Desktop Computer Technology Powers America's Next Fighter Plane 

What commonplace desktop computing and data storage solutions technology is being used in the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter plane? You might first think about potential computer aided engineering (CAE) systems such as in the Nexlink 7900 series workstation, for advanced modeling techniques used in the design phase. As a powerful CAE design workstation the Nexlink 7900 is a great choice for complex engineering projects such as aerospace engineering, however a more basic inclusion of advanced hardware is being implemented in the F-35’s network infrastructure.

You Lock your Car and Your Home, What About Your Data?

What are you doing to ensure that your data is encrypted? Or perhaps a better question altogether is: are you using encryption to keep your data or your client’s data safe at all? If your answer is that you are not using encryption because you just never got around to it or thought that is was too much of a hassle, think again.

NVIDIA® Tesla™ K20 GPU Accelerator Powers Titan

What has 7.1 billion transistors and is currently powering the world’s fastest supercomputer, Titan at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)? NVIDIA K20X GPUs powered by Kepler GK110s. Take a step back and think for a moment about the scale of this thing: it is truly phenomenal. Titan is powered by 18,688 GPUs paired to 18,688 AMD 12 core Opteron CPUs.  This results in 560,640 processors combined with 261,632 GPU accelerator cores earning itself the number one rank on the Top 500 List. According to its score using the Linpack benchmark, the Titan is clearly a beast even in the world of cluster computing, capable of 17.59 Petaflop/s.

Need Holiday Gift Giving Advice?

Do you have customers looking to you for last minute “tech inspired” holiday gift buying advice? For your business professionals with content creation needs and the ability to work on the go, discount laptop designs simply fall short. Limited battery life and insufficient processing power is a direct result of their corner cutting design. Low price retail mobile products are just not able to function for business users.

Server Upgrades are Costly, Plan Ahead

Planning regular server hardware refreshes can be a difficult challenge to overcome. I am sure we can agree that you have heard this from your customers before “Why can’t you just upgrade my existing server with a few parts to boost its performance?” If so, you know the ugly can of worms this statement opens up. What your customer is really telling you is that they would like to spend the minimum amount of money and effort to refresh their server infrastructure. If your customers have a traditional rack or pedestal server in place there really is not a good way to accomplish this and get performance boost.

Custom PC Workstation for Design

Do you have any clients who are graphic designers? For many years graphic designers had flocked to Apple’s Mac systems as the go to workstation of choice. This preference was based on the fact that early design programs were largely targeted at Mac users and this created, as is the case with Apple in general, a very loyal following.  With Adobe and all other major graphical editing programs available on the PC today, this loyalty, while real, is no longer founded in logic.

Your PC Warranty does Matter

Have you ever struggled to explain to your customers why your brand of custom personal computers is a better choice than tier one offerings such as Dell or HP? You mention that your PCs have higher quality components than the lowest cost versions found in the competition. You have even called out that your PCs don’t come pre-loaded with bloatware or malware, which is the case with most off-the-shelf PCs. If you have customers sitting on the fence, now you have an arrow in your quiver ready to deliver the coup de grace with industry leading warranty offerings.

Discrete Graphics a thing of the Past?

What solution do you use for customers looking for powerful graphics in a notebook? Do you search for a notebook with discrete graphics with an ATI or Nvidia GPU and dedicated RAM? It used to be that this was in fact the best and only solution available for customers looking for graphics performance in a mobile product. Enter the Intel HD 4000 Series GPU

Rosetta Stone for Intel Code Names

Are you confused by the “secret” code names that Intel uses on pre-release product? We’ve all heard them for years, Tualatin, Prescott, Skulltrail, Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, etc. If you have become accustomed to using this alternate naming convention it can be confusing, switching back and forth to the official post launch alpha-numeric title. Here are a couple of little tricks to know exactly which generation product you are getting.

As their reseller and trusted advisor, your customer is asking why they should buy a new server now when their current box is just fine. You know that the 4 year old server that is “just fine” is really on its last legs. The server really needs to be replaced along with an overdue software update that will overburden the existing hardware.