Inside Nvidia’s Next-Gen Saturn V AI Cluster

Generally speaking, the world’s largest chip makers have been pretty secretive about the giant supercomputers they use to design and test their devices, although occasionally, Intel and AMD have provided some insight into their clusters.

We have no idea what kind of resources Nvidia has for its EDA systems – we are trying to get some insight into that – but we do know that it has just upgraded a very powerful supercomputer to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence that is also doing double duty on some aspects of its chip design business.

As part of …

Inside Nvidia’s Next-Gen Saturn V AI Cluster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Worth Reading: Can technology help privacy evolve?

The topic of privacy came up over coffee, of course – and I was glad to hear that it is not only seen as a key issue for technology and governance, but it’s also seen as being closely interconnected with issues of cybersecurity. As readers of the Internet Society’s blogs will know, we think so too. You can’t have good privacy if you don’t have good security tools, and you can’t have good security in the absence of privacy. — Robin Wilton @ The Internet Society

IDG Contributor Network: New-gen technologies make IoT transformational

Over the last few years, many people—myself included—have been touting the Internet of Things (IoT) as a driving force behind digital transformation.But is IoT by itself truly that transformational?Well, I would argue that it is not.IoT focuses mainly on securely connecting devices that generate data. It is a key element of disruption and change, but it needs to partner with other technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and fog computing to create billions—some say trillions—of dollars in value and transform industries.Let’s take a closer look at these cross-technology relationships:AI is the brain, IoT is the body IoT and AI have a remarkably synergistic relationship. AI, especially machine learning, provides intelligence—the ability to evaluate options, learn from experience and make smart decisions. IoT, like the body, provides the ability to sense and act. IoT delivers both the data AI needs, and the physical means to act on AI’s decisions.  To read this article in full, please click here

Nuage Virtual Services Platform Supports Fujitsu’s Expansion of its Cloud Service

Fujitsu wants customers to move bare metal workloads to its K5 cloud, built on OpenStack.

Dell EMC Moves Hyperconverged Appliances onto Next-Gen Servers

Dell EMC’s cozy relationship with VMware has helped boost its HCI sales.

Network Virtualization to Determine Winner of Hybrid Cloud Computing Race

Network virtualization overlays will determine winner of hybrid cloud computing race.

The Redemption Of NFS

If thinking of NFS v4 puts a bad taste in your mouth, you are not alone. Or wrong. NFS v4.0 and v4.1 have had some valid, well-documented growing pains that include limited bandwidth and scalability. These issues were a result of a failure to properly address performance issues in the v4.0 release.

File systems are the framework upon which the entire house is built, so these performance issues were not trivial problems for us in IT. Thanks to the dedication of the NFS developer community, NFS v4.2 solves the problems of v4.0 and v4.1 and also introduces a host of …

The Redemption Of NFS was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Verizon Enterprise Launches Bundled VNS Pricing Scheme

Verizon also plans to integrate unified communications into the VNS platform.

Public – not hybrid – cloud dominates day 1 at Amazon re:Invent

There’s been a resurgence in the IaaS cloud computing market in the past year of vendors talking more and more about hybrid cloud computing.As the cloud market is maturing, users are crystalizing what workloads are best for public cloud and what will remain on premises or in a private cloud. At Amazon Web Service’s annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week, a big question heading into the show was: What would AWS say about hybrid?+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: What is hybrid cloud computing? +Hybrid has been somewhat of a taboo topic for AWS over the years. AWS CEO Andy Jassy has repeatedly maintained that “in the fullness of time” he expects most workloads will run in the public IaaS cloud. We’re not there yet, though. A 451 Research poll from last year found that just 6% of enterprise workloads are running in the cloud.To read this article in full, please click here

Verizon Will Light Up Fixed 5G in 3 to 5 Markets in 2018

Verizon said its tests have shown it can get coverage in partial line of sight scenarios.

Worth Reading: Openstack and CITC

In this blog post I will be discussing how I leveraged a flat network to initially create simple instance deployments. Then I’ll dive more deeply into how I created a VXLAN network for my OpenStack instances to create more scalable east-west communication. In the previous post I used the CITC console as my primary interface for configuration. This time I will be using an SSH client and the direct SSH information, as the outputs I’m gathering have wider width that is easier to obtain via an SSH client. —Rama Darbha @ Cumulus

Hospitals Untangling Infrastructure from Deep Learning Projects

Medical imaging is one areas where hospitals have invested significantly in on-premises infrastructure to support diagnostic analysis.

These investments have been stepped up in recent years with ever-more complex frameworks for analyzing scans, but as cloud continues to mature, the build versus buy hardware question gets more complicated. This is especially true with the addition to deep learning for medical images into more hospital settings—something that adds more hardware and software heft to an already top-heavy stack.

Earlier this week, we talked about the medical imaging revolution that is being driven forward by GPU accelerated deep learning, but as it …

Hospitals Untangling Infrastructure from Deep Learning Projects was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

CEO Succession at the Internet Society

Yesterday, Kathy Brown, the Internet Society’s President & CEO, wrote that she has informed the Board of Trustees that she will not seek another extension of her contract, which will end at the end of 2018.

Before I discuss the search and selection process ahead of us, on behalf of the whole Board I want to express our gratitude to Kathy for the strong leadership and commitment she has shown in taking the Internet Society forward. Kathy has worked tirelessly in the interests of the organization, always putting her job before herself. The changes she has brought about have been both deep and wide-ranging, and she has succeeded in readying the organization for the many challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

While the Board would have been happy for Kathy to continue as CEO for a further term, we also understand and respect the decision that she has taken to dedicate time to her family. When the time comes, I hope you will all join me in wishing Kathy the very best in her life after ISOC.

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IDG Contributor Network: The cloud is here to stay

The future of work is evolving at a rapid pace, and flexibility is at the forefront of the change. We’re talking about the ability to work anywhere, anytime, and from any device because technology enables a secure, integrated, and efficient way to work—not simply because company policy allows for flexibility in schedule or location.True flexibility enables collaboration, removes workflow roadblocks, and transforms how we interact with our physical environments, both in-office and elsewhere. The result is a seamless, intuitive way to work that increases productivity and engagement without compromise.The findings from our recent survey with Wakefield Research confirm this reality: while about a quarter (27%) of office professionals without a flexible work environment are concerned that implementing one would decrease productivity, half of those (50%) who do work in a flexible work environment note it has increased productivity. In addition, 87% of office professionals whose company has a flexible work environment report their company has experienced positive outcomes from the model.To read this article in full, please click here

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ION Belgrade: So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, do tada!

Deploy360 organised its fifth ION Conference of the year on 23 November 2017 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Belgrade, Serbia. This was co-located with RSNOG 3, the Republic of Serbia Network Operators Group meeting, and attracted over 85 participants.

This was also the occasion of our 25th and last ION Conference, as after a run of seven years, we plan to focus more on targeted events with regions. The Internet ON (ION) series of conferences started in San Francisco back in 2010, subsequently taking in 22 countries in five continents to raise awareness and encourage deployment of IPv6, DNSSEC, DANE, TLS and routing security. More than 2,000 participants from network operators, governments, academia and commercial enterprises have attended the conferences, and during this time global IPv6 deployment has increased from barely registering in 2010 to well over 20% today.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our series sponsor Afilias for making all this possible.

Turning to the event though, Megan Kruse opened the proceedings with an overview of the Deploy360 programme, followed by ISOC Board Member Desiree Miloshevic providing an update on the activities of our ISOC Serbia Belgrade Chapter.

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Noction releases IRP 3.9 with support for Ubuntu and the BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP)

Noction is pleased to announce the launch of the Intelligent Routing Platform 3.9. The most recent version is packed with new features

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Automate End-to-End Latency Measurements

Here’s another idea from the Building Network Automation Solutions online course: Ruben Tripiana decided to implement a latency measurement tool. His playbook takes a list of managed devices from Ansible inventory, generates a set of unique device pairs, measures latency between them, and produces a summary report (see also his description of the project).

OpenShift Ansible Broker: Available Now

Our Red Hat colleagues over on the OpenShift Container Platform team have announced the general availability of OpenShift Ansible Broker, which is a new way to easily orchestrate things external to an OpenShift-deployed containerized application by using Ansible automation. But just what is the OpenShift Ansible Broker, and how does it fit into the wider Ansible ecosystem?

At the simplest level, the Red Hat OpenShift team has given users a way to expose Ansible workloads in the OpenShift Container Platform Service Catalog via the Open Service Broker API.

If you haven’t already, we’d recommend you read What’s new in OpenShift 3.7 as this has a good explanation of the concepts and motivation behind the work.

This is a fantastic development that places Ansible in a prime position within the OpenShift Container Platform Service Broker and great news for the continued journey for Ansible as Red Hat’s language of automation. It extends the current capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with Ansible’s simple, powerful, and agentless capability, making the journey to hybrid cloud easier. There are some best practices about how you can use this new capability to achieve maximum benefit, and we’d like to discuss that here.

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Dell EMC Industry-Leading Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Solutions Gain PowerEdge Boost

Dell EMC to deliver hyper-converged infrastructure appliances on PowerEdge 14th generation servers Offers customers improved performance and reliability with the world’s most configurable hyper-converged infrastructure appliances as fully engineered systems with single source support1 Dell EMC VxRail customers to expect more powerful and predictable performance across millions of customized configurations to best optimize VMware vSAN... Read more →