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Fewer companies know how to build world spanning distributed services than there are countries with nuclear weapons. Facebook is one of those companies and Facebook Live, Facebook’s new live video streaming product, is one one of those services.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg:
The big decision we made was to shift a lot of our video efforts to focus on Live, because it is this emerging new format; not the kind of videos that have been online for the past five or ten years...We’re entering this new golden age of video. I wouldn’t be surprised if you fast-forward five years and most of the content that people see on Facebook and are sharing on a day-to-day basis is video.
If you are in the advertising business what could better than a supply of advertising ready content that is never ending, always expanding, and freely generated? It’s the same economics Google exploited when it started slapping ads on an exponentially growing web.
An example of Facebook’s streaming prowess is a 45 minute video of two people exploding a watermelon with rubber bands. It reached a peak of over 800,000 simultaneous viewers who also racked up over 300,000 comments. That’s Continue reading
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Since the 1990s, MPI (Message Passing Interface) has been the dominant communications protocol for high-performance scientific and commercial distributed computing. Designed in an era when processors with two or four cores were considered high-end parallel devices, the recent move to processors containing tens to a few hundred cores (as exemplified by the current Intel Xeon and Intel Xeon Phi processor families) has exacerbated scaling issues inside MPI itself. Increased network traffic, amplified by high performance communications fabrics such as InfiniBand and Intel Omni-Path Architecture (Intel OPA) manifest an MPI performance and scaling issue.
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Mitigating MPI Message Matching Issues was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.