A research collaboration between the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is demonstrating the value of using machine learning to overcome daunting computational challenges. …
Stage Set for Richer Machine Learning-Infused HPC was written by Michael Feldman at .
The data center server vendor made several smart partnerships around HCI and cloud last year, and now it’s moving into edge and IoT.
This is the text I prepared for a talk at Speck&Tech in Trento, Italy. I thought it might make a good blog post. Because it is 6,000 words I've split it into six separate posts.
Here's part 1:
I’ve worked at Cloudflare for more than seven years. Cloudflare itself is more than eight years old. So, I’ve been there since it was a very small company. About twenty people in fact. All of those people (except one, me) worked from an office in San Francisco. I was the lone member of the London office.
Today there are 900 people working at Cloudflare spread across offices in San Francisco, Austin, Champaign IL, New York, London, Munich, Singapore and Beijing. In London, my “one-person office” (which was my spare bedroom) is now almost 200 people and in a month, we’ll move into new space opposite Big Ben.
The numbers tell a story about enormous growth. But it’s growth that’s been very carefully managed. We could have grown much faster (in terms of people); we’ve certainly raised enough money to do so.
I ended up at Cloudflare because I gave a really good talk at a conference. Well, Continue reading
Welcome to Technology Short Take #110! Here’s a look at a few of the articles and posts that have caught my attention over the last few weeks. I hope something I’ve included here is useful for you also!
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Erik Dietrich (of the Expert Beginner fame) published another great blog post explaining when and why you should write a book. For the attention-challenged here’s my CliffNotes version:
Fixed it for you: protocol repair using lineage graphs Oldenburg et al., CIDR’19
This is a cool paper on a number of levels. Firstly, the main result that catches my eye is that it’s possible to build a distributed systems ‘debugger’ that can suggest protocol-level fixes. E.g. say you have a system that sometimes sends acks before it really should, resulting in the possibility of state loss. Nemo can uncover this and suggest a change to the protocol that removes the window. Secondly, it uses an obscure (from the perspective of most readers of this blog) programming language called Dedalus. Dedalus is a great example of how a different programming paradigm can help us to think about a problem differently and generate new insights and possibilities. (Dedalus is a temporal logic programming language based on datalog). Now, it would be easy for practitioner readers to immediately dismiss the work as not relevant to them given they won’t be coding systems in Dedalus anytime soon. The third thing I want to highlight in this introduction therefore is the research strategy:
Nemo operates on an idealized model in which distributed executions are centrally simulated, record-level provenance of these Continue reading
In our last post we covered the basics of getting an RSVP LSP setup. This was a tedious process at least when compared to what we saw with LDP setting up LSPs. So I think it’s worthwhile to spend some time talking about RSVP and what it offers that merit it’s consideration as a label distribution protocol. First off – let’s talk about naming. When talking about MPLS – RSVP is typically just called RSVP – but without the MPLS context – it might be a little confusing. That’s because RSVP itself initially had nothing to do with MPLS. RSVP was initially a means to reserve resources for flows across a network. The protocol was then extended to support setting up MPLS LSPs. In this use case, it is often referred to as “RSVP-TE” or “MPLS RSVP-TE”. For the sake of my sanity – when I reference RSVP going forward I’ll be referring to RSVP that’s used to setup MPLS LSPs.
So now let’s talk about some differences between LDP and RSVP. The first thing that everyone points out is that LDP is tightly bound to the underlying IGP. While this is an accurate statement, it doesn’t mean that RSVP Continue reading
Event-Driven automation is an umbrella term much like "coffee" (also see here, it turns out I’ve used coffee anecdotes way too much). How many times do you go to a popular chain and just blurt out "coffee". At 5am, it might be the nonsensical mysterious noise automagically leaving one’s mouth but once we decide it’s bean time, we get to the specifics.
There are multiple tools that give you different capabilities. Some are easier to get started with than others and some are feature rich and return high yields of capability against invested time.
Friendly dictator advice; try not to get wrapped up in the message bus used or data encapsulation methodologies. Nerdy fun, but fairly pointless when it comes to convincing anyone or organisation to make a fundamental shift.
Event-Driven is about receiving a WebHook and annoying people on Slack
This is a terrible measure and one we needed to have dropped yesterday. In more programming languages than I can remember, I’ve written the infamous "Hello World" and played with such variables, struct instances and objects as the infamous "foo" and the much revered "bar". Using an automation platform to receive an HTTP post and updating a support Continue reading
NetScout expects to start to see the benefits of 5G as well as its restructuring and headcount reduction plans over the coming quarters.
The test took place at Verizon’s 5G test bed in Houston. Company engineers installed the equipment and software at a network facility closer to the network edge.
There are two strategic elements to the platform: One is that Dell considers mid-market security to be an underserved market. The other is that endpoints are particularly vulnerable.
AvidThink (formerly SDxCentral Research) has put together a research brief that explains the infrastructure changes required, and the role that software-defined and cloud-native technologies will play in the 5G world, including supporting network slicing.
Seven months after being named Interim CEO, Intel makes it official.