QNAP Systems has announced the immediate availability of the TVS-h1288X and TVS-h1688X enterprise QuTS hero NAS, both of which are highlighted by their Intel Xeon W-1250 processor (six-core 3.3 GHz, burst up to 4.7 GHz) and up to 128 GB DDR4 ECC memory. Built for bandwidth-heavy storage use cases as well as dynamic creative workflows
Dell Technologies is introducing the EXF900, a new appliance to the Dell EMC ECS EX-Series lineup. Key features of this new all-flash appliance include high performance and flexible deployment. The company indicates that the object storage market is primed for a revolution based on object storage advantages, including scalability, flexibility, API-driven cloud-native architectures, and more. This
Today during KubeCon, KIOXIA announced that its popular storage software, KumoScale, has added new features to support containers and applications managed by the Kubernetes framework. The features will bring NVMe-oF performance to Kubernetes, for quite the performance bump. KIOXIA will be demonstrating the new features of KumoScale at the virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
Today at SC20 NVIDIA announced that its popular A100 GPU will see a doubling of high-bandwidth memory with the unveiling of the NVIDIA A100 80GB GPU. This new GPU will be the innovation powering the new NVIDIA HGX AI supercomputing platform. With twice the memory, the new GPU hopes to help researchers and engineers hit
Today at SC20 NVIDIA announced its AI data-center-in-a-box with the NVIDIA DGX Station A100. This marks the second generation of the DGX and claims to be the world’s only petascale integrated AI workgroup server. This server comes with up to 320GB of GPU memory and can fit under a desk.
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
Today at SC20, NVIDIA announced the next generation of its NVIDIA Mellanox 400G InfiniBand. This acceleration platform is all about giving AI developers and scientific researchers the fastest networking performance available to take on the world’s most challenging problems. With the seventh generation of Mellanox InfiniBand is stated as delivering the ultra-low latency and doubles
This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. QNAP launches QuCPE Series. Seagate releases Game Drive for Xbox Halo: Master Chief Limited Edition. Samsung announced PCIe Gen4 drives. Catalogic Software launches CloudCasa. Scale Computing adds NVIDIA GPUs to its HC3.
Today GIGABYTE Technology announced the release of new GPU-centric servers. These new servers include the G482-Z53, G482-Z54, and G292-Z43 and are focused on HPC, AI, scientific simulation and modeling. The servers leverage the AMD EPYC architecture and can have up to eight GPUs in PCIe Gen 4 x16 lanes while still having room left over
Today, SonicWall announced four new firewalls, the NSa (note that the ‘a’ is not capitalized) 2700, the TZ270, TZ370, and TZ470. The new firewalls are in addition to the two other x70 firewalls, the TZ570 and the TZ670, they announced earlier this year. SonicWall was founded in 1991. SonicWall was a Dell subsidiary from 2012
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