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Samsung Develops High-Performance PCIe 5.0 SSD for Enterprise Servers
Samsung today announced that it has developed the PM1743 SSD for enterprise servers, integrating the PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) 5.0 interface with Samsung’s advanced sixth-generation V-NAND. PCIe 5.0 offers a bandwidth of 32 gigatransfers per second (GT/s), doubling that of PCIe 4.0. Samsung’s PM1743 will feature a sequential read speed of up to 13,000…
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Fujitsu to build one of the largest-scale supercomputers in Japan specializing in AI research
Fujitsu has received RIKEN‘s order for the Deep learning system, which in terms of operations will be one of the largest-scale supercomputers in Japan specializing in AI research. The RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project will use the new system, scheduled to go online in April 2017, as a platform to accelerate R&D into AI…
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Mitsubishi Electric develops high-speed training algorithm for deep learning
Mitsubishi Electric has developed a high-speed training algorithm for deep learning that incorporates necessary inference functions for identification, recognition and prediction of unknown facts based on known facts. The new algorithm is expected to simplify the implementation of deep learning in vehicles, industrial robots and other machinery by drastically reducing memory usage and the computational…
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Fujitsu and Socionext Develop World’s Lowest Power Consumption 56 Gbps Transceiver Circuit
Fujitsu and Socionext today announced that they have developed the world’s lowest power-consuming transceiver circuit that achieves communications speeds of 56 Gbps per channel. Compared to previous levels, this essentially doubles the speed of data transfers between semiconductor chips, used in servers and switches, and optical modules. Fujitsu and Socionext developed a new timing detection…
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Toshiba Announces PX04SL series SAS eSSD optimized for data warehousing, web servers, media streaming and video on demand
Toshiba today announced the availability of a new very read-intensive, enterprise SAS solid state drive (SSD) – the PX04SL series. The PX04SL series is optimized for read-intensive application workloads such as data warehousing, web servers, media streaming and video on demand (VOD). The PX04SL can offer the most cost-effective solutions in Toshiba’s PX04S generation of…
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Fujitsu Develops Optical Transmission Technology to Double Communications Distance between Servers
Fujitsu today announced the development of technology that doubles the maximum distance of optical communications between servers to 200 meters while using conventional fiber-optic cabling. In a distributed-computing system, adding servers is a way to increase the system’s overall processing capacity. However, as the floor space of datacenters gets bigger to accommodate more servers, a…
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Fujitsu Laboratories Develops 56 Gbps Receiver Circuit for Communications between CPUs
Fujitsu Laboratories today announced the development of a receiver circuit capable of receiving communications at 56 Gbps. This marks the world’s fastest data communications between CPUs equipped in next-generation servers. In recent years, raising data-processing speeds in servers has meant increasing CPU performance, together with boosting the speed of data communications between chips, such as…
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Toshiba announces 5TB enterprise hard disk drives
Toshiba Electronics Europe today announced the MC04ACAxxx series of enterprise high-capacity hard disk drives designed for bulk storage systems and servers supporting cloud-based applications and analytic workloads. With a 3.5-inch form factor, the MC04ACAxxx series delivers up to 5TB of storage with 7,200 rotations per minute (RPM) performance making the MC04ACAxxx series suitable for workloads…
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Samsung announces mass production of the most advanced DDR4 memory
Samsung today announced that it is mass producing the most advanced DDR4 memory, for enterprise servers in next-generation data centers. With the introduction of these high-performances, high-density DDR4 modules, Samsung can better support the need for advanced DDR4 in rapidly expanding, large-scale data centers and other enterprise server applications. In next-generation enterprise servers, the use…
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Fujitsu develops world’s first IaaS Platform technology for on-demand physical servers
Fujitsu today announced that it has developed a platform technology for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for on-demand physical servers that are configured to a user’s needs and can be provided in ten minutes. This technology is the first of its kind in the world. Currently, physical IaaS, or physical server-hosting services, which provides physical…
