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24.01.2022 Telstra has started rolling out it's 5G network with capital cities coming online. Don't expect to pick up a 5G phone anytime soon with wireless modems expected to be the first products available. So how fast is it? In theory 5G is expected to hit 20GBps, some 200x faster than the fastest NBN at 100Mbps. Of course congestion and other factors will come into play. What is exciting is what is called latency. Currently when you requsest a web page over the network it takes 60ms ...to several 100ms for that to travel through th system before it gets to where it needs to be. 5G will cut that to 1ms. I expect we will start to see the things we were told to internet would deliver, for example a surgeon operating using video and controlling a robot from a different city to the patient. Advances in VR and augmented reality will happen. Being able to download a complete move in under 20secs will also be a bonus. Expect to see 5G becoming common in 2020. See more

23.01.2022 With the release of the AMD RYZEN THREADRIPPER 3990X only 5 days away (February 7) it is worth having a look at some of the details and specifications of the record-breaking chip. The HEDT chip is the world’s first with 64 cores and 128 threads. It has a 4.3GHz boost clock rate and L1/L2/L3 caches of 4MB, 32MB and 256MB. Quad channel DDR4 memory of 3200MHz and 88 PCIe 4.0 lanes help this processor to the top of the heap. This new CPU can only build on AMD’s THREADRIPPER 3970X and it’s swag of records which include a 5.75GHz overclock achieved across all 32 cores.

23.01.2022 AMD has officially announced the release of it's Ryzen 3000 series CPUs on the 7th of July. Starting off with the top of the line parts, AMD is announcing the Ryzen 9 series which is made up of the Ryzen 9 3900X. The Ryzen 9 3900X is the flagship 12 core part which is aimed at users demanding heavy multi-threading performance on AM4 sockets. The chip has a total cache of 70 MB and a TDP of 105W. The chip features a base clock of 3.8 GHz base and 4.6 GHz boost which when put together is just stunning for a 12 core part that will hit retail shelves on 7th July for $499 US. ...more to come!!

19.01.2022 5G technology is being tested on the Gold Coast during the Commonwealth Games. Can't wait for it to become available for everyone. Wireless speeds faster than the current NBN is achieving!

19.01.2022 Time to catch up on some posts!! But before I do, I want to share a secret with everyone that hopefully will help keep your computers safe from hackers. The best way to do this is to tell you how to hack a computer network and I am going to let you know how easy it is! When working as a "Network Security Consultant" what basically happens is a company will give me permission to break into their computer network. When I have done that, I can then tell them how I did it and wha...Continue reading

17.01.2022 SNS will soon be offering a completely new range of services to complement our current range. We will soon have available internet domain registration, web hosting including online stores, WordPress hosting, VPS hosting, business hosting and dedicated servers. E-mail services will be available and SSL technology will keep everything secure. We will be backing our new products with 24/7 support and extremely competitive pricing structures. So stay tuned for the rollout date of the new services.

13.01.2022 I won’t dwell too much on the highlights of the desktop sector from the year just gone except for a few points. Intel kept the crown in the best overall gaming CPU with the i9-9900KS. AMD’s Ryzen 9 3950X is so close behind you would be pushed to tell any difference. The R9-3950X does have double the core count of the i9-9900KS which lets it push way past in any applications taking advantage of this though. Overall AMD had the edge on Intel with their release of the Zen 2 mic...roarchitecture, fabricated on the 7-nanometer node from TSMC, which the Ryzen and Threadripper 3000 series CPUs take advantage of. Intel was plagued by continuing problems with supply and admitted that a move to the 7-nanometer process was still 2 years away. Their release of what turned out to be a rehash of 5-year-old technology was a disappointment. AMD’s HEDT (High End Desktop) Threadripper offerings continued the trend of causing Intel discomfort. The soon to be released (7 Feb) TR-3990X cementing it’s place at the top of the pile even taking on and beating a system with dual Intel Xeon processors. The big news in server hardware again belongs to AMD. AMD’s new Epyc Rome CPU delivered what was promised and more. The 7000 series have proven it can match and beat Intel Xeon processors in a single Epyc CPU server against a dual Xeon server setup. This has a huge implication on purchasing decisions in a data centre environment. The processing power is only part of the equation. The racks and connections amount to less than half of the costs associated with a data centre. The huge reduction in power, and therefore cooling, needed to obtain the same level of performance is what really matters when you are running 20 to 50 thousand servers. The power costs are huge. These ongoing costs in conjunction with the reduced purchase price of less CPUs have made AMD a winner in this sector. This reduced cost is why Google and Twitter are amongst the big data that have announced a switch to AMD Epyc processors. See more

13.01.2022 Due to increasing workloads SNS would like to welcome Anthony (AJ) Wagner to the team. AJ is a Cisco switching expert with an enterprise focus in a datacenter environment. He has spent the last 3 1/2 yrs in a high density, high security installation which could boast about it's record of zero inbound breaches while he was there. He is also a Windows Server wiz with Software Defined Networking his speciality. We are sure he will slot right in and our regular clients will no doubt meet him soon.

10.01.2022 AMD has announced its new generation of Ryzen 3000 series processors and Navi based GPUs (video card processors) will arrive in Q3 this year. The new Zen2 based CPUs are built on 7 nanometer die using a process called extreme ultraviolet lithography. This means being able to pack more transistors into a smaller space and, as AMD has demonstrated, using less power. Less power equals less heat which means faster clock speeds. The new line up is rumoured to include a 16 core, 32 thread CPU, running at 4.3 GHz with 5.1 GHz boost clock. Intel meanwhile is still experiencing difficulties transferring to a 10 nm process with its CPUs still manufactured on a 14 nm die for the near future.

08.01.2022 Sorry to everyone for the lack of posts over the last couple of months. I have been tied up with installations and away a lot of the time. I promise to catch up asap.

04.01.2022 Intel has revealed the full Cascade Lake 3000-series Xeon W lineup for workstations.The Cascade Lake processors are replacing the Skylake series currently on the market, The chips are based on the Cascade Lake microarchitecture and the refined 14nm++ manufacturing process. The Skylake Xeon W processors used motherboards with the LGA 2066 socket while the new Cascade Lake will use the LGA 3647 socket. Intel has doubled the cores and cache on the new chips, probably to keep on... par with AMD's core-heavy Ryzen Threadripper processors. The increased core count comes at a cost, though. In comparison to Skylake W, Cascade Lake W's TDP (thermal design power) has increased significantly between 33 percent to 46 percent. It's worth mentioning that Intel has implemented its Turbo Boost Max 3.0 technology with Cascade Lake W. Cascade Lake W arrives with eight cores as a minimum.and the flagship model coming in at 28 cores / 56 threads.. Besides the increased number of cores, Cascade Lake W also brings other goodies to the campfire. The transition over to the LGA 3647 socket allows Cascade Lake W chips to hook up with hexa-channel memory kits, bumping the maximum capacity to 1TB. Cascade Lake W supports DDR4 memory modules up to 2,933 MHz out of the box. Intel offers three Cascade Lake W processors, which are designated by the "M" suffix, that are compatible with up to 2TB of memory. However, you'll have to pay a hefty premium for that feature though. Cascade Lake W has 64 PCIe 3.0 lanes at its disposal as opposed to the 48 PCIe 3.0 lanes on Skylake W. The flagship model comes in at a hefty $7453 USD.

01.01.2022 The US Energy Dept announced recently it has awarded a $600 million contract to AMD and Cray to build a supercomputer that will be faster the the next 160 fastest put togeter. It is expected that "Frontier" will produce more than 1.5 exaflops of computing power An exaflop is equal to one quintillion of calculations per second.A quintillion (1000000000000000000) is 1 with 18 zeros. I will have enough network bandwith to download 100 000 HD movies in one second. If every person on earth performed one calculation per second it would take them 6 years to do what this system will in 1 second.