Intel have kindly donated a full reference evaluation system so we can see what, if any, improvements our bio-informatics pipelines may realise on this new hardware platform. The model is the :
Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8170 CPU @ 2.10GHz
Intel’s ARK details are available here:
http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/37572/Skylake
and of course, wikipedia are here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_(microarchitecture)
We are looking to gauge interest in their conjoined Skylake FPGA offering. If anyone is interested we can gain access to a test system.
AMD systems are also looking very interesting:
https://www.amd.com/en/events/naples-tech-day
We are looking to start evaluating their hardware very soon…. Finally a decent takeoff opportunity !