Super Bowl LII set football and Wi-Fi network records

Super Bowl LII was played about a month ago, and much to the chagrin of New England Patriots fans, the team lost despite a number of records being set by Tom Brady and his team. In a losing effort, the QB threw for over 500 yards, something that had never been done before. Also, no losing team has ever had as many yards or points. It was certainly one of the most memorable games in recent history, particularly for the long-suffering Philadelphia Eagles fans.Records were also set in the stands with new highs in Wi-Fi network usage. For the fifth consecutive year, Extreme Networks was the Official WiFi Analytics provider of the Super Bowl, and its ExtremeAnalytics (formerly known as Purview) captured all the data transferred over the stadium Wi-Fi network. (Note: Extreme is a client of ZK Research.) The NFL and its individual teams have been using the data to better understand what fans do on their mobile devices during games in hopes of creating an overall better experience. Some of the highlights from the big game are listed below.To read this article in full, please click here

2018 European Chapters’ Meeting Travel Fellowship

  • This is the application for the Internet Society Travel Fellowship to the European Chapters' Meeting. The objective of the European Chapters' Meeting is to discuss Internet related topics that are relevant to the region, namely questions around the digital economy, local content, education, and how the organization's new campaign model will manifest in terms of regional activities. Fellowships will be awarded through a competitive application process.

    All applicants should be:

    • A member of the Internet Society
    • An individual who has not attended an European Chapters' Meeting in the past
    • Able to present a strong motivation for attending the European Chapters' Meeting

    The working language of the meeting is English. Individuals applying for the Fellowship should be comfortable and able to follow discussions in the English language.

    The 2018 European Chapters' Meeting will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria from 24-26 April.

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The Engine Of HPC And Machine Learning

There is no question right now that if you have a big computing job in either high performance computing – the colloquial name for traditional massively parallel simulation and modeling applications – or in machine learning – the set of statistical analysis routines with feedback loops that can do identification and transformation tasks that used to be solely the realm of humans – then an Nvidia GPU accelerator is the engine of choice to run that work at the best efficiency.

It is usually difficult to make such clean proclamations in the IT industry, with so many different kinds of …

The Engine Of HPC And Machine Learning was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Single-Image Systems or Automated Fabrics

In the Network Automation 101 webinar and Building Network Automation Solutions online course I described one of the biggest challenges the networking engineers are facing today: moving from thinking about boxes and configuring individual devices to thinking about infrastructure and services, and changing data models which result in changed device configurations.

The $1B question is obviously: and how do we get from here to there?

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CI/CD For Networking Part 5

Ansible AWX is the upstream open source project to Ansible Tower. For this part of the series AWX will be installed on a Centos 7 minimal host with the firewall service disabled and SELinux set to permissive. Nginx will be utilized as a reverse proxy for HTTP/S traffic to the AWX...

The Future of Cognitive Cloud Networking

AI-Blog2

Artificial Intelligence, machine and deep learning have to be among the most popular tech-words of the past few years, and I was hoping that I wouldn’t get swept away by it. But when I heard a panel on this topic at our customer event this month on the state of AI networks, I found it incredibly fascinating and it piqued my curiosity! Let me start with a note of disclaimer for readers who are expecting a deep tutorial from me. There is a vast amount of research behind models and algorithms on this topic that I will not even attempt to cover. Instead I will try to share some thoughts on the practical relevance of this promising field.

The Future of Cognitive Cloud Networking

AI-Blog2

Artificial Intelligence, machine and deep learning have to be among the most popular tech-words of the past few years, and I was hoping that I wouldn’t get swept away by it. But when I heard a panel on this topic at our customer event this month on the state of AI networks, I found it incredibly fascinating and it piqued my curiosity! Let me start with a note of disclaimer for readers who are expecting a deep tutorial from me. There is a vast amount of research behind models and algorithms on this topic that I will not even attempt to cover. Instead I will try to share some thoughts on the practical relevance of this promising field.

Deep Learning on HPC Systems for Astronomy

On today’s episode of “The Interview” with The Next Platform we talk about the use of petascale supercomputers for training deep learning algorithms. More specifically, how this happening in Astronomy to enable real-time analysis of LIGO detector data.

We are joined by Daniel George, a researcher in the Gravity Group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, or NCSA. His team garnered a great deal of attention at the annual supercomputing conference in November with work blending traditional HPC simulation data and deep learning.

George and his team have shown that deep learning with convolutional neural networks can provide many …

Deep Learning on HPC Systems for Astronomy was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

First Look at the DockerCon San Francisco 2018 Agenda

From June 12th – 15th, San Francisco will welcome 6,000+ developers, sysadmins, architects, VP of Apps and other IT leaders to get hands-on with the latest innovations in the container ecosystem at DockerCon 2018. Today, we are excited to share a first look at the DockerCon Agenda. We’ve brought back some of your favorite from past DockerCons and are also thrilled to welcome many first time DockerCon speakers to the stage. Here is a first look at some of our favorites sessions:

 

DockerCon

Customers in Production  

Use case sessions highlight how companies are using Docker to modernize their infrastructure and build, manage and secure  distributed applications. These sessions are heavy on business value, ROI and production implementation advice, and learnings.

  • Building your NoSQL ship: How an Enterprise transitioned from a RDBMS to NoSQL DB using Agile and Docker by Jonell Taylor, Metlife
  • Black Friday and 100K Deployments Per Year by Srikanth Bulusu & Sanjoy Mukherjee, JCPenney
  • Packaging Software for Distribution on the Edge with Docker and Windows Server
    Peter Ngai, GE Digital

Using Docker

Using Docker sessions are introductory sessions for Docker users, dev and ops alike. Filled with practical advice, learnings, and insight, these sessions will Continue reading

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