Hello, McFly! It’s not 1985 any more. Rack space at the data center is expensive. Not only that, system power consumption is always a concern. System density is more important than ever. Pogo has the solution: Deploy twin servers! Two heads are better than one, right? Iris 4882 This is heavy, Doc. The Iris 4882 shoehorns eight…
As we approach the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, our competitive spirit has us thinking, “What if there was an Olympic event for mathematical number crunching?” If there were, these two new systems would be vying for gold. In the Workstation division, the Velocity Q58VL’s extreme integer-based processing would reign supreme. Meanwhile, the floating point capabilities of…
Pogo has just returned from Orlando, Florida where we attended the Intel Solutions Summit 2016. ISS is the annual event where Intel execs give presentations to their partners, sharing juicy details about their current and upcoming projects. Now that the fog of jetlag has begun to clear, let’s do a quick recap! There are a…
A “tick” is not merely a check mark or a nuisance insect – it’s a major Intel® product launch! In accordance with Moore’s Law, Intel’s Xeon® E5 2600 v4 processor family represents a “tick” in Intel’s “tick-tock” upgrade model. The overall microarchitecture remains the same, but shrinks. (In this case slimming down from 22 nm to 14 nm). What…
The first new class of memory in 25 years 1989 was a good year. Gas was less than a dollar per gallon; Intel unveiled the 486 series CPU; the Berlin Wall came down; and Nintendo released the first Game Boy. There was also a milestone you may not remember: 1989 was the the last time…
