One of the interesting highlights of September was finally having our hands on an AmpereOne server! After years of being eager to test Ampere Computing’s next-generation AArch64 server processors, Ampere sent over their 192-core flagship server processor for a few weeks of testing. The review server was comprised of the AmpereOne A192-32X flagship model within a Supermicro ARS-211M-NR 2U […]
Today, we have the server review we have been waiting to do for some time. This is the Supermicro MegaDC ARS-211M-NR, an Ampere AmpereOne system. Make no mistake, this is a very cool server with 192 custom Arm cores. This is also really fun because it is the first time we have reviewed a second-generation […]
A new high performance computing (HPC) cluster has been installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California. The cluster, dubbed Mammoth, was designed in a collaboration between AMD, LLNL researchers, Supermicro and Cornelis Networks. Of particular note with regard to Mammoth is that while this cluster does have plenty of processing power its focus […]