Xeon 5500 CPUs and EVC in vSphere
In early April when I traveled to Houston to meet with HP about the ProLiant G6 servers–a trip which resulted in this blog post–I got into a discussion with representatives from HP and Intel regarding...
View ArticleLive From HP Tech Forum: HP DL980, Blades, and EVA Cluster
We were pleased to be invited to attend HP’s annual Tech Forum event, held in Las Vegas on June 21-24, 2010. Among the many announcements made by HP, the massive DL980 and new blade servers stood out,...
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AMD Attempts Epyc Return to the Data Center
Howard Marks is excited about AMD’s new Epyc server CPU’s: With up to 32 cores, 2TB of RAM, and 128 lanes of PCIe Epyc puts the power of today’s dual socket servers into a single socket. That’s pretty...
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AMD Threadripper X399 Motherboards RANKED (by tackiness)
AMD is enjoying a degree of success in the desktop CPU market that it hasn’t tasted in over a decade. The processors based on their Zen architecture may not quite match Intel on a per-clock basis, but...
View ArticleSprucing up the lab with ioFABRIC & NVMe
Getting the most out of your home lab is essential for keeping up on certifications, and to keep expanding your skill sets in general. Matt Crape set himself the ambitious goal of expanding his home...
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Dueling AMD and Intel Server CPUs, HyperGrid Brings On-Demand to the Data...
Where Do You Want to Go Today? Here’s your regular look at what’s happening in servers. If you’d like to sign up for our newsletter and never miss an update, sign up here! Featured Stories AMD Attempts...
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Quick Look at AMD’s Radeon RX VEGA 64 for Crypto Mining
AMD has now officially released their much anticipated Radeon RX VEGA 64 GPU, so of course the first thing to test is its capabilities in crypto mining. There were many rumors about the performance of...
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Asus B250 Mining Expert Motherboard with 19 PCI-E Slots
I’ve made no secret that I have opinions about motherboard design. Asus just released details on a new motherboard, designed for the cryptocurrency mining community, and it’s something to behold. At...
View ArticleGestalt IT Rundown, December 20, 2017
This week on the Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss what the biggest stories of 2017 were, and how they will effect IT in the New Year. The Gestalt IT Rundown is a live...
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Intel Packs Radeon RX Vega Graphics into Core i7-8809G
When news broke late last year that Intel was going to ship a CPU with integrated Radeon graphics, it was weird. There weren’t a lot of details at the time. And Intel seemed anxious to assure consumers...
View ArticleIntel CPU Flaw May Lead to Winter of Discontent
Winter definitely seems to be the season of discontent for Intel. Last year, they were dealing with defective Atom CPUs bricking devices. At the time it was a pretty serious situation, Cisco had to...
View ArticleBad Moon Ryzen | Gestalt IT Rundown – March 14, 2018
The Gestalt IT Rundown looks at the IT news of the week with hosts Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino. Today they talked about the death of Broadcom-Qualcomm, cryptomining on your calendar, AMD CPU...
View ArticleAMD’s Second Generation Threadripper Isn’t Quite EPYC
At first blush, AMD’s second generation Threadripper processor looks to be a direct consumer adaptation of the company’s server-focused EPYC platform. The impressively bulky piece of silicon comes with...
View ArticleIntel CPU Flaw May Lead to Winter of Discontent
Winter seems to bring out the worst Intel processor bugs. Last year it was Atom CPUs causing devices to brick. This year it's something even more serious. The post Intel CPU Flaw May Lead to Winter of...
View ArticleRadeon Returns to the Data Center
AMD’s Epyc platform has seen the company return to relevance in the data center last year, something that seemed impossible just a little while ago. We got to test out a Dell EMC PowerEdge R7415, built...
View ArticleThe AWS ARM Chip That Wasn’t
The Register has a juicy little inside scoop on the new ARM-based AWS Graviton processor. Evidently, the company originally tagged AMD to produce the chip, but walked away in 2015 when they failed to...
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An AMD EPYC-Powered Sun Ultra 24 Workstation
In terms of repurposing old computer hardware, it would be hard to pick a project that would bring a bigger smile to my face than retrofitting an Intel Core2Duo-based Sun workstation to use modern AMD...
View ArticleBad Week To Be A Standards Body | Gestalt IT Rundown: May 29, 2019
This week on the Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Rich Stroffolino discuss the relevant news out of Computex, how future HTML standards are changing, and Huawei getting the boot from a few standards...
View ArticleAMD Wasn’t Built In A Day | Gestalt IT Rundown: August 14, 2019
This week Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino talked about the WeWork IPO, why misconfigured EBS snapshots are the new misconfigured S3 buckets, and why AMD’s new server chips weren’t built in a day. The...
View ArticleThe Rise of Semi-Custom Silicon
Rich Stroffolino discusses why we’re seeing a rise in semi-custom silicon approaches. General-purpose computing has been the rule for decades, but the slowing performance and efficiency gains on x86...
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