It’s all of the great taste of Kickstarted sci-fi MMORPG Dual Universe but with your own personal spin: It’s myDU, the standalone version that offers private server hosting Novaquark announced in July, which has gone live today, August 19th. As we reported previously, this is a separate purchase that will set players back $35 (though […]
Later this year Intel is set to introduce its Xeon 6-branded processors, codenamed Granite Rapids (6x00P) and Sierra Forest (6x00E). And with it will come a new slew of server motherboards and pre-built server platforms to go with it. On the latter note, this will be the first generation where Intel won't be offering any pre-builts of its own, after selling that business off to MiTAC last year.
To that end, MiTAC and its subsidiary Tyan were at this year's event to demonstrate what they've been up to since acquiring Intel's server business unit, as well as to show off the server platforms they're developing for the Xeon 6 family. Altogether, the companies had two server platforms on display – a compact 2S system, and a larger 2S system with significant expansion capabilities – as well as a pair of single-socket designs from Tyan.
The most basic platform that MiTAC had to show is their TX86-E7148 (Katmai Pass), a half-width 1U system that's the successor to Intel's D50DNP platform. Katmai Pass has two CPU sockets, supports up to 2 TB of DDR5-6400 RDIMMs over 16 slots (8 per CPU), and has two low-profile PCIe 5.0 x16 slots. Like its predecessor, this platform is aimed at mainstream servers that do not need a lot of storage or room to house bulky add-in cards like AI accelerators.
The company's other platform is TX77A-E7142 (Deer Creek Pass), a considerably more serious offering that replaces Intel's M50FCP platform. This board can house up to 4 TB of DDR5-6400 RDIMMs over 32 slots (16 per CPU with 2DPC), four PCIe 5.0 x16 slots, one PCIe 5.0 x8 slot, two OCP 3.0 slots, and 24 hot-swap U.2 bays. Deer Creek Pass can be used both for general-purpose workloads, high-performance storage, as well as workloads that require GPUs or other special-purpose accelerators.
Meanwhile Tyan had the single-socket Thunder CX GC73A-B5660 on display. That system supports up to 2 TB of DDR5-6400 memory over 16 RDIMMs and offers two PCIe 5.0 x16 slots, one PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 slot, two OCP 3.0 slots, and 12 hot-swappable U.2 drive bays.
Finally, Tyan's Thunder HX S5662 is an HPC server board specifically designed to house multiple AI accelerators and other large PCIe cards. This board supports one Xeon 6 6700 processor, up to 1 TB of memory over eight DDR5-6400 RDIMMs, and has five tradiitonal PCIe 5.0 x16 slots as well as two PCIe 5.0 x2 M.2 slots for storage.
MiTAC is expected to start shipments of these new Xeon 6 motherboards in the coming months, as Intel rolls out its next-generation datacenter CPUs. Pricing of these platforms is unknown for now, but expect it to be comparable to existing servers.
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Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead says it has had to "cap" concurrent players to around 450,000 to "further improve server stability".
In a message posted to the game's Discord community, the team said it was "working around the clock to solve" the issue, and whilst it's been able to "mitigate" some of the causes, it was "still struggling to keep up with the scaling that is needed".
"Earlier tonight we had server-related issues with a concurrent player spike," the team said. "This lead [sic] to some mission payouts failing, some players being kicked to their ships, or being logged out.
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has apologised for ongoing server "capacity issues" and says it is working to "increase server capacity to accommodate all".
Following a pledge to give all players a 50 per cent XP and requisition bonus to compensate for "a problem" that's giving out incorrect rewards at the end of missions, Helldivers 2's concurrent Steam count continues to tick up, which has, in turn, seemingly had a significant impact on server stability.
"Despite our best efforts to increase server capacity to accommodate all of you who want to dive for Freedom, we are experiencing capacity issues," the team said in a statement posted to X/Twitter over the weekend.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League developer Rocksteady has confirmed that addressing its login and server issues remain the team's "top priority", but warned that it may "not be able to fix all those issues right away".
In a statement posted to the official website, Rocksteady said it could "hear and feel your frustration" about the ongoing issues, and agreed it was "unacceptable for the players" affected by the persistent problems, but said that because the issues didn't stem from one particular issue, it was "several smaller issues affecting players in different ways".
"For our upcoming patches we are looking to address login issues and server issues," the statement, signed "Axel and the Rocksteady Team" said. "And while we might not be able to fix all of those issues right away, I want to assure everyone: This is the top priority for us. We hear and feel your frustration and we can only agree, it’s unacceptable for the players who are affected by this.
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead says it has had to "cap" concurrent players to around 450,000 to "further improve server stability".
In a message posted to the game's Discord community, the team said it was "working around the clock to solve" the issue, and whilst it's been able to "mitigate" some of the causes, it was "still struggling to keep up with the scaling that is needed".
"Earlier tonight we had server-related issues with a concurrent player spike," the team said. "This lead [sic] to some mission payouts failing, some players being kicked to their ships, or being logged out.
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has apologised for ongoing server "capacity issues" and says it is working to "increase server capacity to accommodate all".
Following a pledge to give all players a 50 per cent XP and requisition bonus to compensate for "a problem" that's giving out incorrect rewards at the end of missions, Helldivers 2's concurrent Steam count continues to tick up, which has, in turn, seemingly had a significant impact on server stability.
"Despite our best efforts to increase server capacity to accommodate all of you who want to dive for Freedom, we are experiencing capacity issues," the team said in a statement posted to X/Twitter over the weekend.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League developer Rocksteady has confirmed that addressing its login and server issues remain the team's "top priority", but warned that it may "not be able to fix all those issues right away".
In a statement posted to the official website, Rocksteady said it could "hear and feel your frustration" about the ongoing issues, and agreed it was "unacceptable for the players" affected by the persistent problems, but said that because the issues didn't stem from one particular issue, it was "several smaller issues affecting players in different ways".
"For our upcoming patches we are looking to address login issues and server issues," the statement, signed "Axel and the Rocksteady Team" said. "And while we might not be able to fix all of those issues right away, I want to assure everyone: This is the top priority for us. We hear and feel your frustration and we can only agree, it’s unacceptable for the players who are affected by this.
Microsoft aims to reduce dependence on Nvidia's hardware with its own processors and networking gear, according to a report, with the founder of Juniper Networks and Fungible spearheading development.
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