The Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit 2018 sees Seagate demonstrate the Exos X14-- a helium-based 14TB enterprise HDD promising "the industry’s lowest power consumption, smallest footprint and best performance in its class."
The Exos X14 comes in the standard 3.5-inch format and features "Mach.2," an actuator technology allowing it to reach 480MB/s of sequential throughput. Recording comes through Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR), a technology using tiny lasers to heat the recording surface to over 400°C for a split second. It allows for increasingly dense recording capacity, if with some endurance and reliability concerns. However Seagate insists its HAMR implementation is more than reliable, allowing for 6000 hours of data transfers (or over 3.2 petabytes of data).
Through the acquisition, Plantronics hopes to "become the partner of choice for the communications and collaboration ecosystem," with the "broadest portfolio" of UCC products and services. It also predicts the deal will bring about annual run-rate cost synergies of $75 million within a year after the transaction closes on Q3 2018.
As a followup to the DGX-1, the DGX-2 carries x16 fully interconnected Tesla V100 32GB GPUs (double the amount of the 2017 DGX-1). It also includes up to 1.5TB of system memory, 30/60TB of NVMe storage, InfiniBand or 100GBe networking and x2 Xeon Platinum processors. Tying the GPUs together is what Nvidia calls "NVSwitch," an interconnect fabric allowing the GPUs to communicate with each other in the system at 300GB/s, making 14TB/s of aggregate system bandwidth.
The camera is controllable remotely via RS323 over ethernet cable or RS422 over twisted pair, and uses common protocols for compatibility with most integrated control systems. It offers multiple outputs, including HD-SDI (3G) and HDMI (DVI), and many broadcast adjustable settings such as white balance, exposure, iris, gamma and black level. The pan-tilt range spans 340-degrees horizontally and 120-degrees vertically, with simultaneous 4D control of pan, tilt, zoom and focus.
CSI is an API between container orchestrators and storage providers allowing a consistent runtime experience regardless of container orchestrator or storage provider used. Available in Kubernetes 1.10 as a beta, it should allow for easier installation of new plugins for 3rd party providers that can be developed outside the core Kubernetes codebase.
