by Kirill Gindush | Sep 14, 2020 | Data Center, ICC News, ICC Solutions, IT Hardware, Server Talk, Tech & Innovation
When monitoring key elements of your server infrastructure, the main aim is to create alerts to detect hardware errors. E-mail alerts are a good example of this practice. When a hardware error is discovered in the Supermicro IPMI event log, there are many ways of...
by Betim Begolli | Jul 14, 2020 | Data Center, High Performance Computing, ICC News, ICC Solutions, IT Hardware, Power Draw, Server Talk, Tech & Innovation, Uncategorized
Today, I would like to talk about power hungry CPUs and “phantom” throttling, featuring 10980XE. Intel’s 10980XE can require more than 500+W to reliably run at overclock speeds surpassing ~4.7GHz. In our testing we found an issue that was more difficult to...
by Kirill Gindush | Jun 1, 2020 | Data Center, ICC News, ICC Solutions, IT Hardware, Server Talk, Tech & Innovation
This post will feature both a general overview of Intel software RAID vs. hardware RAID. The comparison will include performance numbers. PROS CONS No additional hardware required RAID levels are limited Cheaper cost No dedicated cache Very easy to use Slower...
by Betim Begolli | Apr 13, 2020 | Cooling, Data Center, High Performance Computing, ICC News, ICC Solutions, Server Talk, Tech & Innovation
At ICC we’ve now deployed the ICC AXIS™ R-725a. Testing on the AMD EPYC 7000 series in our lab showed an increase of ~.1GHz in performance per core on these high core count processors with liquid cooling vs. air. While that does not seem like a big number, it yields a...
by Marina Bashneva | Mar 23, 2020 | ICC News
To maximize the containment of COVID-19, the state of Illinois has issued a state-wide “stay at home” order as of Saturday, March 21, 2020. While the evolving COVID-19 situation has presented new challenges, ICC is well prepared to continue to respond with the best...
by Jeremy May | Aug 5, 2019 | High Performance Computing, ICC News, ICC Solutions, Industries, IT Hardware, Server Talk, Tech & Innovation
Helping to Understand the Mystery Of Linux System Load Averages. While load averages are a metric that are widely used for monitoring the health of a system. Quite a few organizations use this metric for capacity planing without fully understanding where the limits...
