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28/09/2020

The Industry's First 1U V100 GPU Server with NEBS Level 3

Supermicro is first to market with the Industry's First 1U V100 GPU Server with NEBS level 3. Delivering 2,560 NVIDIA GPU Cores for 5G Edge AI & VR Innovation, this 1U system Is Ideal for 5G workloads, AI, AR/VR, and offers the industry’s Broadest Portfolio of GPU servers for optimised compute workloads

26/08/2020

vScaler integrates SLURM with Fabrex for Composable HPC

vScaler - an enterprise-class private cloud software tool, can now receive scheduled SLURM jobs, determine the various resources needed and then provision the infrastructure accordingly, including memory and cores right down to GPUs or FPGAs. These resources are then returned to the common pool upon completion and available for provisioning for other jobs.

17/08/2020

AMD EPYC™ Processor Enhanced Cache and Memory Architecture Whitepaper

The original AMD EPYC processor launched in 2017 as a revolutionary multi-die-on-package processor that allowed AMD to build a high performance and high throughput processor in a more efficient manner. Building off the success of the first generation, AMD has evolved the multi-die strategy, as the company now focused on a different form of multi-die packaging solutions in the second generation EPYC server processor. Download the Whitepaper to find out more.

05/08/2020

PanFS® parallel file system featuring Dynamic Data Acceleration

Today Panasas announced the launch a new version of its PanFS® parallel file system featuring Dynamic Data Acceleration (DDA), which supports workflows in HPC and AI. In the latest version of PanFS® on the ActiveStor Ultra, Panasas have introduced Dynamic Data Acceleration Technology, which uses a carefully balanced set of HDDs, SATA SSD, NVMe SSD, NVDIMM, and DRAM to provide a combination of excellent performance and low cost per TB.

24/06/2020

Top 5 reasons to pick PanFS® on Active Stor Ultra

Frustration-free HPC storage is here! For a limited time, BIOS IT can offer 2PB @20GB/s for £175K! Read about the top five reasons to choose PanFS® - the fastest parallel file system at any price point, on the ActiveStor Ultra.

22/06/2020

New X12 Generation 4-Socket SuperServer

Supermicro launches a new high-performance X12 generation 4-socket SuperServer®, optimised for the new 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors and the Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory 200 series, bringing outstanding performance to mission-critical workloads in enterprise, cloud-scale, and hybrid environments.

01/06/2020

AMD Targets Financial Services with EPYC™ 7Fx2 High Frequency Processors.

In April 2020, AMD launched it’s latest generation high-frequency EPYC™ 7Fx2 processors designed for commercial high-intensity environments. In this blog we’ll explore the new EPYC™ 7Fx2 processors suitability for the financial services industry (FSI) and take a close look at the first three SKU’s to be announced to date.

19/05/2020

BIOS IT Partners with Panasas to Deliver ActiveStor Ultra Turnkey HPC Storage Appliances

Global high‐performance computing (HPC) integration specialists BIOS IT have partnered with HPC storage expert Panasas® to deliver turnkey storage solutions leveraging the Panasas ActiveStor® Ultra appliance

30/04/2020

What is ISV Certification? And why is it integral for CAE?

Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Certification, means that industry leading CAD, CAE, 3D and CFD software developers have tested their applications against the hardware and can vouch for its performance claims and reliability – essentially giving the server their stamp of approval.

22/04/2020

What is ‘NEBS’ and it’s importance in Telecoms.

Network Equipment Building System (NEBS) consists of a number of guidelines and standards for designing equipment that can be deployed in challenging operating environments. This set of standards is integral to the telecommunications industry, where equipment (that can sometimes be sourced from many different locations) may need to endure varying and sometimes tough physical conditions.

20/03/2020

Cloud Collaboration for Dynamic Research Teams

With the rapid rise in the need for employees to be able to work remotely, in the coming weeks and months we will see a strong acceleration in the adoption of a Cloud-first business model. But what can the Cloud deliver that legacy hardware can?

19/03/2020

COVID-19 How we can all help

As a result of the global pandemic caused by the outbreak of COVID-19 (also known as coronavirus or 2019-nCoV), we at BIOS IT are keen to do what we can to help.

16/03/2020

BIOS IT’s COVID-19 RESPONSE

BIOS IT is a global business and the spread of COVID-19 is affecting every one of us – employees, customers and suppliers. We are a people business and the priority of our operations has always been, and will remain, people’s safety.

12/03/2020

Supermicro Introduces - Outdoor Edge Systems

Supermicro announced new solutions for 5G cell tower deployments leveraging fully configurable SuperServers based on 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, O-RAN compliant partner software, and ability to operate in harsh environments.

09/03/2020

BIOS IT to showcase open networking expertise at Connected Cloud and DC Edge

BIOS IT, a global IT consultancy and solution provider, in partnership with Mellanox Technologies and Cumulus Networks, will showcase their enterprise expertise in open networking at the Connected Cloud and DC Edge Conference, at the Royal Pines Gold Coast, Australia on March 10th-12th.

09/03/2020

Supermicro Refreshed X11 Systems Boost Performance Up to 36%*

Supermicro is introducing 18 new and refined Intel CPU SKUs across Xeon Gold/Silver/Bronze product families that offer additional performance and value at many of the most popular price points.

25/02/2020

New 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors

Intel has announced the addition of new performance and performance-per-dollar-optimized processors to the Intel Xeon Scalable platform. The addition of these new processors will benefit customers across cloud, network and edge. Testing of these new processors is available through BIOS IT Labs. Get in touch to arrange a test drive and enjoy greater performance and performance-per-dollar.

15/01/2020

BIOS IT will showcase its range of optimised HPC, AI & Cloud solutions at the Festival of Genomics

As the largest genomics event in the UK and the fastest growing genomics event in the world, the Festival empowers people from drug development, healthcare, patient and academic organisations to define the future of genomics in healthcare and disease discovery.

08/01/2020

Solutions to reduce time and total cost of discovery in genomics

Our range of optimised solutions for life sciences combines disruptive hardware and software technologies to help drive meaningful industry transformation, to advance researchers’ time to results while reducing the Total Cost of Discovery (TCD).

27/11/2019

SC19 News Roundup

We bring you the latest news and announcements from SC19 A round-up of the news from SC19. Addressing virtually every area of scientific and engineering research, as well as technological development, innovation, and education, SC19 is the biggest event of the HPC Calendar year.

21/11/2019

Intel® oneAPI

Intel oneAPI products deliver the tools needed to deploy applications and solutions across SVMS architectures. Its set of complementary toolkits—a base kit and specialty add-ons—simplify programming and help developers improve efficiency and innovation.

14/11/2019

BIOS IT to showcase rapidly broadening HPC portfolio at SC19

BIOS IT, a global HPC design and integration house will showcase its rapidly growing range of HPC solutions and services, covering compute, storage, interconnect and Cloud at SC19. Solutions on show include AMD EPYC powered solutions, Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Family solutions, vScaler Cloud, IBM, Supermicro and GigaIO Fabric.

14/11/2019

BIOS IT enables composable infrastructure with vScaler and GigaIO.

Global HPC integration experts BIOS IT have teamed up with GigaIO and vScaler to enable a truly composable infrastructure platform, powered by the latest enterprise hardware technology, high performance fabric and Cloud orchestration.

24/10/2019

BIOS IT to showcase Optimised Cloud for FinTech at FIA Chicago

Financial leaders are facing business transformation pressures from multiple fronts, including new and evolving applications, regulatory requirements, security threats, business accountability, and line-of-business relationships. The adoption of innovative and disruptive technologies such as cloud and AI has allowed fast-moving organisations within financial services to quickly gain traction in the market and challenge the incumbent.

24/10/2019

BIOS IT showcases solutions optimised for Computational Fluid Dynamics at CAE 2019

BIOS IT, a global HPC design and integration house will showcase its range of high-performance solutions, optimised for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) workloads at the CAE Conference in Italy on October 28th and 29th.

21/10/2019

Expanding Optane Capacity – Unleashing Performance and Capacity.

By tiering high-performance Intel Optane SSD devices with cost-effective Intel QLC SSDs, enterprises can easily take advantage of the performance of Optane and both the capacity and cost of QLC devices. Creating these hybrid volumes in server-based storage or cloud-based servers eliminates the performance penalty associated with network latency. You finally can have your cake and eat it too.

30/09/2019

Test Drive the IBM Power System AC922

Off the back of BIOS IT's recent partnership announcement with IBM - we are now offering our customers the option to test-drive the AC922 Enterprise AI solution at our labs' facility. The IBM Power System AC922 supports Enterprise AI initiatives throughout their lifecycle. With an optimized hardware and software stack, the AC922 delivers earlier prototypes and yields faster ROI

27/09/2019

The Shift towards Enterprise AI

This report 'Shifting toward Enterprise-grade AI', explores how they are approaching strategic imperatives, defining value drivers, building foundational capabilities and improving access to talent-as well as how their efforts could drive exponential competitive advantage

26/09/2019

BIOS IT partners with IBM® to deliver revolutionary POWER9™ solutions.

BIOS IT, a global HPC solutions integrator, has announced a new OEM partnership with enterprise hardware titans IBM. The new alliance enhances BIOS IT’s diverse portfolio of x86 based solutions adding the full suite of IBM® POWER9™ AI-focused and scale-out systems. The POWER9™ product range offers enhanced core and chip architecture for next-generation applications.

18/09/2019

BIOS IT to showcase ground-breaking ‘SuperFreq’ performance at the Trading Show New York

The unceasing quest for computational speed in HFT has culminated in BIOS IT’s range of solutions for the finance sector. The SuperFreq series of servers are designed for algorithmic trading and model simulations using AI. Delivering consistent single-socket performance (10 cores @4.9GHz), BIOS IT has expertly crafted an overclocked solution with enterprise-class reliability.

29/08/2019

An Interview with an HPC Engineer: The HPC Impact of AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processors

At BIOS IT, we are lucky to work directly alongside some influential HPC engineers. We’ve grabbed some of their time to run our HPC Interview Series and will be discussing some of the latest technologies in the ever-evolving world of enterprise IT. Read the HPC Impact of AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processors.

08/08/2019

AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processor Solutions from BIOS IT

The latest best in class CPU architecture has been under development since early 2018 and we’re excited to say our customers can now avail of the revolutionary AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processors. As the world’s first x86 enterprise processor built on 7nm architecture, the AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series processor delivers a comprehensive, consistent feature set of I/O, memory and security enhancements, across 8 to 64 “Zen” 2 cores.

08/08/2019

2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors: The New Standard for the Modern Data Center

New AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processors are The New Standard for the Modern Data Center. Featuring leadership architecture, performance, and security, 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors help customers turbocharge their application performance, transform their data center operations, and help secure their critical data.

07/08/2019

BIOS IT announces availability of systems featuring AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series processors

BIOS IT prides itself on being first to market with the latest technology and we are excited to announce general availability of our latest range of AMD EPYC™ processor solutions in partnership with Supermicro. Combining all the advantages of the latest AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processors, these servers enable customers to transform their infrastructure with the right resources to drive performance and reduce bottlenecks.

10/07/2019

Memory Bandwidth vs Installed DIMMS with Intel® Xeon® Scalable

With the release of Intel® Xeon® Scalable Family Processors (formerly known as 'Skylake' and recently 'Cascade lake'), many of our customers have queried how the number of memory modules populated per processor socket can affect the overall memory bandwidth.

03/06/2019

Computex Taipei 2019

Each year we’re lucky enough to not just attend Computex, but also Supermicro’s annual partner training event. We gain insights on how to best address common business objectives and more understanding of technology-driven innovation and growth.

28/05/2019

NVIDIA® DGX-2™ hedge funds backtest up to 20 million trading simulations in an hour

NVIDIA® DGX-2™ is one of the premier AI and Deep Learning supercomputing platforms today, designed from the ground up to attack the largest problems in AI.

03/05/2019

ANTI-SLAVERY STATEMENT (2019-2020)

This statement is made regarding the Modern Slavery Act 2015 which requires employers to be transparent about their efforts to end slavery and human trafficking in their supply chain. BIOS IT continues to see high ethical standards in the conduct of our business activities and within our supply chain.

03/04/2019

2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors

Yesterday marked the launch of Intel's 2nd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor family (codenamed Cascade Lake) which will form the backbone of Intel’s data-centric portfolio for AI, Analytics and Cloud and will enable greater efficiencies and most importantly - lower TCO.

03/04/2019

Intel® Select Solutions for Simulation and Modeling

Many simulation and modeling workloads within academia and industry rely on computational fluid dynamics (CFO), computeraided engineering (CAE), and Monte-Carlo, among others. These are designed to run on scalable, high-performance clusters. To support them, modern high-performance computing (HPC) systems require multi-core processors, high-bandwidth fabrics, and broad input/ output (1/0) capabilities.

19/03/2019

News and Announcements from GTC19

Yesterday marked the start of GTC2019, which kicked off in the usual style with the keynote delivered by NVIDIA® CEO Jensen Huang. BIOS IT were lucky enough to be onsite at the event and we have summarised the major technology announcements made

13/03/2019

Open Networking: 21st Century IT

Correctly done, a flexible, agile and open network will facilitate business efficiencies, promote cross-team collaboration, reduce risk, and drive both innovation and growth.

14/02/2019

NVIDIA® DGX-2™ in the Cloud ResNet Results

BIOS IT's Cloud partner vScaler recently integrated the NVIDIA DGX-2 monster server into its cloud environment and subsequently put it to the test.

13/12/2018

Case Study: UNSW Sydney

BIOS IT deploy a fully supported Open Networking solution to deliver increased efficiency, flexibility, scalability and performance at UNSW Sydney.

26/11/2018

SC18 Roundup

Last week, BIOS IT exhibited at SC18 - the biggest event in the HPC calendar year. SC18 is the world’s largest conference for HPC and networking professionals, attracting scientists, engineers, software developers, policy makers, corporate managers, CIOs, and IT administrators from universities, industry, and government agencies worldwide.

14/11/2018

BIOS IT showcase Computational Fluid Dynamics Solutions powered by AMD and vScaler at SC18

BIOS IT, a global IT consultancy and solution provider, will showcase its Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) solutions, powered by AMD EPYC™ processors at SC18.

13/11/2018

BIOS IT launch “Gene Genie” at SC18

Dallas, November 13th 2018. BIOS IT launches the latest addition to its HPC portfolio – Gene Genie. Gene Genie is an end-to-end ecosystem for Artificial Intelligence (AI) advancement in the healthcare industry.

12/11/2018

BIOS IT partners with GigaIO

BIOS IT partners with GigaIO to deliver disaggregated infrastructure to its HPC, FinTech and Cloud customers. Disaggregation and composability enable organisations to meet the demands of new data-intensive applications and dynamically assign resources to match changing workloads.

10/10/2018

GTC Europe 2018 Announcements

We're bringing you the latest announcements from GTC Europe 2018. The GPU Technology Conference 2018 keynote kicked off showing the many ways AI is changing our lives. Read about the highlights from the entire keynote at GTC 2018:

24/09/2018

New Generation A+ AMD EPYC™ Processor-based Solutions

Supermicro's latest range of AMD EPYC™ 7000 Series SoC-based server and storage solutions offer new levels of optimized performance per watt per dollar, and deliver outstanding core density, superior memory bandwidth, and unparalleled I/O capacity.

15/08/2018

NVIDIA Introduces Turing and CUDA 10

NVIDIA announced its newest Quadro RTX GPUs based on the new Turing architecture at the SIGGRAPH professional graphics conference in Vancouver.

21/06/2018

World Record Set on Supermicro Solution

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology, along with Red Hat and Solarflare today announced a new world record for lowest latency on the well-known STAC-N1 benchmark.

14/06/2018

Why we attend Computex Taipei and how it benefits you!

In this event summary we dive into the latest AI/ML platform from Supermicro - HGX-2, Supermicro’s 2018 technology roadmap, NVMe solutions, Intel Optane SSD drives and AMD solutions announced at Computex Taipei 2018.

21/05/2018

NVIDIA Tesla - Accelerating innovation in Medical Imaging

Telsa V100 allows researchers to maximise the use of computing cycles. This provides the needed flexibility and power to accelerate research and innovation across medical imaging, pathology, health informatics and drug discovery.

26/04/2018

7 Reasons to choose Memblaze PB5

1M IOPS and 11TB in one slot - the most dense one slot solution available bar none! Datasets are growing constantly, the Memblaze 11TB drives provide you with the capacity headroom to accommodate even the largest Dataset on a single drive. No Spanning and/or RAID required!

17/04/2018

What is web-scale networking? Don't be left in the Ice Age

All organisations are moving their infrastructure to a private, public or a hybrid cloud environment (that's a given), but there are really intelligent organisations that have realised that web-scale networking provides them with mammoth cost savings, the agility of the likes of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google; the ability to scale when they're ready in an open, disaggregated and modular architecture.

05/04/2018

Enterprise PCIe NVMe SSA

Built on our proven SSD technology, Memblaze PB5 PCIe Solid State Accelerators (SSA) offer an affordable scalable way to accelerate performance for demanding 24/7 enterprise and cloud computing applications. These i/O acceleration capabilities are ideal for intensive workloads such as OLTP, Analytics, Media Streaming, Media Editing, HFT trading and more!

29/03/2018

Supermicro's New Scale-Up Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Systems

On display at GTC 2018, Supermicro GPU-optimized systems address market demand for 10x growth in deep learning, AI, and big data analytic applications with best-in-class features including NVIDIA Tesla V100 32GB with NVLink and maximum GPU density

29/03/2018

NVIDIA DGX2

Experience new levels of AI speed and scale with NVIDIA® DGX™-2, the first 2 petaFLOPS system that combines 16 fully interconnected GPUs for 10X the deep learning performance.

29/03/2018

NVIDIA Quadro® GV100

The NVIDIA Quadro® GV100 is reinventing the workstation to meet the demands of next-generation ray tracing, AI, simulation, and VR enhanced workflows.

29/03/2018

NVIDIA® Announce new Tesla® V100 32GB Configuration

At this years NVIDIA GTC event, CEO Jensen Huang introduces the new Tesla V100 32Gb configuration during his keynote speech. We highlight the benefits of the revolutionary Volta GPU architecture.

08/03/2018

Mitigate the Performance Penalty of Spectre and Meltdown with Mellanox

In early January 2018, major chip manufacturers announced that two vulnerabilities would affect processors currently deployed in millions of devices. Commonly referred to as ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’, these open the door for hackers to access sensitive user data.

11/01/2018

Processor Vulnerability Update – Spectre & Meltdown

Due to the recent discovery of microprocessor vulnerabilities that could have an impact on BIOS IT systems, we are advising customers to run a microcode update of the system BIOS along with an operating system update.

30/11/2017

SC17 Round-up

BIOS IT recently exhibited at Supercomputing 2017 in Denver, Colorado where we were excited to showcase our comprehensive range of disruptive technology solutions for HPC workloads.

13/11/2017

BIOS IT, brings its unique homebrew of disruptive technologies, cloud and HPC services to SC17

BIOS IT, a global IT consultancy and solution provider will showcase its latest range of ‘homebrew’ - disruptive technologies, cloud solutions and enterprise grade appliances for HPC workloads at Supercomputing Conference 2017 (SC17).

29/09/2017

CASE STUDY: Deutsche Börse AG

Deutsche Börse AG is one of the largest exchange organisations worldwide. It organises markets characterised by integrity, transparency and safety for investors and for companies that raise capital markets on which professional traders buy and sell equities, derivatives and other financial instruments according to clear rules and under strict supervision.

29/09/2017

6U SuperBlade Disaggregated Server

New 6U SuperBlade Disaggregated Server Systems supporting Rack Scale Design and Free Air Cooling

28/09/2017

Petabyte Scale 1U Server and JBOF

Coming soon to BIOS IT, new all-flash NVMe™ (Non-Volatile Memory Express) 1U JBOF (Just a Bunch Of Flash) and 1U SuperServer with support for 32 hot-swap NVMe SSDs.

28/09/2017

Vote for Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has been nominated for a HPCwire Readers Choice award 2017, for 'Best use of HPC in Life Sciences’.

07/09/2017

HPC for Wall Street

BIOS IT, a global HPC consultancy and solution provider, focused on delivering the latest high-performance, power efficient IT solutions, will exhibit at the 2017 HPC for Wall Street conference on September 12, at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York.

31/08/2017

Introducing NVMe-oF

Non-Volatile Memory Express is a communications interface/protocol developed specially for SSDs. Designed to take advantage of the unique properties of pipeline-rich, random access, memory-based storage, NVMe reduces latency and provide faster CPU to data storage device performance.

09/08/2017

BIOS IT, in partnership with NVIDIA®, showcases its Deep Learning Solutions

BIOS IT, a global IT consultancy and solution provider, along with its partners NVIDIA®, Supermicro and vScaler, will exhibit at the AI and Machine Learning Summit, in Sydney on August 15th-16th, showcasing its broad range of deep learning solutions, based on NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 GPU accelerators.

03/08/2017

Supermicro® and AMD™ continues to grow and evolve with the introduction of AMD EPYC™ 7000 series

Over a decade long partnership between Supermicro® and AMD™ continues to grow and evolve with the introduction of AMD EPYC™ 7000 series processor for the Data center.

13/07/2017

BIOS IT is Intel® Cluster Ready certified for next generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor Family

BIOS IT is proud to be Intel® Cluster Ready certified for next generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Family (codename Skylake) – the biggest data centre platform advancement in a decade.

06/06/2017

New Generation AMD EPYC™ Processor-based Solutions

Supermicro’s new generation of server solutions supporting AMD EPYC processors will unlock many opportunities for datacenter customers

25/05/2017

BIOS IT, showcases its GPU Solutions for Finance and HPC at the ReWork Deep Learning Summit, London.

BIOS IT, a global IT consultancy and solution provider, along with its partners NVIDIA®, Supermicro and vScaler, will exhibit at the ReWork Deep Learning Summit, in London on June 1st-2nd, showcasing its broad range of deep learning solutions, built around NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 GPU accelerators.

26/04/2017

GPU Solutions, on Premise or in the Cloud? BIOS IT do the math.

BIOS IT’s latest GPU offering in partnership with Supermicro - the BIOS ANNA (Artificial Neural Network Accelerator) delivers maximum processing acceleration for the most compute intensive workloads in the smallest physical dimensions (1U form factor).

26/04/2017

Monte Carlo simulations using GPU in the Cloud

Milliseconds make all the difference in the finance industry and that is why GPU-accelerated solutions have become commonplace in many applications such as, Big Data, machine learning and neural networks, as faster analytics offer a huge competitive advantage in HPC and also Finance industries.

26/04/2017

Supermicro 8-way

Introducing the new 7U 8-Way MP SuperServer Solution, with support for 8 Intel® Xeon® E7-8800 v4/v3 product families – offering up to 24 cores per CPU.

20/04/2017

BIOS IT exhibit at the ReWork Deep Learning Summit, Singapore

BIOS IT, a global IT consultancy and solution provider, along with its partners NVIDIA® and vScaler, will exhibit at the ReWork Deep Learning Summit, in Singapore on April 27th-28th. Showcasing its deep learning solutions, based on NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 GPU accelerators, BIOS IT’s industry leading solutions promise to be a master class of GPU server design and innovation, for both finance and HPC.

20/04/2017

BIOS IT exhibits at Deep Learning Summit

BIOS IT, a global IT consultancy and solution provider, along with its cloud partners vScaler, will exhibit at the ReWork Deep Learning Summit, in San Francisco on January 26th and 27th. Showcasing its deep learning solutions, based on NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 GPU accelerators, BIOS IT’s industry leading servers promise to be a master class of GPU server design and innovation.

18/01/2017

BIOS IT exhibits at Data Centre Summit

BIOS IT, a global IT consultancy and solution provider, along with its cloud partners vScaler, will exhibit at the Data Centre Summit, in London on February 8th. As part of its exhibit, BIOS IT will showcase its IaaS offering, now available on the G-Cloud (G8) framework.

17/01/2017

BIOS IT exhibits at Deep Learning Summit

13/12/2016

BIOS IT demos HPC on Demand at CIUK

BIOS IT, a global IT consultancy and solution provider, will exhibit at CIUK in Manchester, UK from December 14th-15th. As part of its exhibit, BIOS IT will be demonstrating its HPC on Demand capabilities, made possible by its partnership with vScaler Ltd - which vastly speeds up the process of standing up an OpenHPC cluster from what would usually take days, weeks or months to mere minutes.

10/11/2016

BIOS IT Announces it's collaboration with vScaler

BIOS IT is will be showcasing the latest HPC solutions and services, converged cloud platform in partnership with vScaler Ltd.

08/11/2016

BIOS IT exhibitis latest Intel Xeon Phi Solutions at SC16

BIOS IT, a global IT consultancy and solution provider, will exhibit at SC16 in Salt Lake City, Utah from November 14th-17th. BIOS IT is will be showcasing its HPC solutions and services, including a range of solutions featuring the latest Intel® Xeon Phi™processor.

01/09/2016

Supermicro® IPMI

Intelligent Platform Management Interface - (IPMI) has been around since 1998 when the specification was launched. The standard, initially led by Intel, has since been adopted by virtually all server system vendors including Supermicro, HP, Dell and IBM (Lenovo).

11/08/2016

BIOS IT announces its collaboration with vScaler at SC16

BIOS IT, a global IT consultancy and solution provider, will exhibit at SC16 in Salt Lake City, Utah from November 14th-17th. BIOS IT is will be showcasing the latest HPC solutions and services, including their converged cloud platform in partnership with vScaler Ltd.

17/06/2016

Introducing the world’s first Pascal-ready GPU server

Introducing the world’s first Pascal-ready GPU server – with support for up to 4x NVidia Tesla P100 (codename Pascal) GPUs.

17/06/2016

BIOS-IT to deploy centralised HPC infrastructure leveraging Intel® Omni-Path Architecture

Northumbria University, working in partnership with BIOS IT have become one of the first UK sites to deploy Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA) for their centralised HPC infrastructure. This is the first stage of Northumbria University’s long term objective to provide its students, researchers and faculty members with a state of the art multipurpose heterogeneous computing facility.

16/06/2016

Introducing the world’s highest density 8-way Supermicro Server

Supermicro delivers the world’s highest-density 8-way server in line with Intel’s release of the E7-8800 v3/v4 family of CPUs and supports an incredible 24TB of RAM making it ideal for in-memory database applications, virtualisation and business intelligence.

16/06/2016

Broadcom switch solutions

For a long time, Supermicro has based all of its switches on Intel chipsets, providing fantastic performance but with a premium price-tag. The latest array of offerings has been developed around a partnership with one of the biggest names in switching – Broadcom.

12/05/2016

BIOS IT announces SuperFreq system validation with the latest Solarflare 8000 series adapter cards

BIOS IT will announce its latest overclocked single processor server for the financial industry now featuring the latest 8000 series adaptor card from Solarflare at the Trading Show Chicago.

19/04/2016

Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 product family

The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 product Intel Cluster Family was finally unveiled earlier this month.Codenamed ‘Broadwell’, the new v4 SKUs offer several enhancements over the existing Haswell core featured in the current Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3 product family.

18/02/2016

Intelligent, Powerful, GPU Powered Voice Processing

Intelligent, Powerful, GPU Powered Voice Processing At the Deep Learning Summit 2016, BIOS IT partnered with Intelligent Voice to showcase intelligent, powerful GPU-powered voice processing. We demonstrated how our 4U 8 x GPU solutions can turn your company’s phone calls, email and IM into smart data using the world’s fastest speech to text engine.

18/02/2016

Intel® Omni-Path

Omni-Path is the next generation high performance fabric from Intel®; the successor to the already very successful True Scale Fabric, Omni-Path is making a huge step in closing the gap to the market dominant Mellanox Technologies

18/02/2016

Artificial Intelligence in the cloud

Artificial Intelligence in the cloud Hot off the back of our recent launch of the BIOS ANNA – an artificial neural network accelerator with 20 times faster training than its counterparts, BIOS IT is excited to announce our latest offering – Artificial Intelligence in the cloud!

08/02/2016

BIOS IT TAPAS takes care of MIFID II

BIOS IT recently attended the Intelligent Trading Summit where we showcased some of our leading edge, high frequency and low latency solutions for the finance industry, namely TAPAS and SuperFreq. A lot of conversations we had with attendees centered around MiFID II.

21/01/2016

BIOS IT launches its Deep Learning Appliance – BIOS ANNA

BIOS IT, a global IT consultancy and solution provider, focused on delivering the latest high-performance, power efficient IT solutions, will be attending the 2016 Deep Learning Summit, in San Francisco, where they will be introducing the BIOS ANNA- the latest artificial neural network accelerator, with 20 times faster training than its counterparts.

14/01/2016

Software defined all-flash storage solutions

Nexenta, Sandisk and Supermicro have formed a strategic alliance to bring out a unique class of next-generation software defined all-flash storage solutions for the data centre. At the centre of this collaboration is SanDisk’s InfiniFlash™ System—a high-capacity and extreme-performance flash-based storage system and Supermicro’s leading high-performance servers. The joint solution aligns with the growth of disaggregated data centres propelled by Big Data and cloud environments.

06/01/2016

BIOS IT partner with 'Enabler' Supermicro

One of the many reasons we partner with Supermicro is the ability to bring to market customized and affordable solutions, tailor made for any customer - from startups to enterprise.

17/12/2015

HPC Managed Services from BIOS IT

Enterprise IT leaders are facing business transformation pressures from multiple fronts, including new and evolving applications, regulatory requirements, security threats, business accountability, and line-of-business relationships. To help make this process easier BIOS IT have launched vScalerTM Managed – a complete HPC Cluster management service.

08/12/2015

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway

BIOS IT are excited to announce the 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway!

26/11/2015

BIOS IT showcases its latest HPC technology at SC15

This year BIOS IT were displaying the latest in HPC technology at Supercomputing 2015, Austin TX. Those that visited our booth were shown the very latest in HPC tech, including our brand new vScaler product, HPC in the cloud!

26/11/2015

Extreme storage performance with NVMe

Designed to deliver unrivalled performance, flexibility, scalability and serviceability that is ideal for demanding enterprise workloads, Supermicro announced the 24x NVMe ultra server. In a 2U form factor, the server boasts 24 hot-swappable NVMe drives, the first of its kind.

26/11/2015

Supermicro launches Skylake server range

Also displayed at SC15 were Supermicro’s X11 Skylake UP Serverboard and Server technologies.

26/11/2015

Supermicro debuts world’s first 100Gbps Omni-Path switch

There is a lot of buzz in the industry around Omni-Path next generation fabric technology. Intel Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA), an element of Intel Scalable System Framework, delivers the performance for tomorrow’s high performance computing (HPC) workloads and the ability to scale to tens of thousands of nodes—and eventually more—at a price competitive with today’s fabrics.

26/11/2015

New 4U 60-Bay Storage Server

In addition to the 90-Bay JBOD that was announced a short time ago, Supermicro debuts a brand new 60 bay top-load storage server, perfect for all in one storage solutions. Unlike the JBOD, the 60-bay storage server supports dual Xeon processors, 6 additional NVMe drive bays along with 2x Rear OS HDD bays. This server is set to create some waves in the industry!

20/11/2015

MEET WITH THE BIOS IT TEAM AT SC15 – AUSTIN, TEXAS! 15-20TH NOVEMBER 2015

BIOS IT will be exhibiting at Supercomputing 2015 held in Austin, TX this year. If you are heading to SC15, come and check out our booth (No. 3106) from the 15-20th November and have a chat with our in house HPC experts! We will be displaying the very latest in HPC technology.

20/11/2015

BIOS IT’S NEXENTA APPLIANCE JUST GOT SERIOUS

BIOS IT has teamed up with Storage hardware maker SanDisk, storage software supplier Nexenta and server manufacturer Supermicro to provide pre-configured all-flash storage arrays.

20/11/2015

NVIDIA GRID 2.0

Last month NVIDIA launched NVIDIA GRID 2.0 with broad industry support for its ability to deliver even the most graphics-intensive applications to any connected device virtually.

20/11/2015

BIOS IT SUPERFREQ - OVERCLOCKED SINGLE SOCKET SERVER

BIOS IT are proud to announce the SuperFreq – our most recent addition to our innovative range of trading solutions, designed to deliver high performance and maximum reliability, ideal for high frequency trading and low latency environments.

20/11/2015

SUPERMICRO ANNOUNCES 1U TWIN PRO – 2 COMPUTE NODES IN A 1U CHASSIS

In addition to Supermicro’s established twin pro range, Supermicro have launched a 1U two-node system to suit high-availability requirements while keeping density in mind.

01/09/2015

NVIDIA GRID Seeding Offer

Our seeding programme offers a certified VDI optimised server for 50% less than the original price.In partnership with NVIDIA® and Supermicro, BIOS IT has configured a number of high performance Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) optimised platforms.

21/08/2015

ATLANTIS HYPERSCALE

The Atlantis Hyperscale is a hyperconverged appliance built on commodity hardware around the already proven and award-winning software defined storage USX platform, in effect offering the ‘plug and play’ simplicity of hardware-defined platforms without the price-tag and without the hardware handcuffs.

21/08/2015

MELLANOX 25GBE, 50GBE AND 100GBE BUNDLES

Following the huge success of our first Ethernet connectivity bundle, we have now released an entire collection of Mellanox bundle deals to suit your needs! A complete end-to-end Ethernet connectivity bundle for 25GbE, 50GbE, and even 100GbE

21/08/2015

NVIDIA GRID VDI SEEDING OFFER

Enter the world of graphics-intensive VDI at half the normal cost! Our seeding programme offers a certified VDI optimised server for 50% less than the original price

21/08/2015

NVME SUPERSERVER 24X HOT-SWAPPABLE PCIE ENABLED HARD-DRIVES

BIOS IT is pleased to announce Supermicro’s unveiling of its 24 drive NVMe enabled Superserver, allowing all drives to utilise the super-fast PCIe bus. The 2U server supports the latest generation in server hardware (Intel Xeon E5 v3, DDR4 and has 2x 10G ports onboard).

21/07/2015

INFINIFLASH FROM SANDISK

Today’s highly visual, social, analytics-driven society continues to crave higher performance, max-capacity storage solutions to fuel both new business insights and personal interactions. BIOS IT has a long-standing partnership with SanDisk and is happy to announce the advent of the InfiniFlash™, a new storage platform offering massive capacity and high density to address the demands of capacity workloads at scale without

21/07/2015

MELLANOX UNVEILS 100GBE OPEN SWITCH

Introducing the industry’s first 100 Gigabit Ethernet, Open Ethernet-based, non-blocking switch from Mellanox – Spectrum. The next generation of Open Ethernet-based switch overcomes current datacentre challenges by providing a highly flexible and scalable solution allowing you to deploy the hardware-software combinations best suited to meet your specific needs.

21/07/2015

SM’S HIGH PERFORMANCE MICROCLOUD

This month sees the introduction of the latest addition to Supermicro’s MicroCloud product line. The newest member is an 8-Node 3U blade cluster supporting a single Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 processor and up to 256GB DDR4 RAM per node and is built around Supermicro’s Green Computing architecture – bringing industry leading cooling and power efficiency.

21/07/2015

TAPAS

The BIOS TAPAS (Trade Analysis and Packet cApture System) is a fully customisable trade analytics appliance that provides clients with nano-second-accurate monitoring of network and transaction latency, providing visibility, and alerting on network congestion conditions, for both buy and sell side firms.

24/04/2015

Introducing the world’s FASTEST layer 2+ switch

The ExaLINK Fusion is a uniquely flexible top-of-rack switch that can do it all. With a combination of 110ns Layer 2 switching, 100ns Layer 1.5 forwarding and 5ns Layer 1 functionality, it is an unbeatable choice for any application requiring low latency networking.

24/04/2015

It's high-performance storage, but not as we know it

We’ve teamed up with Supermicro and Nexenta to create a highly available, full featured, unified software-defined storage appliance that rivals the performance of legacy tier-one arrays without the lock-in, without the proprietary hardware, and most importantly – without the pricetag.

24/04/2015

What’s cooler than being cool?

When it comes to reducing TCO and increasing performance, nothing comes close to liquid cooling. BIOS IT has an array of liquid-cooled solutions for all environments - from closed loop servers to distributed datacentre rack liquid cooling and fully submerged environments.

24/04/2015

Dizzyingly fast data with Diablo

BIOS IT provides a range of hyper-fast storage servers based on Diablo Technologies’ Memory Channel Storage™ (MCS™). By directly presenting flash storage to the memory subsystem, a huge amount of storage is now accessible via the shortest and fastest path possible.

24/04/2015

Giving you more GPUs per U than anyone else!

BIOS IT is excited to announce the upcoming arrival of the industry’s densest GPU solutions from Supermicro. Spearheaded by a 1U server boasting 4 GPUs, this sensational range of ultra-dense accelerated servers will change the face of energy-efficient parallel computing.

07/04/2015

Introducing NVIDIA GRID™ vGPU™ on vSphere 6.0 and VMware Horizon

NVIDIA GRID™ vGPU™ brings the full benefit of NVIDIA hardware-accelerated graphics to virtualized desktops. This technology provides exceptional graphics performance for VDI users, equivalent to local workstations, yet enables consolidation by sharing a professional GPU among multiple users. Now with the launch of VMware vSphere 6.0, this technology is now available under Horizon View, as well as Citrix’s XenDesktop.

07/04/2015

Mellanox Ethernet Bundle – 50% price discount!

Introducing a great offer ona complete end-to-end Ethernet connectivity bundle for 10GbE, 40GbE, and even 56GbE! With support of up to 48 x 10GbE ports,12 x 40/56GbE ports, or a combination of ports, the bundle from Mellanox includes a switch, two adapters, software licenses, cables and support - all from a single vendor ensuring fast deployment as well as quality and support at every point in your datacentre environment.

07/04/2015

Supermicro Launches New Line of Low Power, High Density Server Solutions

Intel unveiled a new range of Xeon brand processors. The new processors, referred to as Xeon D, are a series of system-on-chip server processors intended for blade and high density server systems. Supermicro have launched a range of low power, high density server solutions that support the new Xeon D.

07/04/2015

VMware EVO:RAIL Appliance

Supermicro's EVO: RAIL appliance is a complete, turnkey, fully certified, Hyper-converged Infrastructure solution for virtualized environments that can be deployed with a few clicks in just 15 minutes. It combines compute, networking and storage resources into a single 2U, 4-node form factor to create a simple, easy-to-deploy building block for the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC).

28/01/2015

BIOS IT to Open US Integration and LABS Facility to Support Development of SUPERMICRO Solutions

New York City, New York (January 28th, 2015).BIOS IT, a leading provider in technology solutions and consultancy, today announce a new facility, just 20 minutes outside of Manhattan, offering customers state-of-the-art hardware and design services. BIOS offer a range of high performance, low-powered server, virtualisation, storage and cloud solutions, as well as global support services.

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