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July 2015 |
Compucon CPD Program
5 August 2015 Wednesday
Compucon House Albany
Compucon 1 and II Parallel Operations
4:00 - 5:00pm Biggest PC Industry Movements & Our Peer Group (TN)
5:00 - 6:00pm Technology Introductions in 2015 H2 (Edmond)
6:00 - 7:30pm Wine and Cheese
Biggest PC Industry Movements & Our Peer Group
Intel shocked the world in June 2015 by paying a price to buy a company that does not operate in the PC industry for 8 times of the annual turnover of the company. Assume that the company being bought makes a net profit of 20% consistently which would make Warren Buffet mouth-watering. The price Intel pays would take 40 years to recover. Would you invest your money in a share market stock that would take 40 years to recover? How should we read into this event? This seminar session will read into this event as well as revealing a product portfolio from the biggest system integrator in the world (not Intel) that a small operation in Albany is planning to do. It is a classic David and Goliath scenario, and one that our peer group would share the excitement. As disclosed in the MYM-C4SKA Colloquium held in AUT on 2015-0708 attended by about 20 peers from our groups including the HPC web forum community and another 20 other people, our project is on Technology Readiness Level 4. What does this means? Are we going to succeed and when? Technology is the depth dimension and our peer group is the width dimension. Do we have enough width coverage to match the efforts on technology development? We will allocate at least 20 minutes this time to talk about how peers may develop into software delivery providers, site service providers, vertical market system integrators, and front end managers in the next generation high performance computing era.
Technology Introductions in 2015 H2
The standard Intel technology introduction tick-tock cycle is moving ahead although at a reduced pace than previously. The cycle is largely prescribed by Moore’s Law. Should we expect doubling of transistor density and thus computation performance again (over 18, 24 or even 30 months)? Xeon is a brand for servers and Core for desktops. We have 3 levels of Cores (3, 5 and 7) and have E3, E5, E7 and more levels of Xeon. They have different naming conventions for generation and capabilities. We will explain what will be introduced and where each will go into our system portfolio. On the peripheral side, SSD is under the limelight as it is progressing from SATA interface to a direct PCIe interface which provides much higher headroom for data throughputs. The popularity of SSD due to its lower latency and higher data transfer speed compared to HDD is established. A new form factor will be introduced. It is smaller than 2.5” and hopefully cheaper. USB is getting faster. IPMI is getting more capable. These PC technologies are hot and coming.
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Key features IO Port Diagram
AM3+ based Motherboard with EPU power optimization.
- AM3+ CPU Support Ready
- Turbo Key- Touch-n-Boost！
- ASUS EPU- System Level Energy Saving
- Anti-Surge-Full-time Power Guardian-Make System Free From Risk
- Core Unlocker-Unleash True Core Performance Intelligently
- ALL solid capacitor - 100% All High-quality Conductive Polymer Capacitors
Specifications
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AMD AM3+ FX™/Phenom™ II/Athlon™ II/Sempron™ 100 Series Processors
Supports CPU up to 140 W
AMD Cool 'n' Quiet™ Technology
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| Chipset |
AMD 760G (780L)/SB710
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| System Bus |
Up to 5.2 GT/s HyperTransport™ 3 |
| Memory |
4 x DIMM, Max. 32GB, DDR3 2000(O.C.)/1866(O.C.)/1800(O.C.)/
1600(O.C.)/1333/1066 MHz ECC, Non-ECC, Un-buffered Memory
Dual Channel Memory Architecture
* Due to OS limitation, when installing total memory of 4GB capacity or more, Windows®
32-bit operation system may only recognize less than 3GB.
Install a 64-bit Windows® OS when you want to install 4GB or more memory on the motherboard.
* AMD FX Series CPU on this motherboard supports up to DDR3 1866MHz as its standard
memory frequency.
* AMD AM3 100 and 200 series CPU support up to DDR3 1066MHz.
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Graphic
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Integrated ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 GPU
Multi-VGA output support : HDMI/DVI/RGB ports *1
- Supports HDMI with max. resolution 1920 x 1200 @ 60 Hz
- Supports DVI with max. resolution 2560 x 1600 @ 60 Hz
- Supports RGB with max. resolution 2560 x 1440 @ 75 Hz
Maximum shared memory of 1024 MB
Hybrid CrossFireX™ Support
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1 x PCIe x16
1 x PCIe x1
2 x PCI
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| Storage |
Built-in Controller :
6 x SATA 3Gb/s port(s), blue
Support Raid 0, 1, 10, JBOD |
| LAN |
Realtek®, 1 x Gigabit LAN Controller(s)
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| Audio |
VIA VT1708S 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC
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| USB |
Built-in Controller :
10 x USB 2.0 port(s) (4 at back panel, black, 6 at mid-board)
Built-in Controller :
2 x USB 3.0 port(s) (2 at back panel, blue) |
| Back Panel I/O Ports |
1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse combo port(s)
1 x DVI
1 x D-Sub
1 x HDMI
1 x LAN (RJ45) port(s)
2 x USB 3.0
4 x USB 2.0
1 x Optical S/PDIF out
6 x Audio jack(s)
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3 x USB 2.0 connector(s) support(s) additional 6 USB 2.0 port(s)
1 x COM port(s) connector(s)
6 x SATA 3Gb/s connector(s)
1 x CPU Fan connector(s)
1 x Chassis Fan connector(s)
1 x S/PDIF out header(s)
1 x 24-pin EATX Power connector(s)
1 x 4-pin ATX 12V Power connector(s)
1 x parallel port connector(s)
1 x Front panel audio connector(s) (AAFP)
1 x System panel(s)
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uATX Form Factor
9.6 inch x 9.6 inch ( 24.4 cm x 24.4 cm )Micro ATX Form Factor
9.6 inch x 9.6 inch ( 24.4 cm x 24.4 cm ) |
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July 2015 |
Recently we have encountered an issue whereby a particularly crafted email sent from Shelagh at SOHO Systems or Greg at Moore PC causes Sharron's Outlook to crash immediately on startup when it tries to download that particular email.
We do not fully understand the problem at this stage but a quick workaround is to read the mail on the Linux mail server, and delete it from Sharron's mailbox (or whoever's mail box if it begins to affect other people). Daryl suggests that it is a compatibility issue or bug that is affecting our outdated mail server implementation or Outlook 2003. At the same time we have been advised by Shelagh that SOHO systems have recently migrated across to Office 365.
Procedure for deleting a mail:
- SSH to rakitu.cnz.local port 22 (with Putty)
- Login as root
- Password is our server password (newer version)
- cd /var/spool/imap/user/<user mailbox>
- ls -la to view files
- more <filename> to read contents
- cp <filename> /tmp/ to make a copy of it
- telnet localhost 110
- user <mailbox name>
- pass <mailbox password>
- list
- dele <index number of email>
- quit
- exit
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June 2015 |
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The 2 CPU models named in the title above were chosen because the first one is the base CPU for Compucon Workgroup Server SX-E3 and the second one is for SX-E5.
Therefore this article explains how to choose SX-E3 or SX-E5 for our business customer's applications.
Back in 2012, this part of the Technology Park discussed the differences between E5-2600 (which Compucon Platinum DX servers used) and E5-2400 (which other brands of servers used for pricing appeal).
In brief, 2400 is the junior counterpart of 2600. However, E3-1200 and E5-2600 seem to be miles apart and why did Compucon choose these 2 Xeon options for Workgroup Server?
Indeed, there are E5-1600 for single socket and E5-2400 dual socket junior in between. Since WGS SX-E5 is still based on single socket Xeon, why did Compucon settle on a high end dual socket capable E5-2600 Xeon?
Please see this short description of the different features between the chosen Xeons.
WGS-E3 (Xeon E3-1220v3): 4 cores/4 threads, 8MB L3 cache, 4 slots for DDR3 memory on the motherboard, dual channel memory transfer, 20 PCIe lane controller within the CPU.
WGS-E5 (Xeon E5-2620v3): 6 cores/12 threads, 15MB L3 cache, 8 slots for DDR4 memory on the motherboard, quad channel memory transfer, 28 PCIe lane controller within the CPU, and more PCIe slots on the motherboard. Note that some higher E5-2600 CPU models provide 40 PCIe lanes.
We can see that the differences are quite obvious and these 2 WGS models are not really in the same league. We offer meaningful choices to our customers. Fitness for Purpose. Cost of Ownership.
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June 2015 |
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The 2 CPU models named in the title above were chosen because the first one is the base CPU for Compucon Workgroup Server SX-E3 and the second one is for SX-E5.
Therefore this article explains how to choose SX-E3 or SX-E5 for our business customer's applications.
Back in 2012, this part of the Technology Park discussed the differences between E5-2600 (which Compucon Platinum DX servers used) and E5-2400 (which other brands of servers used for pricing appeal).
In brief, 2400 is the junior counterpart of 2600. However, E3-1200 and E5-2600 seem to be miles apart and why did Compucon choose these 2 Xeon options for Workgroup Server?
Indeed, there are E5-1600 for single socket and E5-2400 dual socket junior in between. Since WGS SX-E5 is still based on single socket Xeon, why did Compucon settle on a high end dual socket capable E5-2600 Xeon?
Please see this short description of the different features between the chosen Xeons.
WGS-E3 (Xeon E3-1220v3): 4 cores/4 threads, 8MB L3 cache, 4 slots for DDR3 memory on the motherboard, dual channel memory transfer, 20 PCIe lane controller within the CPU.
WGS-E5 (Xeon E5-2620v3): 6 cores/12 threads, 15MB L3 cache, 8 slots for DDR4 memory on the motherboard, quad channel memory transfer, 28 PCIe lane controller within the CPU, and more PCIe slots on the motherboard. Note that some higher E5-2600 CPU models provide 40 PCIe lanes.
We can see that the differences are quite obvious and these 2 WGS models are not really in the same league. We offer meaningful choices to our customers. Fitness for Purpose. Cost of Ownership.
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