Niki Vonderwell kindly invited me to Troopers 2017 and I decided to talk about security and reliability aspects of network automation.
The presentation is available on my web site, and I’ll post the link to the video when they upload it. An extended version of the presentation will eventually become part of Network Automation Use Cases webinar.
In my list of proposed 2017 projects, I mentioned that I wanted to launch an open source book project. In late February, I launched The Open vSwitch Cookbook, an unofficial—as in not formally affiliated with the Open vSwitch (OVS) project—effort to gather together OVS “recipes” into an open source book. Today, I’m shutting down that project, and here’s why.
It really comes down to wanting to be a better member of the OVS community. I honestly hadn’t anticipated that the OVS community might prefer that the information I was going to gather in these “recipes” be collected in the OVS documentation (which has undergone a tremendous transformation). Instead of creating yet another source of information for OVS, I’ll focus my efforts on expanding the upstream documentation. This will take some effort on my part—I’ll need to learn reStructuredText and spend some time understanding how the docs are organized now—but I think that it’s the better long-term option for the OVS community as a whole.
And what about my goal for launching an open source book project? I’ll continue to evaluate options on that front to see if it makes sense, and I’ll post here if and when something happens.
If the name Kwabena Boahen sounds familiar, you might remember silicon that emerged in the late 1990s that emulated the human retina.
This retinomorphic vision system, which Boahen developed while at Caltech under VLSI and neuromorphic computing pioneer, Carver Meade, introduced ideas that are just coming around into full view again in the last couple of years—computer vision, artificial intelligence, and of course, brain-inspired architectures that route for efficiency and performance. The rest of his career has been focused on bringing bioinspired engineering to a computing industry that is hitting a major wall in coming years—and at a time …
Stanford Brainstorm Chip to Hints at Neuromorphic Computing Future was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
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Thanks to all who joined us for the Mellanox & Microsoft webinar where they showcased how SONiC platform can be utilized to scale cloud data centers. Read the full Q&A here.
The vMX is deployed on x86 servers via a software license.