Tuesday 8 November 2016

Top 8 Server Brands of 2016 Q2

8- Oracle :

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation, headquartered in Redwood Shores, California. The company primarily specializes in developing and marketing database software and technology, cloud engineered systems and enterprise software products—particularly its own brands of database management systems. In 2015 Oracle was the second-largest software maker by revenue, after Microsoft. Oracle Servers


7- Dell : 


Dell sold personal computers (PCs), servers, data storage devices, network switches, software, computer peripherals, HDTVs, cameras, printers, MP3 players, and electronics built by other manufacturers. The company was well known for its innovations in supply chain management and electronic commerce, particularly its direct-sales model and its "build-to-order" or "configure to order" approach to manufacturing—delivering individual PCs configured to customer specifications. Dell was a pure hardware vendor for much of its existence, but with the acquisition in 2009 of Perot Systems, Dell entered the market for IT services. The company has since made additional acquisitions in storage and networking systems, with the aim of expanding their portfolio from offering computers only to delivering complete solutions for enterprise customers.



6- Intel :

Intel Corporation was founded on July 18, 1968 by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, and widely associated with the executive leadership and vision of Andrew Grove. The company's name was conceived as portmanteau of the words integrated and electronics. The fact that "intel" is the term for intelligence information also made the name appropriate.[4] Intel was an early developer of SRAM and DRAM memory chips, which represented the majority of its business until 1981.


5- Super Micro Computer :


Supermicro was founded in 1993 by engineer and current CEO Charles Liang. The company was incorporated in Delaware in August 2006 and had its IPO in March 2007. As of June 30, 2012, Supermicro employed 1,472 full-time employees and 31 consultants at its operations in the United States, Europe, and Asia with customers in over 89 countries. The company offers its products through value-added resellers, system integrators, and original equipment manufacturers, as well as through its direct sales force.


4- IBM :


IBM is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries. The company originated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924.


3- Cisco Systems :


Geographically disparate computers over a multi protocol router system, which was unheard of technology at the time. By the time the company went public in 1990, when it was listed on the NASDAQ, Cisco had a market capitalization of $224 million. Cisco was the most valuable company in the world by 2000, with a more than $500 billion market capitalization.


2- Lenovo :


Lenovo was founded in Beijing in 1984 as Legend and was incorporated in Hong Kong in 1988. Lenovo acquired IBM's personal computer business in 2005 and agreed to acquire its Intel-based server business in 2014. Lenovo entered the smartphone market in 2012 and as of 2014 is the largest vendor of smartphones in Mainland China. In January 2014, Lenovo agreed to acquire the mobile phone handset maker Motorola Mobility from Google, and in October 2014 the deal was finalized.


1- HPE :


HPE is an American multinational enterprise information technology company based in Palo Alto, California, founded on 1 November 2015 as part of splitting of the Hewlett-Packard company. HPE is a business-focused organization with four divisions: Enterprise Group, which works in servers, storage, networking, consulting and support; Services; Software; and Financial Services.

Tuesday 25 October 2016

A Brief Introduction About High Performance Computing



By definition, supercomputers are the fastest and most powerful computers available, and at present the term refers to machines with hundreds of thousands of processors. They are the superstars of the high–performance class of computers. Personal computers (PCs) small enough in size and cost to be used by an individual, yet powerful enough for advanced scientific and engineering applications, can also be high–performance computers. We define High Performance Computing as machines with a good balance among the following major elements:

● Multi staged (pipelined) functional units.
● Multiple central processing units (CPUs) (parallel machines).
● Multiple cores.
● Fast central registers.
● Very large, fast memories.
● Very fast communication among functional units.
● Vector, video, or array processors.
● Software that integrates the above effectively.

As a simple example, it makes little sense to have a CPU of incredibly high speed coupled to a memory system and software that cannot keep up with it.

HPC and supercomputers are often associated with large, government-funded agencies or with academic institutions. However, most High Performance Computing today is in the commercial sector, in fields such as aerospace, automotive, semiconductor design, large equipment design and manufacturing, energy exploration, and financial computing.

HPC is used in other domains in which very large computations—such as fluid dynamics, electromagnetic simulations, and complex materials analysis—must be performed to ensure a high level of accuracy and predictability, resulting in higher quality, and safer, more efficient products. For example, HPC is used to model the aerodynamics, thermal characteristics, and mechanical properties of an automotive sub assembly or components to find exactly the right design that balances efficiency, reliability, cost, and safety, before spending millions of dollars prototyping a real product.
Image Source :- http://ibmdeepcomputing.tumblr.com/image/25850918222 

HPC is also found in domains such as 2D and 3D rendering for media and entertainment, genomics and proteomics analysis for life sciences and healthcare, Oil and gas reservoir simulation for energy exploration, and design verification for the semiconductor industry. In the financial sector, HPC is used to perform institutional liquidity simulations and to predict the future values and risks of complex investments. In architectural design, HPC is used to model everything from the structural properties of a building, to the efficiency of its cooling systems under thousands of different input parameters, resulting in millions of different simulation scenarios.

Over time, the growing use of High Performance Computing in research and in the commercial sector, particularly in manufacturing, finance, and energy exploration, coupled with a growing catalog of High Performance Computing applications, created a trend toward HPC platforms built to handle a wider variety of workloads, and these platforms are constructed using more widely available components. This use of commodity hardware components characterizes the cluster and grid era of High Performance Computing. Clusters and grids continue to be the dominant methods of deploying High Performance Computing in both the commercial and research/academic sectors. Economies of scale, and the need to centrally manage resources across large organizations with diverse requirements, have resulted in the practical reality that widely divergent applications are often run on the same, shared HPC infrastructure.

High performance computing can happen on:

● A workstation, desktop, laptop, smartphone!
● A supercomputer
● A Linux/MacOS/Windows/... cluster
● A grid or a cloud

● Cyber infrastructure = any combination of the above


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Monday 10 October 2016

Pros and Cons of Hard disk drive and Solid state drive

SSD vs HDD


What is Solid-state drive?

A solid-state drive (SSD), also known as a solid-state disk is a solid-state storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies as memory to store data persistently. SSD technology primarily uses electronic interfaces compatible with traditional block input/output (I/O) hard disk drives, which permit simple replacements in common applications. Additionally, new I/O interfaces, like SATA Express and M.2 have been designed to address specific requirements of the SSD technology.



What is Hard disk drive?

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive or fixed disk is a data storage device used for storing and retrieving digital information using one or more rigid rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. The platters are paired with magnetic heads arranged on a moving actuator arm, which read and write data to the platter surfaces. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. HDDs are a type of non-volatile memory, retaining stored data even when powered off.



Seagate 5mm 500GB Laptop Ultrathin HDD


Pros and Cons of HDD


Pro’s


  • Is in your possession so you know it is safe.
  • You can buy very large storage units for fairly cheap now-a-days.
  • Don’t have to be connected to the internet to transfer data to external hard drives.
  • Transfer speed is relatively faster, doesn’t depend on your connection.

Con’s

  • Can be knocked off a desk or damaged accidentally.
  • If an external hard drive breaks you have to send it in which usually means whipping the data on it.
  • Hard Disk Drive can’t be accessed from anywhere outside of your local network.
  • Going along with the local network, you can only share data with others when you’re physically together.
  • As with all physical computer parts, they age.
  • Some aren’t compatible with both Windows and Mac computers, you have to format them to work on both types of Operating Systems in some cases.
  • It adds an extra thing to your desk space (more chords dangling).



Pros and Cons of SSDPro’s


  • Speed:  Traditional hard drives rely on a spinning disk—much like a record player—which must start spinning before it can be accessed.  After this, the head of the drive must then find the correct point of access for the information   Solid State Hard Drives use flash memory which has the ability to go directly to the correct data automatically.   The result is faster boot times, as well as faster access and save times for your apps and files.  While this time might be almost unoticable to the average pc user, those who have many large files and programs—such as video editing software, extensive video files, gaming apps, etc—SDD Drives are worth looking at in terms of the time saved.
  • Noise: SDD Solid State Drives are virtually silent.  Traditional hard drives can be somewhat noisy, due to the spindle having to revolve within the drive enclosure.  Desktop drives can make considerable noise in particular.
  • Size and Weight: Solid State Drives are much smaller and lighter than traditional drives, making them especially popular for mobile computing solutions like notebooks and net books.
  • Performance and Durability: Solid State Drives do not have as much wear and tear compared to traditional drives.Also, Solid State Drives do not suffer from fragmentation issues, and thus do not have to be de-fragmented as do traditional drives.  SDD Drives on average will have smaller failure rate, and will be more resistant to shock damage created by drops and bumps.
  • Power Savings:  SSD Drives generally use less power than disk drives.



CONS: 

  • Cost: While the costs are falling at the present time, Solid State Drives are still more expensive than traditional hard drives.
  • Capacity: SSD Drives generally have much less capacity than traditional drives.  While there are 1TB SSD drives out there, the cost of a good one is a couple thousand dollars, making it impractical for most consumers and businesses.



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Tuesday 27 September 2016

Barebone Rackmount Server System and Chassis

E-commerce website Shop IRON is a trusted name in barebone Server. Shop IRON offers wide range of Rackmount servers for different industries as per their usage, need and requirement. Buy rack mount server systems at reasonable price with fast and safe shipping right to your doorstep. 

Supermicro Superserver SYS-5019S-MT
Supermicro Superserver SYS-50195-MT
CPU
Single socket H4 (LGA 1151) supports Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 v5, Intel® 6th Gen. Core™ i3 series
Chipset
Intel® C236 chipset
Drive Bays
4x 3.5" Hot-swap SATA3 bays w/ RAID
Memory Capacity
Up to 64GB Unbuffered ECC UDIMM DDR4 2133MHz; 4x DIMM slots
Expansion Slots
1 PCI-E 3.0 x8 AOC slot
Network Controllers
2x 10GBase-T ports with Intel® X550
IPMI
Integrated IPMI 2.0 and KVM with Dedicated LAN
Input / Output
I/O ports: 1x VGA, 2x COM, 2x USB 3.0 (front/rear), USB 2.0
Power Supply
350W High-efficiency Power Supply Platinum Level Certified



Supermicro SuperServer SYS-5018D-FN8T
Supermicro SuperServer SYS-5018D-FN8T

CPU
Intel® Xeon® processor D-1518, Single socket FCBGA 1667; 4-Core, 8 Threads, 35W
Drive Bays
1x 3.5" or 4x 2.5" drive bays with bracket
Expansion Slots
1x PCIe 3.0 x8 slot, M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4, M Key 2242/2280/22110, Mini-PCIe with mSATA support
Memory Capacity
Up to 128GB ECC RDIMM DDR4 2133MHz or 64GB ECC/non-ECC UDIMM in 4 sockets
Network Controllers
Dual 10G SFP+ and Six 1GbE LAN
Input / Output
I/O: 2x USB 3.0, VGA
System Cooling
Passive CPU heat sink and 3x 40mm chassis fans
Input / Output
DOM power connector
Power Supply
200W Low-noise power supply w/ PFC




Supermicro SuperServer SYS-5018A-FTN4
Supermicro SuperServer SYS-5018A-FTN4
CPU
Intel® Atom processor C2758, SoC, FCBGA 1283, 20W 8-Core
CPU
Intel® System-on-Chip Design
Drive Bays
2x 3.5" Fixed SATA3 HDD bays or 4x 2.5" SATA2 HDD optional
Expansion Slots
1x PCI-E 2.0 x8 slot
Memory Capacity
Up to 64GB DDR3 1600MHz ECC SO-DIMM in 4 DIMM slots
Network Controllers
Quad GbE ports, IPMI w/ dedicated LAN
Input / Output
DOM power connector
Power Supply
200W Low-noise power supply w/ PFC
Advantages
Support Intel® QuickAssist Acceleration Technology



Supermicro SuperServer 7048R-C1R4+,
CPU
Dual socket R3 (LGA 2011) supports Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4/ v3 family; QPI up to 9.6GT/s
Memory Capacity
Up to 3TB ECC 3DS LRDIMM , up to DDR4- 2400MHz ; 24x DIMM slots
Expansion Slots
2x PCI-E 3.0 x16, 3x PCI-E 3.0 x8, and 1x PCI-E 2.0 x4 (in x8) slot
Network Controllers
Quad LAN w/ Intel® i350 GbE
Input / Output
I/O ports: 2x SuperDOM, 1x VGA, 2x COM, 2x USB 3.0, 4x USB 2.0
Drive Bays
8x 3.5" Hot-swap SATA3 HDD Bays; 8x 2.5" Hot-swap SAS3 drives in mobile rack; 1x 5.25" drive bay
Power Supply
920W Redundant Power Supplies Platinum Level (94%)
Chassis
Tower or Rackmount



Supermicro SuperServer SYS-5019S-ML
CPU
Single socket H4 (LGA 1151) supports Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 v5, Intel® 6th Gen. Core™ i3 series
Chipset
Intel® C236 chipset
Drive Bays
2x 3.5" Fixed drive bay or 3x 2.5" drive option
Memory Capacity
Up to 64GB ECC/non-ECC UDIMM DDR4 2133MHz; 4x DIMM slots
Expansion Slots
1x PCI-E 3.0 x8 AOC slot
Network Controllers
2x GbE ports with Intel® i210-AT 1x shared IPMI port
Input / Output
I/O ports: 1x VGA, 1x COM, 2x USB 2.0, USB 3.0
Power Supply
350W Platinum Level power supply

Monday 1 August 2016

Buy barebone supermicro storage jbod Enclosure/chassis online

What is Jbod Enclosure?A JBOD (Just a Bunch of Drives) is a drive enclosure that accommodates multiple disk drives. These drives are interfaced through a common backplane and are accessed through JBOD controllers that provide either the Fiber Channel bypass or SAS expander functionality.

Shop IRON offers barebone supermicro storage jbod Enclosure/chassis online at affordable price with fast and safe shipping.Expand your storage capacity with our JBOD Storage solutions, providing a dependable, high-capacity, economical storage expansion option.

JBOD Storage Expansion units provide a dependable, high-capacity, storage expansion option. Our JBODs are perfect for consolidating archives and backups from a central storage server or increasing storage capacity on an existing system. Using JBODs for storage expansion is often the most economical method to expand your current storage capacity.


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Thursday 14 July 2016

Best buy solid state drive and components

What is Solid State Drive?

An SSD (solid-state drive or solid-state disk) is a nonvolatile storage device that stores persistent data on solid-state flash memory.

Shop for Solid State Drives online at best prices in USA and Canada. Safe, secure, Fast, reliable delivery to your door with Flexible payment methods.

1- Intel Solid State Drive:- 

Intel P3608 Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDPECME040T4 4.0TB NVMe PCIe 3.0 X8 HET MLC HHHL AIC 20nm 3DWPD.


Toshiba Phoenix-M3 ME Solid State Drive (SSD) PX04SMB320 3.2TB SAS 12Gb/s MLC 2.5" 15mm 19nm 10DWPD.


Seagate 1200.2 Solid State Drive (SSD) ST3840FM0003 3840GB SAS 12Gb/s enterprise eMLC 2.5" 15.0mm (3DWPD).


HGST Gallant Fox Solid State Drive HUSPR3232ADP301 3.2TB NVMe PCIe 3.0 MLC 2.5" 19nm 3DWPD 0T00839


Samsung PM1725 Solid State Drive (SSD) MZWLK3T2HCJL-00003 3.2TB NVMe PCIe3.0 VNAND 2.5" 15mm (5 DWPD).


SanDisk Optimus2 MAX Solid State Drive (SSD) SDLLOCDR038T5C00 3.8TB SAS 6Gb/s MLC 2.5" 9.5mm 19nm DWPD 0.5


Micron M500DC Solid State Drive (SSD) MTFDDAK800MBB1AE 800GB SATA 6Gb/s 20nm MLC 2.5" 7.0mm 3DWPD.