The Internet of Things (IoT) has been brewing for many years–but how do all these new devices impact your network? Are there new concepts and architectures you need to learn to get a handle on IoT? Jasbir Singh, author of a new book on IoT architecture, joins Tom and Russ for this episode of the Hedge.
We have five decades of very fine-grained analysis of CPU compute engines in the datacenter, and changes come at a steady but glacial pace when it comes to CPU serving. …
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The Datacenter GPU Gravy Train That No One Will Derail was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
I’m not a wireless engineer by trade. I don’t have a lab of access points that I’m using to test the latest and greatest solutions. I leave that to my friends. I fall more in the camp of having a working wireless network that meets my needs and keeps my family from yelling at me when the network is down.
For the last five years my house has been running on Ubiquiti gear. You may recall I did a review back in 2018 after having it up and running for a few months. Since then I’ve had no issues. In fact, the only problem I had was not with the gear but with the machine I installed the controller software on. Turns out hard disk drives do eventually go bad and I needed to replace it and get everything up and running again. Which was my intention when it went down sometime in 2021. Of course, life being what it is I deprioritized the recovery of the system. I realized after more than a year that my wireless network hadn’t hiccuped once. Sure, I couldn’t make any changes to it but the joy of having a stable environment Continue reading
What do you get when you write code next to a Christmas tree? You can expect to get tons of eye candy, and that’s what netlab release 1.7.1 is all about.
It all started with a cleanup idea: I could replace the internal ASCII table-drawing code with the prettytable library. Stefan was quick to point out that I should be looking at the rich library, and the rest is history:
What do you get when you write code next to a Christmas tree? You can expect to get tons of eye candy, and that’s what netlab release 1.7.1 is all about.
It all started with a cleanup idea: I could replace the internal ASCII table-drawing code with the prettytable library. Stefan was quick to point out that I should be looking at the rich library, and the rest is history:
Commissioned: After two years of collective confinement, the world’s population rushed outdoors with a passion. …
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Urban mobility transformation enhances the “Fast” but removes the “Furious” was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
For traditional HPC workloads, AMD’s MI250X is still a powerhouse when it comes to double precision floating point grunt. …
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Sometimes The Best AI Accelerator Is The 37,888 GPUs You Already Have was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED FEATURE: The next generation internet is all about experience. Hyperscalers like Google, Azure and Facebook epitomize the importance of both technological and customer experience. …
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Why hyperscale networks have been decades in the making was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
I published dozens of free-to-download slide decks on ipSpace.net. Downloading them required the free ipSpace.net subscription which is no longer available because I refuse to play a whack-a-mole game with spammers.
You might like the workaround I had to implement to keep those PDFs accessible: they are no longer behind a regwall.
You can find the list of all the free content ipSpace.net content here. The Conferences and Presentations page is another source of links to public presentations.
I published dozens of free-to-download slide decks on ipSpace.net. Downloading them required the free ipSpace.net subscription which is no longer available because I refuse to play a whack-a-mole game with spammers.
You might like the workaround I had to implement to keep those PDFs accessible: they are no longer behind a regwall.
You can find the list of all the free content ipSpace.net content here. The Conferences and Presentations page is another source of links to public presentations.
Is network engineering still cool?
It certainly doesn’t seem like it, does it? College admissions seem to be down in the network engineering programs I know of, and networking certifications seem to be down, too. Maybe we’ve just passed the top of the curve, and computer networking skills are just going the way of coopering. Let’s see if we can sort out the nature of this malaise and possible solutions. Fair warning—this is going to take more than one post.
Let’s start here: It could be that computer networking is a solved problem, and we just don’t need network engineers any longer.
I’ve certainly heard people say these kinds of things—for instance, one rather well-known network engineer said, just a few years back, that network engineers would no longer be needed in five years. According to this view, the entire network should be like a car. You get in, turn the key, and it “just works.” There shouldn’t be any excitement or concern about a commodity like transporting packets. Another illustration I’ve heard used is “network bandwidth should just be like computer memory—if you need more, add it.”
Does this really hold, though? Even if we accept the Continue reading
It looks like Hewlett Packard Enterprise might be having a datacenter networking revival. …
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Why Would HPE Buy Juniper Networks? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.