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:

 

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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

What is 802.11ax Wi-Fi, and what will it mean for 802.11ac

Each new Wi-Fi standard has brought significant improvements in performance, with the most recent, 802.11ac, offering an impressive theoretical maximum rate of 1.3Gbps.  Unfortunately, these gains have not been enough to keep pace with demand, leading to that exasperated cry heard across airports, malls, hotels, stadiums, homes and offices: “Why is the wireless so slow?”The IEEE is taking another crack at boosting Wi-Fi performance with a new standard called 802.11ax or High-Efficiency Wireless, which promises a fourfold increase in average throughput per user.RELATED: Can MU-MIMO really boost wireless capacity? 802.11: Wi-Fi standards and speeds explained Wi-Fi 2018: What does the future look like? 802.11ax is designed specifically for high-density public environments, like trains, stadiums and airports. But it also will be beneficial in Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, in heavy-usage homes, in apartment buildings and in offices that use bandwidth-hogging applications like videoconferencing.To read this article in full, please click here

What is 802.11ax Wi-Fi, and what will it mean for 802.11ac

Each new Wi-Fi standard has brought significant improvements in performance, with the most recent, 802.11ac, offering an impressive theoretical maximum rate of 1.3Gbps.  Unfortunately, these gains have not been enough to keep pace with demand, leading to that exasperated cry heard across airports, malls, hotels, stadiums, homes and offices: “Why is the wireless so slow?”The IEEE is taking another crack at boosting Wi-Fi performance with a new standard called 802.11ax or High-Efficiency Wireless, which promises a fourfold increase in average throughput per user.RELATED: Can MU-MIMO really boost wireless capacity? 802.11: Wi-Fi standards and speeds explained Wi-Fi 2018: What does the future look like? 802.11ax is designed specifically for high-density public environments, like trains, stadiums and airports. But it also will be beneficial in Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, in heavy-usage homes, in apartment buildings and in offices that use bandwidth-hogging applications like videoconferencing.To read this article in full, please click here

EVPN’s 4 critical benefits for digital transformation

Digital transformation demands more of everything: speed, throughput, agility and scalability. That’s why organizations are rethinking traditional layer 2 switched data center architectures and moving towards intelligent layer 3 routed network designs. With a layer 3 architecture, your data center can use proven routing protocols to simplify troubleshooting, facilitate upgrades, scale efficiently and converge traffic.

But what about the applications, storage appliances and multi-tenant environments that still require traditional layer 2 connectivity? Legacy protocols that enable layer 2 traffic to run over a layer 3 routed infrastructure have significant limitations that become serious obstacles when the data center must scale, accommodate multiple vendors’ systems or support multi-tenancy. Fortunately, there’s a scalable, simple, non-proprietary solution. Enter EVPN.

Cumulus’ unique Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) solution offers unmatched interoperability and efficiency. By adding VXLAN distributed routing, Cumulus EVPN undoes all of the complications of layer 2 connectivity and frees you from reliance on proprietary controllers. Looking for proof that EVPN delivers on that promise? We’ve got plenty of evidence, so here’s four major advantages of utilizing EVPN to meet the demands of digital transformation.

1) Accommodate growth without disruption

With Cumulus EVPN, you can quickly and Continue reading

memcached Reflection/Amplification Description and DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations

ASERT Threat Summary: memcached Reflection/Amplification Description and DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations Date/Time: 27022018 2325UTC Title/Number: memcached Reflection/Amplification Description and DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations – February 2018 – v1.4. Severity: Critical Distribution: TLP WHITE (see <https://www.us-cert.gov/tlp>) Categories: Availability Authors: Roland Dobbins & Steinthor Bjarnason Contributors: Keshav […]

memcached Reflection/Amplification Description and DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations

ASERT Threat Summary: memcached Reflection/Amplification Description and DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations Date/Time: 27022018 1645UTC Title/Number: memcached Reflection/Amplification Description and DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations – February 2018 – v1.3. Severity: Critical Distribution: TLP WHITE (see <https://www.us-cert.gov/tlp>) Categories: Availability Authors: Roland Dobbins & Steinthor Bjarnason Contributors: Luan Nguyen, […]

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BrandPost: Delivering “Always-On” Technology to Meet the Demands of Today’s Business

Virtually every small and medium-sized business is now driven by digital technologies. From our phones and PCs to the critical business applications that form the basis of business operations, our workday has become dependent on devices and the systems they are connected to. In addition to supporting employees, our customers and partners are constantly interacting with our systems. Outages are unacceptable. If our systems go down, business stops. This impacts employees, partners, and customers. And it’s not just an inconvenience; it costs the business money.Unfortunately, many businesses with 100-1,000 employees are using legacy server rooms or data centers that were built in the days before “always-on” became the requirement. A decade ago, downtime was hidden from customers and partners, and employees could work around a problem, staying somewhat productive. That’s no longer the case. Downtime is a disaster. And in many cases, downtime can result in lost data and corrupt systems, making the cost of recovery even greater. In some industries, data lost during an outage also creates a “compliance event,” which is never “career enhancing” for an IT professional.To read this article in full, please click here

CEO Succession at the Internet Society – Status update (Feb 2018)

This is a status update on where we are in the CEO search process. In my last note to the community, I explained that we were finishing the selection of a search firm to support us during the process and that we were planning to launch an open call for candidates in February.

After issuing an RFP and conducting a set of interviews with several firms, the CEO Search Committee selected a search firm. The selected firm is Perrett Laver.

Based on, among other things, all the community feedback we have received on the following email address (you can still send your input to that address), the CEO Search Committee has developed a draft job description:

[email protected]

In order to refine the job description and to make sure we gather all the input we need, the search firm is going to conduct informational interviews with the leadership of our communities. Accordingly, they are going to interview the chairs of the OMAC (Organization Advisory Council), the ChAC (Chapters Advisory Council), and the IETF (the chairs of the IAB and the IAOC will also be interviewed). ISOC’s executive team (staff) will also be interviewed. You can also talk with Continue reading

The New HPE Sheriff Lays Down The Hybrid IT Law

There is a new sheriff in town at Hewlett Packard Enterprise – that would be chief executive officer Antonio Neri – and that means a new way of looking at the books and therefore steering the business. No, we didn’t mean that the other way around.

In opening up its books for the first quarter of its fiscal 2018 year, which ended in January, we can see some important things about HPE’s business, and at the same time, we have lost some visibility about core parts of its business.

First of all, the books have been reclassified significantly in the …

The New HPE Sheriff Lays Down The Hybrid IT Law was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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