Patrick-STH

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by Patrick-STH 2y ago
There is not an EPYC 7xx4. EPYC 8004 is Siena. We reviewed an ASRock Rack Siena platform this week actually. We had this in the Genoa launch piece but AMD largely kept $/core constant between Milan and Genoa. Milan is still being sold
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by Patrick-STH 2y ago
Yea, it looks better for when we put it on screen in videos though.
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by Patrick-STH 2y ago
Easy one would be the P part is single socket only. I was browsing one day looking for barebones to throw in one of our clusters and saw Newegg was selling these 1U servers cheap ($2200-2300) Usually with AMD desktop and server CPUs buying
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by Patrick-STH 2y ago
We bought Newegg out of all the new Tyan systems they had in stock. I was hoping to do a piece on them, but they must have had few in inventory
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by Patrick-STH 3y ago
Good one. These presentations are like 30 min each so it is hard to stay on top of all of them.
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by Patrick-STH 3y ago
Thanks. We will have more in a bit, and may not get to all of them. I was talking to lots of folks that came to say hi today. Trying to get at least a good portion of these done this week.
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by Patrick-STH 3y ago
I am not going ot post our own links, but last week we did the UM790 and we have the GTR7 Pro review coming as well.
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by Patrick-STH 3y ago
Yes. I think that is a solid NUC alternative with one exception: the lack of USB4/ Thunderbolt as standard. Intel was very good about including TB on its NUC line and also did a better job upgrading to 2.5GbE.
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by Patrick-STH 3y ago
Yes. We have done pieces on the BlueField-2 DPUs running Ubuntu and doing things like running ZFS and iSCSI off of the DPU's Arm cores as well. This is the BlueField-3 base, so a faster Arm core complex and more memory bandwidth.
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by Patrick-STH 3y ago
Sometimes 2-3 tries but that is also from pacing. I usually have my laptop out to reference quickly but no prompter. People can tell when I read from one, so I have just had to get comfortable without reading.
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by Patrick-STH 3y ago
We are going to have a Dell PowerEdge review tomorrow. We call that a server or more than one servers not server units so that would feel strange to me.
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by Patrick-STH 3y ago
Well that was the part number for the NVMe expansion kit. TBH that is one of the hardest things about doing server reviews on YouTube... The model names
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by Patrick-STH 3y ago
It is hard to title since they are stopping servers, but not server CPUs.
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by Patrick-STH 3y ago
This is servers, the systems like Dell, Supermicro, and others sell, not server CPUs (aka Xeons)
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by Patrick-STH 3y ago
That is why I said servers not Xeon or chip. I was not sure how else to describe it other than servers since that is what is being sold.
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by Patrick-STH 4y ago
Hi!
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by Patrick-STH 4y ago
Later in 2023. We will cover it like we did with Milan-X.
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by Patrick-STH 4y ago
Now that is a throwback! That old logo was created with GIMP at a table outside NetApp. STH started at a time when the SMB market (and VERY high-end homes) were using Dell, HP, and IBM rackmount gear off-lease. The original STH idea came fr
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by Patrick-STH 4y ago
The MI300 will compete more with Grace Hopper than with the H100 SXM5. We will be covering and showing both later this year.
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by Patrick-STH 4y ago
It is in the "About" page :-) I always get confused by why folks ask why we have server content. The Wall Street Journal covers more than just one road in NYC.
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by Patrick-STH 4y ago
STH has been around for 14 years and so we have tested these big servers from the P100 days (see our DeepLearning12 build) and newer. Home was the /home/ directory in Linux. We do have some content for homes. Check out our TinyMin
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by Patrick-STH 4y ago
Good catch. Fixed
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by Patrick-STH 4y ago
There are a few big ones: - The CUDA license does not allow you to use GeForce in the data center. In the US it has become less popular, but if you look at our Inspur AIStation piece, that was a cluster located in China with GeForce cards.
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by Patrick-STH 4y ago
This is a crazy oversimplification, but let me take a shot. The difference to others is easily a large "novel size" discussion. Most training SoCs are focused on building something the size of an NVIDIA GPU, but designed for ML ve
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by Patrick-STH 4y ago
That one was an eye opener for me too.
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by Patrick-STH 6y ago
Totally correct. I mention that a bit in the video as well. Also - I do not view this as an AWS v. Colo. We use AWS for some services as well so it is a specific part of the workload we run (not just WP) that is in our hosting cluster. And
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by Patrick-STH 6y ago
Very little, but that is probably because we cover the server industry in-depth with reviews and such. I mentioned a bit that that knowledge is key. This is our cost analysis and not going to be the same for everyone.
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by Patrick-STH 6y ago
That may be true. We grow 20-30% Y/Y which is not as big as many other places (but is more than most others in our space.) 20-30% growth we handle with refresh cycles since we have extra capacity.
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by Patrick-STH 6y ago
100%. We had 11 months where nobody touched the racks as an example and the visit 11 months later was the one to physically get a tool I had left there. I mentioned I even track drive time.
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by Patrick-STH 6y ago
We include in our "Hardware Costs" having extra node and spares. For example, we keep a full spare node in the DC as well as spares.

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