The Sandy Bridge based Xeon E5-2600 processors were launched by Intel yesterday, and Supermicro wasn't far behind in launching a host of solutions supporting / based on these processors. The new generation X9 Xeon E5 family based platforms offer a number of improved features over previous offerings from Supermicro, including but not limited to: Support for up to 768 GB of DDR3-1600 MHz memory in 24 DIMM slots SATA 3.0 and SAS 2.0 (6 Gbps) support ConnectX FDR/QDR InfiniBand ports Dual 10 GbE Ethernet / Quad Ethernet LAN PCIe 3.0 LSI 2008 (Software RAID) and LSI 2108 (Hardware RAID) controllers More than 100 product platforms have been updated / newly created by Supermicro for the new Xeon E5 processor family. Supermicro's X9 solutions can be broadly divided into the following categories: Supermicro Servers Supermicro...
The Xeon E5-2600: Dual Sandy Bridge for Servers
Eight improved cores, 16 threads, integrated 40 lane PCIe 3.0: the new socket 2011 Xeon E5-2660 manages to package it all in a very modest power envelope of 95W...
65 by Johan De Gelas on 3/6/2012
Virtualized or Not? We've Got Numbers
We have had epic discussions with quite a few readers about the importance of virtualization in our reviews. In our six-core Opteron review we wrote: "Let there be no misunderstanding...
34 by Johan De Gelas on 2/15/2012
Microsoft Integrating Hyper-V Into Windows 8 Client
Microsoft is beefing up virtualization support in Windows 8 with Hyper-V, writes Microsoft's Mathew John on the Building Windows 8 blog. Hyper-V was previously available in Windows Server 2008...
9 by Andrew Cunningham on 9/7/2011
Ask the Experts: Virtualization & Cloud Computing Questions Answered
Last year we ran a little series called Ask the Experts where you all wrote in your virtualization related questions and we got them answered by experts at Intel...
56 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/17/2011
Virtualization - Ask the Experts #6
We conclude our series of Ask the Experts with four questions you all asked about servers and virtualization in previous posts. Thanks to everyone who participated and we hope...
6 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/1/2010Virtualization - Ask the Experts #5
A couple of months ago we ran a webcast with Intel Fellow, Rich Uhlig, VMware Chief Platform Architect, Rich Brunner and myself. The goal was to talk about the...
27 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/29/2010Virtualization - Ask the Experts #4
Our Ask the Experts series continues with another round of questions. A couple of months ago we ran a webcast with Intel Fellow, Rich Uhlig, VMware Chief Platform Architect, Rich...
9 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/10/2010Virtualization - Ask the Experts #3
Our Ask the Experts series continues with another round of questions. A couple of months ago we ran a webcast with Intel Fellow, Rich Uhlig, VMware Chief Platform Architect, Rich...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/2/2010Virtualization - Ask the Experts #2
Our Ask the Experts series continues with another round of questions. A couple of months ago we ran a webcast with Intel Fellow, Rich Uhlig, VMware Chief Platform Architect, Rich...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/27/2010Virtualization - Ask the Experts #1
A couple of months ago we ran a webcast with Intel Fellow, Rich Uhlig, VMware Chief Platform Architect, Rich Brunner and myself. The goal was to talk about the...
44 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/22/2010
