The following items should be completed to maintain the health of your Linux cluster. For servers and workstations, please see Common Maintenance Tasks (Workstations and Servers). Backup non-replaceable data Remember that RAID is not a replacement for backups.…
This article provides in-depth discussion and analysis of the 10nm Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family (formerly codenamed “Ice Lake-SP” or “Ice Lake Scalable Processor”). These processors replace the previous 14nm “Cascade Lake-SP” microarchitecture and are available for…
This article provides in-depth discussion and analysis of the 7nm AMD EPYC processor (codenamed “Milan” and based on AMD’s Zen3 architecture). EPYC “Milan” processors replace the previous “Rome” processors and are available for sale as of March…
This article provides details on the NVIDIA A-series GPUs (codenamed “Ampere”). “Ampere” GPUs improve upon the previous-generation “Volta” and “Turing” architectures. Ampere A100 GPUs began shipping in May 2020 (with other variants shipping by end of 2020).…
This article provides in-depth discussion and analysis of the 7nm AMD EPYC processor (codenamed “Rome” and based on AMD’s Zen2 architecture). EPYC “Rome” processors replace the previous “Naples” processors and are available for sale as of August…
This article provides in-depth discussion and analysis of the 14nm Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family (formerly codenamed “Cascade Lake-SP” or “Cascade Lake Scalable Processor”). “Cascade Lake-SP” processors replace the previous 14nm “Skylake-SP” microarchitecture and are available for…
Professional NVIDIA GPUs (the Tesla and Quadro products) are equipped with error-correcting code (ECC) memory, which allows the system to detect when memory errors occur. Smaller “single-bit” errors are transparently corrected. Larger “double-bit” memory errors will cause…
Compute-intensive applications typically require as much system memory bandwidth as can be provided. For this reason, it is very important that system memory be correctly configured and installed. Microway reviews all systems to ensure proper performance (both…
This article provides in-depth details of the NVIDIA Quadro RTX “Turing” GPUs. NVIDIA “Turing” GPUs bring an evolved core architecture and add dedicated ray tracing units to the previous-generation “Volta” architecture. Turing GPUs began shipping in late…
This article provides in-depth details of the NVIDIA Tesla V-series GPU accelerators (codenamed “Volta”). “Volta” GPUs improve upon the previous-generation “Pascal” architecture. Volta GPUs began shipping in September 2017 and were updated to 32GB of memory in…
