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How the OCP NIC 3.0 is Making Hyperscale Data Centers Cooler

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September 20, 2019

Managing and storing more data has forced hyperscale data center companies to reexamine not just how they build a data center but also the thousands of servers housed inside – including the connectors for server components.

Hyperscale data centers have the purchasing power and platform to work directly with manufacturers and engineer the optimized server. Rather than figuring out how to use the latest widget designed for the mainstream data center market, hyperscale data center companies are designing the...

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BER test method uses real data

March 2, 2015

Today's methods for BER (bit-error-rate) testing of high-speed serial links such as PCIe and SATA rely on predetermined patterns that don't represent real-world situations. These patterns use a defined amount of jitter sent through a precise channel from a DUT's transmitter to its receiver; the DUT runs in a loopback state. Obtaining a valid BER measurement requires at least a trillion bits. The BER measurement is difficult to perform because of the test equipment needed and the setup to properly...

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Modernization of mobile storage

February 24, 2015

At the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), we are fortunate to be able to follow technology developments in a number of areas, and watch as they go from sketches on a whiteboard to actual shipping products.

Sometimes these developments happen in their own bubbles, other times there are not so coincidental coincidences, where several industries are able to take advantage of technology originally developed for one community. We may be watching that happen right now as technologies...

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Samsung XS1715 1.6TB 2.5-inch NVMe PCIe Enterprise SSD Review

October 24, 2014

Samsung has many firsts under their belt, with the world's first 3D NAND and 3bit MLC (TLC) products leading the way. Pairing innovative hardware with a new interface technology capitalizes on the performance advantages of flash storage. Samsung also led the NVMe race with the XS1715, the industry's first certified product (5/31/2013) on the UNH-IOL NVMe Test Consortiums Integrators List (IL).

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PCIe Disk Drive Needs New Tests?

August 5, 2014

With the upcoming release of PCIe Gen3 disk drive products using the SFF-8639 connector (due out this year), discussions at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) naturally turn to how these products will be tested.

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New Consortium Dedicated to PCIe

August 21, 2013

The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), an independent provider of broad-based testing and standards conformance services for the networking industry, announced the laboratory is currently accepting enterprise server and storage companies as members of a new consortium dedicated to PCIe - a storage technology that accelerates performance of demanding, data-intensive enterprise and data center applications.

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