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Cisco Nexus 9000 series

Deployment scenarios The Cisco Nexus 9500 Series Switches support various deployment scenarios: ā—     Spine nodes in a spine-leaf fabric ā—     Core or aggregation node in an L2/L3 network ā—     Border gateway in a L2/L3 network Spine-leaf fabric architecture The high port-density and ability to support multispeed ports on the same chassis make the Cisco Nexus 9500 Series Switches … Read more

Cisco Nexus – Port Channel Compatibility Requirements

switch# show port-channel compatibility-parameters port mode Members must have the same port mode configured, either E,F or AUTO. Ifthey are configured in AUTO port mode, they have to negotiate E or F modewhen they come up. If a member negotiates a different mode, it will besuspended. speed Members must have the same speed configured. If … Read more

AMD’s Server CPU market share raises to 8.9% in Q1 2021, biggest gain against Intel since 2006

As per the Mercury Research report, AMD server CPU market share reaches 8.9% in Q1 2021 and analysts predict that this growth trend will continue in the coming months. Last time, AMD saw it’s server CPU market share peak in 2006 with the success of its 64-bit Opteron processors. In 2006, AMD’s server CPU market … Read more

NVIDIA Grace – First data center CPU from NVIDIA

NVIDIA is building ARM-based processor code name ‘GRACE’ which targets the AI and HPC communities. After AWS’s Graviton processor, it seems ARM is making serious inroads into the data center and cloud segments. NVIDIA announced its first data center CPU, an Arm-based processor that will deliver 10x the performance of todayā€™s fastest servers on the … Read more

ARM in the Data Center

AWS Graviton processors are custom built by Amazon Web Services using 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores to deliver the best price performance for your cloud workloads running in Amazon EC2. Amazon EC2 provides the broadest and deepest portfolio of compute instances, including many that are powered by latest-generation Intel and AMD processors. AWS Graviton processors add … Read more

Japan’s Fugaku Retains Title as World’s Fastest Supercomputer

Fujitsu Limited Tokyo, November 17, 2020 The supercomputer Fugaku, which is being developed jointly by RIKEN and Fujitsu Limited based on ArmĀ® technology, has again taken the top spot on the major high-performance computer rankings, including the Top500 list, in all of the rankings posting much higher scores than the runners-up. The other rankings are … Read more