Taalas Etches AI Models Onto Transistors To Rocket Boost Inference
Adding big blocks of SRAM to collections of AI tensor engines, or better still, a waferscale collection of such engines, turbocharges AI inference, as has been shown time and again by AI upstarts Cerebras Systems, SambaNova Systems (which Intel is rumored to have taken a run at late last year), Groq (just eaten by Nvidia for $20 billion), and Graphcore (eaten by SoftBank for $600 million a year and a half ago) as they compare against GPUs from Nvidia and AMD. …
Taalas Etches AI Models Onto Transistors To Rocket Boost Inference was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
N4N049: Understanding Firewalls
Today, Ethan and Holly provide an overview of firewalls. While cybersecurity is a separate discipline from network engineering, much of what happens in cybersecurity is interesting at the packet level, so there’s a good deal of overlap. It’s likely that as a network engineer, you’ll be managing, or at least dealing with, firewalls in your... Read more »IPB194: Navel Gazing at NAT in IPv6
Ed, Nick, and Tom discuss the need for Network Address Translation v6 to v6 (NAT66). While Network Prefix Translation (NPTv6) exists, its limitations make it insufficient for real-world business needs. They also highlight that without a standardized NAT66, the market is forcing vendors to implement their own, hindering widespread IPv6 adoption. Episode Links: IPv6-to-IPv6 Network... Read more »Cisco IOS/XR OSPFv2 Not-So-Passive Interfaces
What’s wrong with me? Why do I have to uncover another weirdness every single time I run netlab integration tests on a new platform? Today, it’s Cisco IOS/XR (release 25.2.1) and its understanding of what “passive” means. According to the corresponding documentation, the passive interface configuration command is exactly what I understood it to be:
Use the passive command in appropriate mode to suppress the sending of OSPF protocol operation on an interface.
However, when I ran the OSPFv2 passive interface integration test with an IOS/XR container, it kept failing with neighbor is in Init state (the first and only time I ever encountered such an error after testing over two dozen platforms).
Some Game Theory On That Nvidia-Meta Platforms Partnership
When Meta Platforms does a big AI system deal with Nvidia, that usually means that some other open hardware plan that the company had can’t meet an urgent need for compute. …
Some Game Theory On That Nvidia-Meta Platforms Partnership was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
D2DO294: AI in My Vuln Research Workflow
Kat Traxler, Principal Security Researcher at Vectra AI, returns to the podcast to discuss her AI-powered vulnerability research workflow. She explains how she uses two different AI models to act as the “blackboard” while she applies her expertise to triage AI-generated ideas to increase her productivity. She also asks a concerning question: As AI automates... Read more »Introducing NETWORKGEEKTOOLS.COM
Whether you’re a network engineer troubleshooting a routing issue at 2 AM, a sysadmin verifying DNS propagation after a migration, or a developer checking why your API endpoint isn’t reachable … Read MoreEVPN IP-VRFs on Cisco IOS/XE: Configuration Notes
Last week, I described some of the gotchas I encountered while trying to make EVPN MAC-VRFs work on Cisco IOS/XE. In the meantime, I got IP-VRFs with transit VXLAN segments working. Here are the CliffsNotes:
Starting with the disgusting configuration mechanism:
Project Calico 3.30+ Hackathon: Show Us What You Can Build!
Build the Future of Cloud-Native Networking! 
The Calico community moves fast. With the releases of Calico 3.30 and 3.31, brings improvements in scalability, network security, and visibility. Now, we want to see what YOU can do with them!
We’re excited to officially invite you to the Project Calico 3.30+ Community Hackathon.
Whether you’re a seasoned eBPF expert or a newcomer to the Gateway API, we welcome your innovation and your ideas!
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What’s in the Toolkit?
What’s in the Toolkit?We’ve packed Calico 3.30+ with powerful features ready for you to hack on:
Goldmane & Whisker: High-performance flow insights meets a sleek, operator-friendly UI.- Staged Policies: The “Safety First” way to test Zero Trust before enforcing it.
- Calico Ingress Gateway: Modern, Envoy-powered traffic management via the Gateway API.
- Calico Cloud Ready: Connect open-source clusters to a free-forever, read-only tier for instant visualization and troubleshooting.
- IPAM for Load Balancers: Consistent IP strategies for MetalLB and beyond.
- Advanced QoS: Fine-grained bandwidth and packet rate controls.
Goldmane & Whisker: High-performance flow insights meets a sleek, operator-friendly UI.
Inspiration: What Can You Build?
Inspiration: What Can You Build?Whether you’re a networking guru or an automation Continue reading
AI Eats The World, And Most Of Its Flash Storage
If you want to be in the DRAM and flash memory markets, you had better enjoy rollercoasters. …
AI Eats The World, And Most Of Its Flash Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.