[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Microprocessors have stolen the headlines among HPC (and HPC-AI) systems components, but today, in what some call the “Age of Computation*,” chips dominate more than ever.

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Chinese infrastructure giant Huawei has launched two product families based on Rack Scale Design –a relatively new server architecture developed by Intel and especially suitable for hyperscale data ...

Over at the AMD Blog, Scot Aylor writes that the company’s EPYC processors are coming to Cisco’s popular UCS server platform. The new, density-optimized Cisco UCS C4200 Series Rack Server Chassis and ...

Over the past three years, Facebook has saved $2 billion in infrastructure costs and enough energy to power almost 80,000 homes due to the work of the Open Compute Project and its own internal ...

Servers are most often found in climate controlled data centers. This means they aren’t exactly built for creature comforts like quiet operation. Quite the contrary — many server chassis include fans ...

Cisco expands its USC server line up to include AMD 7000-series EPYC processors. See also: What would Steve Jobs think of today's Apple? The new offerings come in the form of the Cisco UCS C4200 ...

We found that blade servers reduce but don’t eliminate redundant hardware components requiring electrical power, a pivotal consideration in total cost of ownership (TCO). That said, while IBM’s blade ...

Facebook has taken delivery of the first set of innovative server racks it helped design, technology that the company hopes other organizations with large data centers will adopt. The prototype racks ...

Over the past few months, I have been slowly building up and adding onto my test regiment for network storage and switches alike. After ramping up to five systems, I quickly came to the realization ...

Blade servers may be all the rage, but one computer maker is working to squeeze more horsepower into a conventional chassis. Server and motherboard maker Supermicro plans to announce its 1U Twin ...