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Making The Case For Big Xeon Iron

August 4, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Making The Case For Big Xeon Iron

The two-socket Xeon server has been the default workhorse machine in the datacenter for so long and to such a great extent that using anything else almost looks aberrant. …

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