Stretching Software Across Future Exascale Systems

If money was no object, then arguably the major nations of the world that always invest heavily in supercomputing would have already put an exascale class system into the field. But money always matters and ultimately supercomputers have to justify their very existence by enabling scientific breakthroughs and enhancing national security.

This, perhaps, is why the Exascale Computing Project establish by the US government last summer is taking such a measured pace in fostering the technologies that will ultimately result in bringing three exascale-class systems with two different architectures into the field after the turn of the next decade. The …

Stretching Software Across Future Exascale Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Worth Reading: Converged systems hype

Converged systems are a hot commodity in the IT sector these days. But it looks to us like the hype over various kinds of integrated systems that weld servers and storage together into preconfigured stacks including hyperconverged stacks that literally merge the compute and storage layers on the same servers – is just a bit bigger than the appetite for such iron in the datacenters of the world. -The Next Platform

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IDG Contributor Network: Cajun redux? Avaya’s focus on data networking misses the mark

While channel surfing recently I landed on a reality TV show where people bid on abandoned homes without knowing what’s inside. Occasionally, something of true value is found—maybe even something that might make the new owners wealthy. One might say that something like this happened when Avaya acquired Nortel Enterprise Solutions (NES) in 2009.Comparatively, Avaya inherited rooms upon rooms where old Aunt Norty had stashed the detritus of her life. There were, however, many treasures. One find, known today as the company’s SDN Fx™ Architecture, might be compared to a Picasso found stashed away in the attic. That’s the good news.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Cajun redux? Avaya’s focus on data networking misses the mark

While channel surfing recently I landed on a reality TV show where people bid on abandoned homes without knowing what’s inside. Occasionally, something of true value is found—maybe even something that might make the new owners wealthy. One might say that something like this happened when Avaya acquired Nortel Enterprise Solutions (NES) in 2009.Comparatively, Avaya inherited rooms upon rooms where old Aunt Norty had stashed the detritus of her life. There were, however, many treasures. One find, known today as the company’s SDN Fx™ Architecture, might be compared to a Picasso found stashed away in the attic. That’s the good news.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Check this out: Walmart Pay for iOS & Android can now be used in all of retailer’s US stores

The following email subject lines appeared in my inbox on Wednesday just a couple of hours apart:* Walmart Pay Now Available in all Walmart Stores Nationwide (from Walmart PR)* Map of Walmart store closings (from a market research firm making a larger point about rapid changes in retail and consumer packaged goods markets) My first thought, upon noticing the juxtaposition, was well, having 154 fewer stores in the US this year probably made it easier for Walmart to roll out its mobile payment app nationwide.MORE: 7 reasons mobile payments still aren't mainstreamTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Check this out: Walmart Pay for iOS & Android can now be used in all of retailer’s US stores

The following email subject lines appeared in my inbox on Wednesday just a couple of hours apart:* Walmart Pay Now Available in all Walmart Stores Nationwide (from Walmart PR)* Map of Walmart store closings (from a market research firm making a larger point about rapid changes in retail and consumer packaged goods markets) My first thought, upon noticing the juxtaposition, was well, having 154 fewer stores in the US this year probably made it easier for Walmart to roll out its mobile payment app nationwide.MORE: 7 reasons mobile payments still aren't mainstreamTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Here’s how secret voice commands could hijack your smartphone

Kitten videos are harmless, right? Except when they take over your phone. Researchers have found something new to worry about on the internet. It turns out that a muffled voice hidden in an innocuous YouTube video could issue commands to a nearby smartphone without you even knowing it. The researchers describe the threat in a research paper to be presented next month at the USENIX Security Symposium in Austin, Texas. They also demonstrate it in this video. Voice recognition has taken off quickly on phones, thanks to services like Google Now and Apple's Siri, but voice software can also make it easier to hack devices, warned Micah Sherr, a Georgetown University professor and one of the paper’s authors.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Here’s how secret voice commands could hijack your smartphone

Kitten videos are harmless, right? Except when they take over your phone. Researchers have found something new to worry about on the internet. It turns out that a muffled voice hidden in an innocuous YouTube video could issue commands to a nearby smartphone without you even knowing it. The researchers describe the threat in a research paper to be presented next month at the USENIX Security Symposium in Austin, Texas. They also demonstrate it in this video. Voice recognition has taken off quickly on phones, thanks to services like Google Now and Apple's Siri, but voice software can also make it easier to hack devices, warned Micah Sherr, a Georgetown University professor and one of the paper’s authors.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

DockerCon 2016 Videos: Black Belt Track

Videos from the Black Belt track at DockerCon 2016 are now posted online!

Black Belt talks are advanced technical deep dives presented by Docker experts. These sessions are code and demo heavy and light on the slides. From Docker internals to advanced container orchestration, security and networking, this track should delight most container ninjas.

Watch all of the sessions from the Black Belt track below or head to YouTube for the DockerCon 2016 playlist to watch more talks from the conference.

 

The Golden Ticket: Docker and High Security Microservices by Aaron Grattafiori


Check out the slides + video of @dyn___’s #DockerCon talk on #Docker security + #microservices
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Cloning Running Servers with Docker and CRIU by Ross Boucher, Playground Theory


Learn about cloning running servers with #Docker and #CRIU by watching @boucher’s #DockerCon talk
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Docker for Mac and Windows: The Insider’s Guide by Justin Cormack, Docker


Watch @justincormack’s #DockerCon talk for the inside scoop on #Docker for Mac and Windows
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Containerd: Building a Container Supervisor by Michael Crosby, Docker


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Support from the Source: Getting Official Docker Support

Docker is the open platform to build, ship and run any application, anywhere. Whether legacy or microservices, Linux or Windows, Docker provides an OS, infrastructure and application architecture agnostic platform for developers and IT organizations to accelerate their application pipeline. Organizations often look for additional tooling and support as they look to bring Dockerized applications into production with SLAs that mirror their own service level commitments to their customers. Docker is available as free open source software or combined with commercial support with enterprise class service levels.

 

Open Source Support

The Docker team and community collaborate together to release updates to the Docker Engine and other related projects every couple of months. Open source support for the Docker Engine is provided through IRC, GitHub, and Docker Forums for the latest released version of Docker software. Any bugs and issues are filed, in the open, to the Docker repo for contributors and maintainers to ask for more information and discuss resolutions. Fixes and patches are then applied and released as incremental versions to the upstream Docker software.

 

Docker Commercial Support

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Car hacking: Thieves armed with laptops are stealing cars

Thieves armed with laptops are hacking into electronic ignitions of late-model cars to steal the vehicles. Police and insurers sounded the warning to raise awareness about the latest car-theft trend.The Houston Police Department pointed at surveillance footage that shows two suspects, one of whom used a laptop, before stealing a 2010 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. The first suspect opened the Jeep’s hood to reportedly cut the alarm. The footage below took place about 10 minutes later when a second suspect jimmied the door open, climbed inside and then did something with a laptop before stealing the Jeep. “If you are going to hot-wire a car, you don’t bring along a laptop,” Houston Police Department Officer James Woods told the Wall Street Journal. “We don’t know what he is exactly doing with the laptop, but my guess is he is tapping into the car’s computer and marrying it with a key he may already have with him so he can start the car.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Car hacking: Thieves armed with laptops are stealing cars

Thieves armed with laptops are hacking into electronic ignitions of late-model cars to steal the vehicles. Police and insurers sounded the warning to raise awareness about the latest car-theft trend.The Houston Police Department pointed at surveillance footage that shows two suspects, one of whom used a laptop, before stealing a 2010 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. The first suspect opened the Jeep’s hood to reportedly cut the alarm. The footage below took place about 10 minutes later when a second suspect jimmied the door open, climbed inside and then did something with a laptop before stealing the Jeep. “If you are going to hot-wire a car, you don’t bring along a laptop,” Houston Police Department Officer James Woods told the Wall Street Journal. “We don’t know what he is exactly doing with the laptop, but my guess is he is tapping into the car’s computer and marrying it with a key he may already have with him so he can start the car.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New Mac backdoor program steals keychain contents

Researchers have identified a new Mac backdoor program that's designed to steal credentials stored in the OS-encrypted keychain and give attackers control over the system. Dubbed OSX/Keydnap by researchers from antivirus vendor ESET, this is the second backdoor program targeting Macs found by antivirus firms in the past few days. It's not clear how Keydnap is distributed, but it arrives on computers in the form of a zip archive. Inside there's an executable file with an apparently benign extension such as .txt or .jpg that actually has a space character at the end. The file also has an icon indicating an image or text file.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New Mac backdoor program steals keychain contents

Researchers have identified a new Mac backdoor program that's designed to steal credentials stored in the OS-encrypted keychain and give attackers control over the system. Dubbed OSX/Keydnap by researchers from antivirus vendor ESET, this is the second backdoor program targeting Macs found by antivirus firms in the past few days. It's not clear how Keydnap is distributed, but it arrives on computers in the form of a zip archive. Inside there's an executable file with an apparently benign extension such as .txt or .jpg that actually has a space character at the end. The file also has an icon indicating an image or text file.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft COO Kevin Turner leaves to head a financial trading company

Microsoft COO Kevin Turner is leaving after 11 years in the role. He won't be replaced.Employees learned of the move Thursday in an email message from CEO Satya Nadella, in which he outlined his plans for reorganizing the company's senior leadership team.Nadella highlighted the importance of having "one feedback loop" across the company to reinforce customer value and satisfaction. To achieve this, he said, he will more deeply integrate the sales, marketing and services group with the rest of the company, under a single senior leadership team.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: We touch our phones 2,617 times a day, says study

We’re obsessed with our phones, a new study has found. The heaviest smartphone users click, tap or swipe on their phone 5,427 times a day, according to researcher Dscout.That’s the top 10 percent of phone users, so one would expect it to be excessive. However, the rest of us still touch the addictive things 2,617 times a day on average. No small number.+ Also on Network World: Time for digital detox? Searching for Wi-Fi becomes normal vacation behavior +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

The Complexity Conundrum

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Complexity is the enemy of understanding. Think about how much time you spend in your day trying to simplify things. Complexity is the reason why things like Reddit’s Explain Like I’m Five exist. We strive in our daily lives to find ways to simplify the way things are done. Well, except in networking.

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Networking hasn’t always been a super complex thing. Back when bridges tied together two sections of Ethernet, networking was fairly simple. We’ve spent years trying to make the network do bigger and better things faster with less input. Routing protocols have become more complicated. Network topologies grow and become harder to understand. Protocols do magical things with very little documentation beyond “Pure Freaking Magic”.

Part of this comes from applications. I’ve made my feelings on application development clear. Ivan Pepelnjak had some great comments on this post as well from Steve Chalmers and Derick Winkworth (@CloudToad). I especially like this one:

Derick is right. The application Continue reading

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