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  Intel DC D3700 1.6TB At Intel Cloud Day 2016 in San Francisco, California, we saw the release of two new dual port NVMe SSDs, the Intel DC D3600 and DC D3700 series. These drives are a new segment for Intel as they are dual port designs that can be accessed…

  Are you ready for the new Intel Xeon E5-2699 V4 performance king? We have been tirelessly working 6 systems over the past few weeks to provide benchmark results to the STH community. Expect many more benchmarks to follow of subsequent chips. With the launch of the Intel Xeon E5-2600 “Broadwell-EP”…

A question that is likely to get asked often in the next few weeks is: what is the speed difference between DDR4-2133 and DDR4-2400 RAM. We reported a few months ago that the official specs for some of the newer Xeon D parts listed DDR4-2400 as their supported memory speed,…

Earlier this week we posted updates to four of the Intel Xeon D-1500 series chips that had been added to ARK. This week I was with several Intel marketing and press relations folks for a workshop and mentioned that ARK was not fully updated. The D-1557 and D-1567 did not…

  Supermicro X10SDV-4C-TLN4F model identification With the Intel Xeon D line we have become accustomed to a longer duration between announce and general availability. We covered the massive new expansion in the Xeon D SKU lineup that happened in November 2015. For lack of a better name, we are calling…

Intel Xeon D-1518 - OpenSSL sign benchmark Today we have Intel Xeon D-1518 benchmarks. Our most popular topic in 2015 was Intel Xeon D and in November 2015 we heard about the Intel Xeon D wave 2 launch. Continuing the tradition of having the first benchmarks of the Xeon D-1540 and Xeon D-1520 we now…