The DIY audience knows Arctic well from decades of excellent CPU cooler launches. Today, Arctic is launching something for the server and data centre crowd – the new Freezer 4U-M. The Arctic Freezer 4U-M is the successor to the Freezer 4U SP3. Offering multi-socket support for Intel and AMD processors, …
Read More »Gigabyte’s Giga Computing unveils new Compute Nodes powered by EPYC Genoa
Many of us know Gigabyte for their PC components, peripherals and monitors but the company's subsidiary, Giga Computing, is also big in the server world. In October, Gigabyte's Giga Computing is exhibiting at the OCP Global Summit, showcasing new EPYC OCP V3 Compute Nodes. The new GIGABYTE OCP ORv3 products …
Read More »Nvidia reveals liquid-cooled A100 and Grace CPU-powered systems at Computex 2022
Last night during Nvidia's Computex 2022 keynote, the company had a few major announcements to make. On the gaming side, we've already seen the world's first 500Hz monitor with G-Sync and Reflex technology. On the hardware side, Nvidia primarily focused on data centre and accelerators, including a new liquid-cooled A100 …
Read More »LittleBigPlanet 1,2,3 and Vita servers shut down
While LittleBigPlanet offered a comprehensive single player campaign, the games were known best for their community created levels, which served as a hub for creativity and ultimately inspiring the development of Dreams. Unfortunately, all but one of the games is seeing its servers shut down permanently. Throughout 2021, the LittleBigPlanet …
Read More »Synology launches new RS1221+ rackmounted storage servers
Synology has announced its newest 8-bay rackmounted storage servers, which it claims ‘deliver high performance in a space-efficient manner.' Today we have not one, but two new servers from Synology – the RS1221+ and the RS1221RP+, the latter of which has power redundancy support thanks to its two PSUs. Designed …
Read More »Microsoft said to be developing ARM-based processors for servers and Surface PCs
Recently, Apple announced plans to move away from Intel CPUs and replace them with ARM-based SoCs designed in-house. Now, it would seem that Microsoft is following a similar path for its Surface line of devices, with plans to develop its own ARM-based processor. These new ARM-based processors will also be …
Read More »Intel has ‘temporarily paused’ server CPU shipments to Inspur following latest US trade law changes
As the trade situation between the US and China gets more complicated, we are seeing more significant impact in the tech world. This time around, Intel is going to temporarily lose a good chunk of its global server processor sales. The US is clamping down on companies trading with Chinese …
Read More »Supermicro unveils new SuperServer for 3rd Gen Xeon processors
Supermicro has launched a new X12 generation 4-socket SuperServer designed to accommodate the new 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors. The new SuperServer is capable of supporting “four 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, up to 18TB of System Memory Capacity, 24 Hot-swap NVM-e drives, and Enhanced Security”. Last week, Intel …
Read More »EKWB introduce new enterprise grade GPU water blocks
EK Water Blocks has expanded its professional range this week with a host of new workstation/server-grade water blocks for powerful workstation graphics cards from both Nvidia and AMD, including Quadro, Tesla and Radeon Pro WX GPUs. The company claims that this is just the beginning of its push into the …
Read More »Xilinx unveils real-time server appliances for video streaming
Xilinx has unveiled new “purpose-built video transcoding appliances” based on a new “Xilinx Real-Time Server reference architecture”. The device is designed to deliver good video quality at lower cost and high channel density per rack. Just a year ago, few could have predicted the massive upswing in video conferencing that …
Read More »AMD Launches New High-Frequency EPYC 7Fx2 Processors
AMD is expanding its line-up of 2nd Gen EPYC Zen 2-based server processors with higher-TDP and frequency-tuned EPYC 7Fx2 chips. The 8, 16, and 24-core parts are positioned specifically to fight Intel's recently released Cascade Lake Xeon 'Performance' chips.
Read More »EKWB introduce professional line of water cooling products
EK Water Blocks has a great reputation for producing some top-quality consumer-grade PC water cooling products. The company has now announced a brand-new line of water cooling gear aimed at professional use. The new professional range of products feature a robust design, making them ideal for industrial use in applications …
Read More »Gigabyte and Incooling create new class of phase-change server cooling
Gigabyte has announced a new partnership with cooling specialists Incooling to design a prototype model for a new class of two-phase liquid cooling solution...
Read More »AMD partners with Fujitsu in the new Primergy LX1430 server
Fujitsu has announced a collaboration with AMD in its new Primergy LX1430 single-slot rack server designed specifically for Internet Service Provider data centres. The new Fujitsu rack server will feature 2nd generation AMD EPYC processors. The new single-slot rack server from Fujitsu is designed to meet the needs of scale-out …
Read More »Intel announce Xeon E-2200 processors featuring up to eight cores and 5.0 GHz
An area which Intel still has a vast share of the market is with server CPUs – the company has announced that the new Xeon E-2200 processors are available now for entry-level servers. Intel’s Xeon E-2200 is designed to deliver essential performance for businesses, with advanced security features for cloud-based …
Read More »Europe’s most powerful Supercomputer to be powered by AMD EPYC CPUs
Back in May, we covered how AMD and Cray, a supercomputing expert subsidiary of HP, would together build the world's fastest computer for the US Department of Energy. But apparently, another government plans to have a supercomputer built by both companies. The UK government chose AMD and Cray to build the …
Read More »AMD Launches EPYC ‘Rome’ Zen 2 CPUs – Up to 64 Cores for $7K
AMD has today officially launched its new range of Zen 2-based EPYC datacenter CPUs, codenamed Rome, introducing the world's highest performance x86 processor.
Read More »AMD’s EPYC success is paving the way for 7nm server chips
AMD’s server-based EPYC processors have been doing the rounds for the past year, making waves against Intel’s Xeon offerings. Team Red took some time out yesterday to tell us just how well its current Naples line of chips are doing, as well as outlining plans for the impending Rome series. …
Read More »Ministry of Defence switches servers to Microsoft’s new UK centres
Microsoft has opened up its first UK based datacentres in London, Cardiff and Durham, prompting many companies and organisations to switch over from alternatives to the new facility. One big move of note, is that the Ministry of Defence has moved its data from military held servers to Microsoft's cloud platform. …
Read More »HP awarded £2.25 billion in four year Oracle trial
As is the case with every major court case between industry giants, the legal battle between Oracle and Hewlett Packard (HP) has been ongoing for more than four years at this point. However a jury has finally awarded damages, mandating that Oracle pay HP a total of $3 billion (£2.25 …
Read More »UK Hosting company error took a bunch of customer websites offline
While some on the internet were trolled last week by a man claiming to have destroyed his entire company with a bad line of code, this week we have a very real story about a hosting company that may have managed to accidentally delete an unspecified number of its customers' …
Read More »Battle.net’s DDOS hiccup. Don’t worry, it’s back to normal already
If you tried to play a Battle.net game this morning, whether it was Overwatch, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm of something else, you might have run into a few difficulties. That's because some nefarious individuals launched a DDOS attack on the service. Fortunately Blizzard's response was swift and exact and …
Read More »Thousands gathered to bid fairwell to Nostalrius vanilla WoW server
Despite an active player base of more than 150,000 people, Blizzard forced the final shut down of the Nostalrius, fan-run, vanilla World of Warcraft server this weekend. To mourn this loss and send it off in grand style, several thousand people came together in the hours before the server died, forming …
Read More »Apple thinks someone is modifying its servers during transit
In the latest instance of Apple looking to distance itself from government interference, it has announced that it is now designing its own servers in-house, because it's concerned that someone is modifying its servers after they've been shipped from the manufacturer. In some cases, it believes hardware was added to …
Read More »Huawei delivers the world’s first 32-socket x86 server
Huawei is best known for its networking backbone hardware and budget smartphones, or rather it was, in the recent past but that will change as today Huawei has delivered three servers in its KunLun family (named after a huge mountain range in the heart of China) with 8, 16 or …
Read More »AMD brings hardware virtualisation to GPUs
As long-distance computing, streaming and cloud gaming become more common place, rendering more true-to-life virtual systems is becoming vitally important. That's why in the lead up to its Polaris architecture unveiling later this year, AMD has announced a new series of FirePro S-Series GPUs, which have the ability to virtualise …
Read More »Oracle and Intel take fight to IBM server market
Intel is making big pushes into a number of different markets this year, driving its low-power, small form factor chips into wearables and micro-systems, and looking to make its Xeon CPUs dominate in the hotly contested server market with the help of Oracle. Together they're hoping to convince enterprise customers …
Read More »Intel launches Skylake Xeon E3-1200 V5 Greenlow chip family
Although we all get rather excited when companies like Intel launch their new-generations of consumer grade hardware, we aren't the only target audience for new CPU technology. Indeed, there's also a large enterprise sector to cater to, which is often where Intel aims its Xeon processors. That's exactly what's happened …
Read More »Intel Xeon E5, E7 “Broadwell” CPUs with up to 24 cores due in 2016
Intel Corp. has slightly re-scheduled release dates for its upcoming Xeon E5 v4 and Xeon E7 v4 central processing units for servers. Instead of late 2015, the world’s largest maker of microprocessors will launch its new server CPUs in the first half of 2016. The reasons for the delay are …
Read More »Norwegian Pirate Party opens Pirate Bay DNS workaround
It was a sad day when the British Pirate party, PPUK, announced that it would have to close its Pirate Bay proxy site over fear of legal action from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), as the party truly believed that by averting censorship it was doing the right thing. That seems …
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