Data center articles
Large-capacity hard drives are holding up well in data centers
Scientists make major breakthrough in molecular data storage
Apple to build data center in Iowa with completely renewable energy
Apple to build its first data center in China to comply with local law
AMD launches 32-core Epyc processor, looking to disrupt Intel's data center dominance
Intel's future technologies will arrive in server chips before PC CPUs
HP Enterprise shows off prototype of new computing architecture called "The Machine"
Building an Affordable 16-Core, 32-Thread Xeon Monster PC
#ThrowbackThursday Released in 2012 for a whopping $1,550, thousands of Xeon E5-2670 CPUs have hit the secondhand market as data centers upgraded their servers. This 4-year old CPU delivers 8 cores clocked at 2.6GHz with a 3.3GHz turbo frequency and a large 20MB L3 cache, but with supply overwhelming demand prices have plummeted. Or seen from another perspective: it's now possible to build an insanely affordable 16-core/32-thread beast for less than a flagship Core i7.
Here We Go Again: 40-Thread Xeon PC for less than a Broadwell-E Core i7
Following up to our popular 32-thread Xeon PC feature, we've been in the hunt for affordable Xeon processors based on more modern architectures. Our search put us on the trail of Intel's Xeon E5 2630 v4, a 10-core Broadwell-EP part (40 threads for 2 CPUs) that can be found for less - with a catch - so we put together a system to show off what's on offer here.