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What is the most optimal ARM server?
As business leaders continue their search for ways to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of their IT infrastructure while also reducing the overall energy consumption, system integrators like ICC are looking to other processing lines outside of the traditional...
Hosting Companies and Data Center Server Density Challenges
Hosting companies and web hosting providers are continually battling to maximize density as they deploy racks. This is due to the nature of colocation pricing models and power increases over time. Over the last decade, server manufacturers have had wild success...
RAID Updates in 2021
New RAID updates in 2021 With the emergence of PCIe drives as a new way of optimizing speeds in the storage stack, many vendors continue to update their RAID cards to include software functionality that enhances the RAID experience. The PCIe bandwidth is much...
RAID 1, 5, 6, 10 Explained in Simple Terms
A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (“RAID”) is a method in which you can use several disks in order to obtain performance and redundancy benefits. There are several layouts and they are denoted by numbers. Said numbers can be stacked for those same effects as...
FAQ | Intel Ice Lake Processors
FAQ About 3rd Gen Intel Scalable Processors (Ice Lake) Intel Ice Lake Scalable Processors (SP) is the latest generation of Intel's Xeon Scalable line. One of the most important elements of Intel Ice Lake SP is the 10nm processes which allow for Intel to increase its...
Zero Latency in High Frequency Trading (HFT) Solutions
High Frequency Trading (HFT) is all about speed and getting as close to zero latency as possible. The faster you can run trading strategies and algorithms for analyzing price discrepancies and executing trade orders, the higher your chances are of winning against the...
High Frequency Trading (HFT) Updates in 2021
In 2021, High Frequency Trading (HFT) industry market size, measured by revenue has reached over $6 billion. High Frequency Trading needs and the HFT servers that help to address these needs by generating millions in profits a fraction of a cent at a time,...
FAQ | AMD Processors
FAQ about AMD Epyc, Ryzen and Zen 3 Processors As AMD was intensifying its competitiveness vs Intel, AMD decided to go for an aggressive development cycle and use a 7nm process. With just under 20% more Instructions Per Cycle, it is a serious upgrade for most use...
FAQ | NVIDIA GPUs
FAQ about NVIDIA GPUs Based on current reviews and 3DMark Graphics scores, the RTX 3090 is the best graphics Nvidia 3000 series graphics card. Nvidia introduced its new range of 3000 series cards in September 2020. Nvidia performance mode inside 3D settings. In the...
FAQ | AMD GPUs
FAQ about AMD GPUsBased on current reviews and 3DMark Graphics scores, the 6900 XT is the best AMD 6000 series graphics card.Zen 3 CPUs were launched on November 5th 2020Inside of your AMD Radeon settings, you can select a “High Performance” graphics setting under the...
FAQ | Intel Rocket Lake Processors
FAQ about Intel Rocket Lake-S Processor One of the main improvements in the Intel Rocket Lake line is the Cypress Cove microarchitecture. Not only have they improved the Xe Graphics (32 execution units) but Intel also has increased relative performance as well as the...
FAQ | GPU Servers
GPU Servers FAQGraphics cards are a critical pieces of hardware not just for gamers but for intensive business operations such as Machine Learning and AI. ICC specialized in specific business use cases for GPUs. Whether it be transcoding, machine learning, artificial...