Tag: server

Missed out on the $500,000 Cheyenne supercomputer deal? Supermicro has an Intel server offer that you can’t refuse — eight Gaudi 2 AI accelerators, 76 cores, 1TB of RAM and 100GbE for just $90,000

Cheyenne, a US supercomputer once ranked 20th in the world and with 8,000 Intel Xeon CPUs and 300TB of RAM (plus a few maintenance issues, including water leaks), was recently auctioned off by US General Services Administration (GSA). After a tussle between 27 bidders, Cheyenne went for a respectable $480,085, plus the costs of dismantling […]

Nvidia’s next-gen Blackwell AI Superchips could cost up to $70,000 — fully-equipped server racks reportedly range up to $3,000,000 or more

Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs for AI applications will be more expensive than the company’s Hopper-based processors, according to analysts from HSBC cited by @firstadopter, a senior writer from Barron’s. The analysts claim that one GB200 superchip (CPU+GPUs) could cost up to $70,000. However, Nvidia may be more inclined to sell servers based on the Blackwell GPUs rather than selling […]

Dell Stock Hits Record High On AI Server Build-Out

Dell Technologies (DELL) is “the best way to play” the artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out, investment bank Morgan Stanley said Wednesday. Dell stock jumped on the news. X Morgan Stanley analyst Erik Woodring reiterated his overweight, or buy, rating on Dell stock and raised his price target to 152 from 128. He also calls Dell stock […]

Chinese server CPU beats Microsoft, Google and AWS rivals to grab performance crown — Alibaba’s Yitian 710 is quickest server CPU but it is based on Arm rather than RISC and x86 is likely to be the overall speed champion

Alibaba Cloud’s Yitian 710 processor is the most efficient Arm-based server processor for database tasks in hyperscale cloud environments around today, new research has claimed. A recent study published in the Transactions on Cloud Computing journal by IEEE found the 128-core  processor, developed in 2021, not only trumps rival Arm-based chips, but is reported to […]

Server outage briefly disrupts TCAP tests in Tennessee schools Friday

A server that powers standardized testing in Tennessee was down briefly on Friday morning, temporarily halting testing for some districts. The server, owned by Pearson Assessments, was back up and running by 8:50 a.m. CT on Friday, according to Brian Blackley, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Education. The server also supports other states, […]

Report says server denied booze to “overserved” Boebert at Trump event

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., was cut off from alcohol at a December fundraiser headlined by former President Donald Trump, according to CNN. Boebert, who faces a difficult election battle after switching districts and coming under fire for vaping and groping at a Denver theater, was told by a server that “they would not bring her […]