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Today we have the launch of the Ampere Altra Arm CPUs. This is a completely new design built specifically for cloud providers. It has up to 80 cores and is designed to go head-to-head with AMD EPYC 7002 “Rome” series processors as well as 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Refresh parts. Ampere is launching today but we do not have a test system as we have had for all of the other major server chip launc

Today we are going to more thoroughly address the Bloomberg Businessweek article alleging that China targeted 30 companies by inserting chips in the manufacturing process of Supermicro servers. Despite denials from named companies and the technology press casting some reasonable doubt on the story, Bloomberg doubled down and posted a follow-up article claiming a different hack took place. In this

Ask just about any *NIX admin using a Windows laptop and they will have come across Putty. For years, Apple MacBooks have been the go-to choice for many admins partly because getting to a ssh shell is so easy. The newly re-invigorated Microsoft is changing how easy it is to interface with Linux (and other *NIX flavors) significantly with features like Ubuntu on Windows. There is a new beta feature

Pivoting slightly from our focus on high-end, and high-power server CPUs, we have the Intel Atom C3958 performance benchmarks under Linux. We have already published benchmarks on the Intel Atom C3338, C3558 and C3955 which are instructive for other points of reference within the Intel Atom C3000 series. While the Intel Atom C3958 does not have the clock speeds to match the Intel Atom C3955 series,

Storage will again be very interesting in 2017. We wanted to take a quick look at some of the storage trends for 2017. Instead of being extremely verbose, these are a few key points on what we will see in the storage market. SSDs Larger Capacity and Short Supply We have already seen announcements from Micron regarding 8TB drives. We expect to see larger capacity NVMe SSDs from Intel (perhaps an In

If you are a user of Firefox we have a must-change setting. Today’s modern multi-core processor systems and higher quantities of RAM allow users to open multiple Firefox tabs and windows simultaneously. This can have an unintended effect for those SSDs as session store data can write data constantly to NAND. This issue is being discussed in a STH forum thread where you can follow the discussion. O