The government of the United Kingdom is plunking down £79 million to purchase and operate ARCHER2, the country’s soon-to-be national supercomputer on track to be installed at the University of Edinburgh next year. … “UK’s ARCHER2 Supercomputer Aims Squarely At The CPU Bullseye”
UK’s ARCHER2 Supercomputer Aims Squarely At The CPU Bullseye was written by Michael Feldman at .
Chris Crook decided to work on a pretty typical problem for his second hands-on assignment in the Building Network Automation Solutions online course: create a network diagram from adjacency data.
He decided to rely on BGP adjacencies (I would usually use LLDP) and added an interesting twist: instead of Ansible he used Nornir with NAPALM.
Read more ...Denise "Fish" Fishburne chats with Ethan Banks. The conversation covers being arrested at 19 for DUI, being gay in the corporate world of the 80's and 90's, overcoming the challenge of being easily bored, teaching without ego, struggling with a distrust of others, the myth of the self-made person, and becoming an active member of the "Network Neighborhood."
For Denise, it's all about community. "All for one, and one for all."
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I've been asking myself an uncomfortable question lately: “Can IT certifications become a liability? Have I reached a point where my IT certifications have become a liability to me?”
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced Kubernetes 1.14, which includes support for Windows nodes. Kubernetes supporting Windows is a monumental step for the industry and it further confirms the work Docker has been doing with Microsoft to develop Windows containers over the past five years. It is evidence that containers are not just for Linux; Windows and .NET applications represent an important and sizeable footprint of applications that can benefit from both the Docker platform and Kubernetes.
Docker’s collaboration with Microsoft started five years ago. Today, every version of Windows Server 2016 and later ships with the Docker Engine – Enterprise. In addition, to facilitate a great user experience with Windows containers, Microsoft publishes more than 129 Windows container images of its popular software on Docker Hub. Many Docker Enterprise customers are already running mixed Windows and Linux containers with Swarm, and an upcoming release of Docker Enterprise will allow our customers to expand their Windows options to Kubernetes as well. Today both Docker Enterprise and Docker Desktop users have found that the easiest way to use and manage Kubernetes is with Docker and now these users will have the same benefits with Windows containers as well.
What do I consider important for the next generation of networking
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A recent Rightscale enterprise survey found 48 percent of enterprises use Kubernetes to manage...
Andy Purdy argues that the best approach to security is to require a diversity of suppliers and...
Today's Tech Bytes episode explores new features in sponsor Nubeva's cloud packet broker, including packet processing capabilities, integration with open-source tools such as ntop and Zeek, and its ability to work with cloud-native taps such as Azure VTAPs.
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Grey Failures in the Real World
Most “smaller scale” operators probably believe they are not impacted by grey failures, but this is probably not true. Given the law of large numbers, there must be some number of grey failures in some percentage of smaller networks simply because there are so many of them. What is interesting about grey failures is there is so little study in this area; since these errors can exist in a network for years without being discovered, they are difficult to track down and repair, and they are often “fixed” by someone randomly doing things in surrounding systems that end up performing an “unintentional repair” (for instance by resetting some software state through a reboot). It is interesting, then, to see a group of operators collating the grey failures they have seen across a number of larger scale networks.
Some interesting results of the compilation are covered in a table early in the document. One of these is that grey Continue reading
A1 rivals have so far been using China-based vendors ZTE and Huawei.
There is a rumor going around that a certain hyperscaler is going to be augmenting its GPU-based machine learning training and will be adopting Intel’s Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP) for at least some of its workloads. … “How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training”
How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The layoffs follow the recent departures of two top cloud executives. Both quit Oracle to join...