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Detailed Specifications of the “Ice Lake SP” Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family CPUs

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 sale as of … Continue reading

Detailed Specifications of the AMD EPYC “Milan” CPUs

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 15th, 2021. These … Continue reading

In-Depth Comparison of NVIDIA “Ampere” GPU Accelerators

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). Note that not … Continue reading

Detailed Specifications of the AMD EPYC “Rome” CPUs

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 7th, 2019. We … Continue reading

Detailed Specifications of the “Cascade Lake SP” Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family CPUs

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 sale as of … Continue reading

Check for memory errors on NVIDIA GPUs

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 applications to crash, … Continue reading

Optimizing the Performance of System Memory

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 during the sales … Continue reading

In-Depth Comparison of NVIDIA Quadro “Turing” GPU Accelerators

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 2018. Important features … Continue reading

In-Depth Comparison of NVIDIA Tesla “Volta” GPU Accelerators

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 March 2018; Tesla … Continue reading

Solutions for Rackmounting Extra Depth Systems

Extra Depth Systems having socketed GPUs, such as the Tesla V100 SXM2, or the Tesla P100 SXM2, require an additional, or extended system board, onto which the socketed GPUs are seated. In this type of system, the presence of the … Continue reading