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FlashSoft announced that it has secured $3 million in financing and used that opportunity to come out of hiding and provide a few details about its flash virtualization software, called FlashSoft SE.
The company uses software to enable SSDs and PCIe flash memory devices as server-tier read-write cache and accelerate the overall performance of databases and other applications on servers.
The software addresses a general cost and performance problem in data centers. While flash processes data much faster than hard drives, the cost is often prohibitive. However, Flash virtualization can cut the amount of necessary Flash memory significantly, while increasing the application performance by a factor of four to ten, FlashSoft claims.
It basically manages the data is most often and most likely used in a limited capacity of flash. The company believes that only 10% of available data needs to be kept close to the server and on flash, while 90% of data that is more than 90 days old may never be accessed and does not need expensive flash storage. The management of Flash memory requires RAM horsepower. However, the company said that 100 MB of RAM is good enough to manage 1 TB of flash.
FlashSoft SE is available for Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 R2 now and is expected to be released for Linux later this summer. The software requires a minimum SSD size of 8GB and works up to capacities of 1 TB. A free demo version can be download from the company's website.
Our team from Tom's Hardware Italy sent us some shots of what it found at SilverStone's booth at Computex 2011.
This is a concept case with an amazing 19 slot spaces. There you can see crammed inside are six dual-slot cards -- that's four GTX 480 and two GTX 580. Yes, it can play anything you throw at it.
This one has 9 slot spaces, three 120 mm fans, steel body, and a choice between aluminum or plastic front panel.
This one is a mini-ITX case with a steel body and aluminum front panel. 1 x 180 mm fan.
Micro ATX case, steel body, aluminum front panel. 1 x 180 mm fan, 1 x 120 mm fan.
These are meant for the living room, like in a HTPC. These two models differ mostly in bay configuration.
All aluminum-made passive PSU with no fan meant for servers and workstations.
1350 watt, 80 Plus Silver. Six rails for server mode and one rail for OC mode, with a switch. There's also a switch to increase the fan speed.
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AMD claims that SYSmark 2012 is "misleading" and doesn't offer "clear and reliable measurements." Ouch.
Tuesday AMD made it officially well-known that it has no plans to endorse BAPCo's upcoming SYSmark 2012 benchmark. In fact, America's #2 processor giant has resigned from the BAPCo organization altogether, and even hinted that SYSmark 2012 doesn't provide "clear and reliable measurements" and is "misleading." AMD's Nigel Dessau followed up with a little clarification on the company's stance Tuesday in his blog.
"The heart of our complaint is this: the SYSmark benchmark is not only comprised of unrepresentative workloads (workloads that ignore the importance of heterogeneous computing and, frankly, favor our competitor’s designs), but it actually generates misleading results that can lead to very poor purchasing decisions, causing governments worldwide to historically overspend somewhere in the area of approximately $8B!" he said.
Dessau went on to explain that AMD tried to work within the BAPCo consortium in order to get the next-generation benchmark, SYSmark 2012, correct. AMD even stressed that it needed to be open, transparent and processor-neutral. Unfortunately, that didn't happen.
"Our good intentions were met with an outcome that we believe does a disservice to the industry and our customers," he said. "We weren’t able to effect positive change within BAPCo, and the resulting benchmark continues to distort workload performance and offers even less transparency to end users."
That said, AMD pulled itself out of BAPCo and asked that the AMD brand be removed from marketing materials promoting SYSmark 2012. According to the company's official press release, it will only endorse benchmarks based on real-world computing models and software applications, and which provide useful and relevant information.
"AMD believes benchmarks should be constructed to provide unbiased results and be transparent to customers making decisions based on those results," AMD said in an official statement. "Currently, AMD is evaluating other benchmarking alternatives, including encouraging the creation of an industry consortium to establish an open benchmark to measure overall system performance."
"We are committed to working with likeminded companies that want to give consumers and business users an accurate, honest measure of what they can expect from their PCs and mobile devices," Dessau added.
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Tom's Hardware Germany shared these photos and specs of two new cases from Corsair that are slated for July.
Carbide 400R
· All-black case
· removable drive bays for 6 x 2.5“ or 3.5“ drives
· 6 x 5.25“ drive bays
· up to 10 Fans (6 x 120 or 140 mm, plus 4x 120), with dual already pre-installed 120 mm at roof of case
· Native USB 3.0 ports on front panel (no pass-through cable that loops around the back), along with Audio, FireWire and a switch for case lights
· Load-bearing handle on the top to carry the case around
· Eight expansion slot positions
· Has "popped out" side-panels on both sides; these recesses allow cables to be snaked behind the motherboard tray and install very large coolers
· MSRP: $99 USD
Carbide 500R
· Similar to 400R, but instead:
· 2 x 120 mm fans in front, 1 x 120 mm fan at rear and 1 x 200mm fan on side panel included
· Also, case has black/white or white/grey color scheme, no carrying handle
· MSRP: $129 USD
ForceGT SSD
· SandForce SF-2281 controller, SATA 6Gb/s
· Capacities of 120 and 240, with 60 OR 90 following later (to be decided)
· Uses synchronous NAND, which improves performance with incompressible data (according to Corsair)
· Performance according to spec sheet:
o 120 GB version: 555 MB/s sequential read / 515 MB/s sequential write; 85k IOPS (4k aligned)
o 240 GB version 555 MB/s sequential read / 525 MB/s sequential write; 85k IOPS (4k aligned)
· Pricing tbd, availability "later in June"
Vengeance RAM
· now available as low profile and low power versions (white = low power, 1.35V)
· Pricing tbd, availability "later in June"
Although SLI-certified AMD motherboards have been available for some time, Nvidia just released a set of beta drivers to unlock the requested feature.
Back in April, Nvidia's Tom Peterson revealed that the company was officially supporting SLI on motherboards playing host to AMD's 9-Series chipsets. Asus, Gigabyte, ASRock, and MSI were said to be among the first motherboard manufacturers to offer SLI support, with others arriving shortly.
"Long term gamers probably remember that for a long time AMD offered great high-end CPUs, but in recent years, AMD’s stature as the preferred gaming CPU fell by the wayside and Intel CPUs have been the gamers’ choice," Petersen explained. "For this reason, we’ve only licensed SLI for motherboards with Intel chipsets. We’ve been recently hearing chants of 'SLI for AMD CPUs,' and figured that now is a great time to do it."
Following the post, SLI-certified motherboards with AMD's 990FX, 990X and 970 chipsets began to appear on store shelves and online retailers, but the coveted feature still remained "locked" due to a lack of compatible drivers. That has now changed with the release of Nvidia's new GeForce 275.50 beta drivers, available starting Monday (release note - PDF)
As indicated, the new driver enables SLI technology on SLI-certified motherboards with AMD's 990FX, 990X and 970 chipsets. The new driver set also improves 3D Vision performance with Duke Nukem Forever with 3-way SLI and Quad SLI technology.
"With Release 275 drivers, the 3D Vision Controller driver is now included with all GPU driver installations," the notes read. "This driver package includes v275.33 3D Vision Controller driver. Users are no longer required to install a separate 3D Vision Controller driver or CD driver. For more information, please view this knowledgebase article for more information."
New 3D Vision game profiles were also added to the beta release including the Duke Nukem Forever demo, the Mars benchmark, Rise of the Immortals and Rusty Hearts. The Alice Madness Returns profile was also updated with a rating of "Good."
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I have to admit that I was hoping for much more news from ARM's participation in AMD's currently held Fusion software developer conference in Seattle.
There is the persistent rumor that AMD may be licensing ARM architecture to make its way into the smartphone tablet space, but there was no confirmation of such a move at the conference. Instead, ARM and AMD are partnering in the OpenCL space to promote the craetion of GPU-accelerated apps.
At its conference, AMD announced a set of new OpenCL development tools that cater specifically to its Fusion APUs. The most interesting part of this announcement is the fact it was made by Manju Hegde, AMD's corporate vice president of AMD's Fusion experience program. Some readers may remember Hegde as the founder and CEO of Ageia, the company that invented the PhysX chip. Ageia was acquired by Nvidia in early 2008 and Hegde is now at AMD pitching OpenCL support, which is in direct competition to Nvidia's CUDA.
ARM's Jem Davies delivered a keynote at AMD's Fusion event and while there are obvious competitive edges between ARM and x86 products, the executive stresses that ARM and x86 are the only remaining "relevant" CPU architectures. Davies also pitched a hybrid processor approach that outlined CPU cores, parallel arrays and circuits that are dedicated to very specific functions, which obviously would favor highly parallel software that is written in, for example, OpenCL. It is a somewhat surreal experience to see ARM speaking at AMD's (x86) developer event and AMD could have simply invited ARM to annoy Intel. To see the partnership evolve is interesting, but the benefit to developers at the event was very limited.
I still believe that there is much more to come and those AMD-ARM rumors have some substance.
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AMD is reviving its FX brand and expanding its Gaming Evolved program by adding new members, developer/publisher relations.
Tuesday during E3 2011, AMD announced that it's resurrecting the FX brand for its fastest processors and most powerful platforms, geared toward enthusiasts and "HD entertainment aficionados." The company also announced new members for its "Gaming Evolved" program including BioWare, Creative Assembly and Codemasters.
"AMD's FX brand will enable an over-the-top experience for PC enthusiasts," said Leslie Sobon, vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, AMD. "By combining an unlocked, native eight-core processor, the latest in chipset technology, and AMD's latest graphics cards, FX customers will enjoy an unrivaled feature set and amazing control over their PC's performance."
According to AMD, the first platform to earn the FX title, the "Scorpius" platform, will feature the now-available AMD 9-series chipset motherboards and AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series graphics cards, plus the upcoming "Zambezi" unlocked, native eight-core processor.
Tuesday the company also said that it's working closely with Eidos-Montreal to add support for AMD HD3D-capable hardware and AMD Eyefinity multi-monitor functionality in the upcoming game Deus Ex: Human Revolution for the PC. Other newfound partnerships with publishers and developers include Bioware (Dragon Age II), Creative Assembly (SHOGUN 2: Total War), and Codemasters (DiRT 3), the latter of which will include native support for DirectX 11, AMD Eyefinity and AMD Dual Graphics technologies.
"It's exciting that Deus Ex: Human Revolution is the first video game title optimized to natively utilize AMD HD3D-capable hardware," said Stephane D'Astous, general manager of Eidos-Montreal, a Square Enix studio. "Coupled with AMD Eyefinity functionality, PC gamers will be even more immersed in the action-rich gameplay and compelling storyline."
Naturally AMD will be showcasing all of its goods this week at E3 2011 including a demo of "Orcs Must Die!" from Robot Entertainment and the DirectX 11-enabled "Blacklight: Retribution" from Perfect World.
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This fanless cooler for 2.5-inch HDDs and SSDs features an aluminum chassis and thermal compound pads.
We all know that hard drives can get hot too, especially when we're thrashing platters with benchmarks, playing resource-hogging games or pushing large tombs of multimedia across multiple folders. Like the CPU and the GPU, the drive can take some user abuse, but also like its desktop/notebook comrades, sometimes it needs a little TLC to keep data running smoothly.
Recognizing the needs of the HDD and SSD, cooling expert Scythe has created a fanless cooler called the Himuro Mini. The drawback to this heat reliever is that it only supports 2.5-inch SATA or IDE drives – those looking to keep their 3.5-inch drives are directed to the larger Himuro HDD cooler. Both can fit within a 3.5-inch drive bay, but the Himuro Mini is designed to use its thermal conductive sheets as spacers to fit snug within the larger bay.
According to Scythe, the new cooler supports drives up to 15-mm thick. It's constructed of two high-quality aluminum shells which completely engulfs the drive in a makeshift 2-mm chassis. These two shells are lined with a thermal compound pad for maximum heat transference -- two additional thermal compound pads are even thrown into the mix to reduce vibrations (see left).
To round out the package, four screw blocks made of rubber also help reduce vibrations and can be adjusted to fit various bays. That said, consumers receive a reduction in heat and noise all in one ingenious design. The Himuro Mini is launching in Europe this week for 14,25 EUR (excl. VAT/TAX), and is expected to hit Scythe USA's branch shortly.