One of the recurring themes at the recent HPC Day event that we hosted ahead of the SC19 supercomputing conference in Denver was that capability class supercomputers are getting more and more expensive. …
Bending The Supercomputing Cost Curve Down was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia has for years made artificial intelligence (AI) and its various subsets – such as machine learning and deep learning – a foundation of future growth and sees it as a competitive advantage against rival Intel and a growing crop of smaller chip maker and newcomers looking to gain traction in a rapidly evolving IT environment. …
Nvidia Moves Clara Healthcare AI To The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Today's Network Break is an Analyst Holiday Party. Instead of news coverage, we examine a few broad topics including whether Kubernetes has legs in the enterprise, the complexities of multi-cloud, the recent financial woes of legacy networking vendors, and more. Our party guests are Eric Hanselman, Chief Analyst at 451 Research; Brad Casemore, Research VP of Data Center Networks at IDC; and Keith Townsend, founder of The CTO Advisor.
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In a previous blog I wrote about Getting Started with Automation Analytics, but now want to expand on what data is collected and how to gain access to that data. I highly recommend reading the previous blog if you are new to Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Ansible Tower concepts and our SaaS offerings. This is important to many customers because they all have their own security concerns with what data leaves their premises as well as obligations to their own customers and stakeholders to make sure data sent will not be compromised in any way.
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Gold-plated Internet access: Ulukhaktok, a small town in Canada’s Northwest Territories, is exploring ways to build its own broadband network after complaints of slow speeds and data caps, Vice.com reports. The price for exceeding the 10 GB data cap cost one resident $1,200 for the month. As part of the community-led effort, several residents have completed training on community networks with the Internet Society, which is supporting the project.
Editing ordered: Singapore’s government has ordered Facebook to “correct” a user’s post that contained accusations about the arrest of a supposed whistleblower and election rigging, in the first use of the country’s fake news law, Reuters says. The government called the allegations “false” and “scurrilous” and ordered blogger Alex Tan to issue a correction. But Tan does not live in Singapore and says he is an Australian citizen, and he refused to comply.
China joins in: Meanwhile, the Chinese government is targeting fake news and deep fake videos under new Internet content rules, Reuters reports. In addition, any use of AI or virtual reality needs to be clearly marked in a prominent manner in the government’s efforts against deep fakes. Failure to follow the rules could be considered a criminal Continue reading
During the Intel AI Summit earlier this month where the company demonstrated its initial processors for artificial intelligence training and inference workloads, Naveen Rao, corporate vice president and general manager of the Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel, spoke about the rapid pace of evolution in the AI space that also includes machine learning and deep learning. …
Keeping Pace In A Fast-Moving AI Space was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
I stumbled upon a great MIT Technology Review article (warning: regwall ahead) with a checklist you SHOULD use whenever considering a machine-learning-based product.
While the article focuses on machine learning at least some of the steps in that list apply to any new product that claims to use a brand new technology in a particular problem domain like overlay virtual networking with blockchain:
Read more ...Efficient lock-free durable sets Zuriel et al., OOPSLA’19
Given non-volatile memory (NVRAM), the naive hope for persistence is that it would be a no-op: what happens in memory, stays in memory. Unfortunately, a very similar set of issues to those concerned with flushing volatile memory to persistent disk exist here too, just at another level. Memory might be durable, but…
…it is expected that caches and registers will remain volatile. Therefore the state of data structures underlying standard algorithms might not be complete in the NVRAM view, and after a crash this view might not be consistent because of missed writes that were in the caches but did not reach the memory. Moreover, for better performance, the processor may change the order in which writes reach the NVRAM, making it difficult for the NVRAM to even reflect a consistent prefix of the computation.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
So, we’re going to need to take care that everything we say is committed is truly durable, and that we can recover to a consistent state following a crash. The traditional way to accomplish this is with a write-ahead log. You’ll no doubt be familiar with the phrase Continue reading
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