Cores with FP4, fourth-generation RT cores, three encoders and three decoders, and Multi-Instance GPU support
When we went deep on Dell PowerStore Gen 3 earlier this year, the story was hardware, and there was plenty of it. Dell rebuilt the platform from the chassis up: 40 E3.S NVMe bays in 3U with no slots burned on cache, a 200GbE RDMA midplane between controllers that is decoupled from CPU generations, Software-Defined
Deskside AI systems built on NVIDIA’s GB10 have one job, and they do it well: put 128GB of unified memory and a petaflop of compute on a desk close enough to the person using it that iteration is instant. What they don’t have is a connection to the storage an organization already runs. Every DGX
The Solidigm D5-P5430 is the mainstream tier of Solidigm’s QLC data center line. It’s the drive that sits below the capacity-maximizing D5-P5336 and carries a smaller indirection unit for the mixed and small-block write workloads a 16KB-IU drive handles poorly. We reviewed the 15.36TB P5430 at launch in 2023, when the story was the jump
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