The XS1930-10 and XS1930-12HP switches feature what the company claims is an industry first-- 5-colour LEDs providing at-a-glance port speed and information. Both are multi-gigabit switches with support for variable speeds, allowing them to address the data speed requirements of various applications and devices throughout the office. Management comes through either the Zyxel Nebula Cloud Management system or operation in standalone mode, and port speeds range from 100Mbps to 10Gbps over standard ethernet cable.

Hailing from Monash, Swinburne and RMIT universities, the researchers managed to create such a connection using a "micro-comb." According to the paper detailing the experiment, the micro-comb “generates very sharp and equidistant frequency lines in a tiny microphotonic chip.” In a few words, the micro-comb loops light around a ring to produce 80 beams at various infrared wavelengths. Each beam carries a stream of data, and since all the wavelengths of light are all correlated, the data streams could be "packed" tightly together using nearly all the available light spectrum.

The company claims the A100 is the largest 7nm-based processor, carrying over 54 billion transistors. It includes 3rd generation Tensor Cores with TF32, a math format to accelerate single-precision AI training, and uses structural sparsity acceleration for higher performance. A multi-instance GPU (MIG) allows customers to partition a single A100 into as many as seven independent GPUs, each with own resources, while 3rd generation NVLink technology doubles the high-speed connectivity between GPUs, turning A100 servers into one giant GPU.

The two servers support up to 128 cores, together with up to 4TB of DDR4 memory. Lenovo adds the adoption of PCIe 4.0 technology delivers double the I/O bandwidth of previous-generation servers, eliminating potential bottlenecks and increasing network capabilities. The company adds the servers are ideal for financial services, retail and manufacturing applications, as well as customers wanting to run performance-sensitive workloads at higher speeds with lower total cost of ownership.

DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0 fully enables all the features of the latest version of the DisplayPort standard (version 2.0) through the USB-C connector. Through Alt Mode, the USB-C connector can transmit up to 80Gbps of DisplayPort video data utilising all four high-speed lanes in the cables, or up to 40Gbps with simultaneous SuperSpeed USB data delivery.

The TI-PG102F is a 10-port model, while the TI-PG62F is 6-port. The two feature a hardened IP30-rated metal housing and are resistant to high degrees of vibration and shock. They are also rated to operate in high heat and extreme lows, specifically in temperatures ranging from -40° to 75°C. As such, they are ideal for rugged environments such as automation networks, IP surveillance systems and IoT applications.

The analyst divides the converged systems market in 3 segments-- reference & integrated infrastructure, integrated platforms and hyperconverged systems. Certified reference systems & integrated infrastructure revenues total $1.3bn in Q4 2019, a -18.5% Y-o-Y decline even as they represent 30.7% of all converged systems revenues. Integrated platforms are up by 0.1% in Q4 2019, generating revenues worth $620m and making 14.8% of total market revenues.

Supermicro NGC-ready systems allow customers to train AI models using Nvidia V100 Tensor core GPUs and to perform inference using T4 Tensor core GPUs. NGC hosts GPU-optimised software containers for deep learning, machine learning and HPC applications, pre-trained models and SDKs able to run anywhere the Supermicro NGC-ready systems are deployed, be it datacentres, cloud, edge micro-datacentres or distributed remote locations as environment-resilient and secured Nvidia-ready for edge servers powered by the Nvidia EGX intelligent edge platform.

"The market returned to growth with a very strong Q4 2019 result, largely driven by a return of demand from hyperscalers,” the analyst says. “However, the outlook for the worldwide server market in 2020 is subject to great uncertainty. The impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is expected to temper forecast growth. Although demand from the hyperscale segment is expected to continue through H1 2020, other buying organisations’ reactions will vary.”

The solution frees up floor space by placing cooling at the bottom of any rack. Customers can integrate it into EcoStruxure, enabling global performance visibility complete with a 24x7 service bureau using the EcoStruxure IT Expert and Asset Advisor datacentre management (DCIM) software. Variable capacity offers continuous and automatic fan and compressor speed modulation in order to match airflow requirements. The system delivers 0.5 to 3.5kW of cooling, maximising efficiency and lowering operational costs.