Processor makers are pushing down the precision for a range of new and forthcoming devices, driven by a need that balances accuracy with energy-efficient performance for an emerging set of workloads.
While there will always be plenty of room at the server table for double-precision requirements, especially in high performance computing (HPC). machine learning and deep learning are spurring a fresh take on processor architecture—a fact that will have a trickle-down (or up, depending on how you consider it) effect on the hardware ecosystem in the next few years.
In the last year alone, the emphasis on lowering precision has …
High Times for Low-Precision Hardware was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
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Welcome to the first in our series of blog posts for Getting Started with Ansible Tower. This series covers basic installation and functions of Tower and an overview of how to use Tower to implement IT automation.
To get started with Tower, you must first learn to install and stand up a single host. Future posts will cover other types of configurations, such as a redundant installation with an external database. For this post, we’ll be highlighting RHEL 7 and Ubuntu LTS.
1. Download the latest Tower edition
If you haven’t already, visit this link to the trial page to have a download link sent to you. If you would like, our AMIs for AWS and our vagrant image are found there as well. If you have network restrictions, contact Ansible Sales and they can send you the bundled installer.
Note: We are currently working on a bundled installer for Ubuntu LTS, so the standard installer will install for Ubuntu.
2. Unpack the file (tar xzvf towerlatest)
$ tar xzvf towerlatest ansible-tower-setup-3.1.0/ ansible-tower-setup-3.1.0/group_vars/ ansible-tower-setup-3.1.0/group_vars/all ...
-tar xzvf towerbundlelatest
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I’ve had a little time readjusting after my exam and I’ve given some thought on what to keep me busy next.
Basically I have 3 projects to keep me busy for the next foreseeable future.
1) CCNA-Wireless
My boss came to me a week ago and tasked me with this. He was very humble about it, which was amusing. I will be allocated some time from my normal work projects to study for the exam, which is really helpful. Fortunally some of my CCDE study friends are also going for this exam, so I wont be going down the road alone on this one either.
Im actually quite positive about this as its a technology area I have not really paid much attention to and its very different in what im used to. A shakeup is good every now and then
2) The IOS-XR Specialist exam
This is one I have been looking quite forward to for some time. Its basically an exam about all things IOS-XR and the platforms that supports it. I tried studying for this before I decided to go down the CCDE path, so it will be nice to pick back up.
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Burst buffers are growing up—and growing out of the traditional realm of large-scale supercomputers, where they were devised primarily to solve the problems of failure at scale.
As we described in an interview with the creator of the burst buffer concept, Los Alamos National Lab’s Gary Grider, the “simple” problem of checkpointing and restarting a massive system after a crash with a fast caching layer would be more important as system sizes expanded—but the same approach could also extend to application acceleration. As the notion of burst buffers expanded beyond HPC, companies like EMC/NetApp, Cray, and DataDirect Networks (DDN) …
The Rise of Flash Native Cache was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Cloudflare has been a long time supporter of AMP, an open-source markup language 1.5 billion web pages are using to accelerate their mobile web performance. Cloudflare runs Ampersand, the only alternative to Google’s AMP cache, and earlier this year we launched Accelerated Mobile Links, a way for sites on Cloudflare to open external links on their site in AMP format, as well as Firebolt, leveraging AMP to speed up ad performance.
One of the biggest challenges developers face in converting their web pages to AMP is testing their AMP pages for valid AMP syntax before deploying. It's not enough to make the templates work at dev time, you also need to validate individual pages before they’re published. Imagine, for example, a publishing company where content creators who are unfamiliar with AMP are modifying pages. Because the AMP markup language is so strict, one person adding an interactive element to a page can all of a sudden break the AMP formatting and stop the page from validating.
We wanted to make it as easy as possible to move webpages and sites to AMP so we built an AMP linter API for developers to check that their Continue reading