Posts by iPhonePhan

All is swell at Dell: Look, first storage share gain since closing EMC deal

Re: I have a stupid question

If you look at their IDC statistics, their growth was in mainstream revenue, meaning that this is NOT attributed to a hyperscale deal, and is reflective of traditional customers (SME, Gov, Fed, Enterprise, etc...). Something is working for them...

Cisco turns to AMD Epyc for the first time in new UCS model

Re: Is it called the Anti-trust edition?

I love it when people with no understanding of the industry, or clearly the CPU's themselves, feel they can spit as if it were the year 2000.... (hello over there grandpa! good to see you're still kicking!).

Just because CISCO doesn't have an AMD based CPU, it doesn't mean they would be liable to an anti-trust lawsuit. Learn the law.

Second, it's obvious that the AMD EPYC CPUs are fantastic at some workloads, but miserable at others, due to the SoC architecture - I have tested most of the dual and single socket configurations for a range of HPC workloads, and found that they crush Intel on CFD/CAD simulations.

Remember, these R&D departments think long term, and AMD is thinking long term too! It's no secret to see they are playing the long game for a change, and eventually they will steal significant share from Intel, but not with EPYC version 1.

Swinburne Uni slings SGI, picks DellTel for new 4,140 core super

Ouch! You sound like my local HPE rep this afternoon! Good to see Swinburne putting investment into Infrastructure that will support SKA data as the article said, but more interesting is the mention of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for gravitational wave research. That in itself is the interesting piece for us arm chair scientists!