Posted on September 9, 2016 by admin
NVIDIA has recently introduced the new TITAN X™, the biggest and most advanced GPU ever built. Blaise Pascal said, “Imagination decides everything.” This certainly applies to the hardware engineering team at NVIDIA. Not content with the already “irresponsible amount of performance” of their GTX 1080, they imagined breaking the 10 teraflops barrier for computing on a single chip….
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Posted on September 9, 2016 by Rachel B
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…
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Posted on August 8, 2016 by Rachel B
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…
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Posted on April 4, 2016 by admin
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…
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Posted on March 3, 2016 by Rachel B
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…
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