Why Xeon?

Xeon is a family of CPUs within the Intel product line up. Configured and optimized for server and enterprise applications. The highest degree of care is given to ensure utmost stability through long operating hours, even under the heaviest workloads. Each CPU is factory tested to ensure quality and stability.

What is DDR ?

Is the way the CPU writes data to the RAM, DDR stands for Double Data Rate. In the simplest terms in each "cycle" of the CPU it writes to the RAM at the beginning and the end of the "cycle" making the RAM much faster than standard SDR.

Multiple Channel RAM

RAM channels are the communication paths between the CPU and the RAM. One channel memory would allow the CPU to talk to one RAM stick at a time. Dual Channel memory would allow the CPU to split data in half and send half of the data to one RAM stick and the other half to the 2nd RAM stick effectively doubling the rate the CPU can write information to the RAM. The reverse is also true that write speeds would also double. Xeon CPUs are capable of 6 channels of communication with the RAM, meaning the more RAM sticks in the system the faster the RAM can be accessed as well as increasing the capacity.

What is ECC (Error Correction Code)?

This means that when information is written to the RAM there is a sperate module checking the integrity of the data being written to the RAM and ensures that no data is corrupted while being written or read from the RAM.

What is M.2 NVMe ?

M.2 is simply a form factor or type of connector for the hard drive. NVMe stands for Non-Volatile Memory express. Breaking this down Non-volatile means that data isn't lost when the device isn't receiving power, memory is just the storage of data. Meaning this really fast data storage running at close to memory speeds.

What is Raid ?

RAID or Redundant Array of Independent Disks is a storage protocol for the system and how it should allocate data to the multiple hard drives in the system.

RAID 1

Data is mirrored on multiple drives, data is essentially written twice once to one drive and then again to a back up drive. Read speeds are again optimized as data can be read from multiple drives at once however write speeds are sacrificed as data needs to be written twice. Loosing one drive would not affect the data providing that the drive with the mirror of the data is still functioning.

RAID 10

Data is split between multiple drives, and each data block is mirrored to another drive. Meaning multiple drives can be lost and the data can be recovered provided the mirror has not been lost. Here write speeds are slow and read speeds are up to two times faster.

What is Quadro ?

Maximize productivity, reduce time to insight, and lower the cost of your data science projects with a new breed of workstations that combine powerful NVIDIA Quadro RTX GPUs with a pre-installed software stack featuring RAPIDS for a fully intergrated data science solution.

What is 10/100/1000

These numbers refer to the data transfer rate of the network card 10, 100, 1000 MB/s respectively.

Why Dual ?

Networking cards are not limited to internet connections and can be used to interface with multiple different instruments. adding additional network ports allows the workstation to interface with several different instruments while minting an internet connection.