Inside Japan’s Future Exascale ARM Supercomputer
The rumors that supercomputer maker Fujitsu would be dropping the Sparc architecture and moving to ARM cores for its next generation of supercomputers have been going around since last fall, and at the International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany this week, officials at the server maker and RIKEN, the research and development arm of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) that currently houses the mighty K supercomputer, confirmed that this is indeed true.
The ARM architecture now gets a heavy-hitter system maker with expertise in developing processors to support diverse commercial and technical workloads, and …
Inside Japan’s Future Exascale ARM Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
DockerCon Thoughts – Secure, Sufficient Applications
I got to spend a couple of days this week at DockerCon and learn a bit more about software containers. I’d always assumed that containers were a slightly different form of virtualization, but thankfully I’ve learned my lesson there. What I did find out about containers gives me a bit of hope about the future of applications and security.
Minimum Viable App
One of the things that made me excited about Docker is that the process isolation idea behind building a container to do one thing has fascinating ramifications for application developers. In the past, we’ve spent out time building servers to do things. We build hardware, boot it with an operating system, and then we install the applications or the components thereof. When we started to virtualize hardware into VMs, the natural progression was to take the hardware resource and turn it into a VM. Thanks to tools that would migrate a physical resource to a virtual one in a single step, most of the first generation VMs were just physical copies of servers. Right down to phantom drivers in the Windows Device Manager.
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HPC is Great for AI, But What Does Supercomputing Stand to Gain?
As we have written about extensively here at The Next Platform, there is no shortage of use cases in deep learning and machine learning where HPC hardware and software approaches have bled over to power next generation applications in image, speech, video, and other classification and learning tasks.
Since we focus on high performance computing systems here in their many forms, that trend has been exciting to follow, particularly watching GPU computing and matrix math-based workloads find a home outside of the traditional scientific supercomputing center.
This widened attention has been good for HPC as well since it has …
HPC is Great for AI, But What Does Supercomputing Stand to Gain? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Location of images on Junos Space after upload
Just a note for my own reference really –
The images you upload via the GUI to upgrade Space end up on the filesystem in /var/cache/jboss/jmp/<imageversion> directory. In that directory is the actual image, plus a file called appVersionListFile.txt – this file seems to tell the system what other Space apps it is compatible with.
It seems to upload the image into this directory, and then extracts all the various .rpm files from it into /var/cache/jboss/jmp/payloads/<imageversion> directory.
I confirmed this by performing an ‘rm -rf <imageversion>’ on both the above directories, then uploading another image via the GUI again. Both directories re-appeared. I doubt this is recommended by TAC though, so do this at your own peril.
Register Now for the Docker 1.12 Hackathon
With the recent announcement of Docker 1.12, we are happy to announce that today marks the first day of the Docker 1.12 Hackathon! Now that the hackathon is open for registration, participants are encouraged to hack using the new features included in Docker 1.12 including: Swarm Mode, the Service Deployment API, and the built-in routing mesh.
For the Docker 1.12 Hackathon, we are using a platform called DevPost, which allows participants to review the rules, submit their hacks, view other hacks, participate in and start discussions, and easily find other participants with similar interests or complementary skills to join forces with! Submissions are due on Monday, July 25th followed by a week-long judging period.
The judging panel for the Docker 1.12 Hackathon include three Docker Captains and two Docker employees:
- Phil Estes – Docker Captain and Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Cloud Open Technologies
- Arun Gupta – Docker Captain and VP of Developer Relations at Couchbase
- Laura Frank – Docker Captain and Senior Engineer at Codeship
- Mano Marks – Director of Developer Relations at Docker
- Mike Coleman – Technical Evangelist at docker
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IDG Contributor Network: Ad blocking rapidly escalating, says researcher
Large parts of the internet may need to quickly adopt alternative revenue methods to thwart a massive surge in ad blocking.
Ad blocking is not going away, says eMarketer, a research firm that has just published startling projections. In fact, the digital marketing expert says more than a quarter of U.S. internet users will use ad blockers to perform ad-free web browsing in 2016.
A double digit (34 percent) increase will lead to 69 million ad blocker users this year, eMarketer predicts.
And it’s going to get worse. The researcher says that number will be closer to 86 million ad blocking internet users in 2017. That’s growth of another 24 percent and will mean that almost a third (32 percent) of all internet users will use the barriers next year.
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