ISC ’22: The AMD-Intel-Nvidia HPC race heats up

The International Supercomputer Conference (ISC) kicked off in Hamburg, Germany this week with the release of the TOPP500 list of the fastest supercomputers, with a computer named Frontier taking first place.Deployed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Labs, it is the first exascale machine (1018 floating point operations per second)—an HPE-Cray EX system powered by AMD Epyc CPUs and Instinct MI250 GPUs.Intel had hoped to win the exascale battle with another DoE computer called Aurora, but AMD beat it to the punch. Frontier also beat out competitors from China and Japan that had hoped to win the exascale race.To read this article in full, please click here

ISC ’22: The AMD-Intel-Nvidia HPC race heats up

The International Supercomputer Conference (ISC) kicked off in Hamburg, Germany this week with the release of the TOPP500 list of the fastest supercomputers, with a computer named Frontier taking first place.Deployed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Labs, it is the first exascale machine (1018 floating point operations per second)—an HPE-Cray EX system powered by AMD Epyc CPUs and Instinct MI250 GPUs.Intel had hoped to win the exascale battle with an other DoE computer called Aurora, but AMD beat it to the punch. Frontier also beat out competitors from China and Japan that had hoped to win the exascale race.To read this article in full, please click here

Released: Automation content navigator 2.0

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Automation content navigator releases with Ansible Automation Platform 2.2

 

What is it?

Automation content navigator was released alongside Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.0 and changed the way content creators build and test Ansible automation. Navigator 1.0 drew together multiple Ansible command line tools like ansible-playbook, ansible-doc, ansible-config, etc. and continues to accrue seriously useful new features to help deliver greater flexibility to automation creators.

Coinciding with the release of Ansible Automation Platform 2.2, navigator 2.0 introduces improvements to existing functionality alongside additional features to aid in the development of automation content.

Within navigator 2.0, you will find:

  • Automation execution environment image build support 
  • Ability to interact in real-time with automation execution environments 
  • Settings subcommand to view active configuration of local environment 
  • Generate a sample configuration file that can be used for new projects
  • Automatic mode selection (stdout vs. interactive) 
  • Technology preview lint support, UI improvements, Collections view support for Ansible built-ins, time zone support, color enhancements, and more!

Looking closer

Image builder support

Before the release of navigator 2.0, a separate command line application (ansible-builder)  was needed to build execution environment images from human readable YAML files. With this release, ansible-navigator Continue reading

Thinking Outside the Box for Network Acceleration

Thinking Outside the Box for Network Acceleration

There is a continued push to go even “faster.” Lowering port to port latency while maintaining features and increasing link speeds and system density is a significant technology challenge for designers and the laws of physics. Since the first release of Arista’s 7100 and 7150 switch families, the company has been a partner in building best-in-class low latency trading networks that are today deployed in global financial institutions and trading locations.

Cutting edge customers took the approach of disaggregating network functions into pools of functionality – extremely fast Layer 1 switching, operating as low as 5 ns and FPGA-driven trading pipelines running at under 40 ns with the Arista 7130 family. This approach allowed more sophisticated L2 / L3 networking functionality, such as the ability to tap any flow or enable routing protocols, to run on general-purpose systems, including the Arista 7050X, 7060X and 7170 full-featured platforms, using merchant silicon with billions of packets per second and low latency.

MLAG Deep Dive: System Overview

Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation (MLAG) – the ability to terminate a Port Channel/Link Aggregation Group on multiple switches – is one of the more convoluted1 bridging technologies2. After all, it’s not trivial to persuade two boxes to behave like one and handle the myriad corner cases correctly.

In this series of deep dive blog posts, we’ll explore the intricacies of MLAG, starting with the data plane considerations and the control plane requirements resulting from the data plane quirks. If you wonder why we need all that complexity, remember that Ethernet networks still try to emulate the ancient thick yellow cable that could lose some packets but could never reorder packets or deliver duplicate packets.

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MLAG Deep Dive: System Overview

Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation (MLAG) – the ability to terminate a Port Channel/Link Aggregation Group on multiple switches – is one of the more convoluted1 bridging technologies2. After all, it’s not trivial to persuade two boxes to behave like one and handle the myriad corner cases correctly.

In this series of deep dive blog posts, we’ll explore the intricacies of MLAG, starting with the data plane considerations and the control plane requirements resulting from the data plane quirks. If you wonder why we need all that complexity, remember that Ethernet networks still try to emulate the ancient thick yellow cable that could lose some packets but could never reorder packets or deliver duplicate packets.

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Juniper vMX on GNS3

Juniper Network has several products tha can be run on virtualization (hypervisor), such as KVM and ESXi. Those products include vMX (router), vSRX (firewall / security), vQFX (switch), and so on. The virtual Juniper products ease us to deploy it on lab or simulator, even on the production environment, which is run on the hypervisor. […]
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6G cellular doesn’t exist, but it can be hacked

Arriving at a consensus on when 6G wireless will be widely available commercially is all but impossible, as this small sample size shows: Northeastern University researchers: More than five years, but probably not long after Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark: Definitely by 2030 ABI Research: Sometime in the 2030s A magic 8-ball I found in my basement: Reply hazy, try again [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ] Then there is this intriguing quatrain by 16th century French physician, astrologer and renowned seer Nostradamus:To read this article in full, please click here

6G cellular doesn’t exist, but it can be hacked

Arriving at a consensus on when 6G wireless will be widely available commercially is all but impossible, as this small sample size shows: Northeastern University researchers: More than five years, but probably not long after Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark: Definitely by 2030 ABI Research: Sometime in the 2030s A magic 8-ball I found in my basement: Reply hazy, try again [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ] Then there is this intriguing quatrain by 16th century French physician, astrologer and renowned seer Nostradamus:To read this article in full, please click here

World’s first exascale supercomputer is the world’s fastest

The first true exascale supercomputer, Frontier, is now the fastest in the world, toppling Fugaku, which held the title for the past two years, according to the latest TOPP500 list of the best performing supercomputers.An exascale computer is one that can perform 1018 (one quintillion) floating point operations per second (1 exaFLOPS), and Frontier, installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, weighed in at 1.12 exaFLOPS. [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ] Frontier also captured the title of most energy efficient supercomputer, generating 62.68 GFLOP per watt.To read this article in full, please click here

World’s first exascale supercomputer is the world’s fastest

The first true exascale supercomputer, Frontier, is now the fastest in the world, toppling Fugaku, which held the title for the past two years, according to the latest TOPP500 list of the best performing supercomputers.An exascale computer is one that can perform 1018 (one quintillion) floating point operations per second (1 exaFLOPS), and Frontier, installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, weighed in at 1.12 exaFLOPS. [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ] Frontier also captured the title of most energy efficient supercomputer, generating 62.68 GFLOP per watt.To read this article in full, please click here

World’s first exascale supercompuer is the world’s fastest

The first true exascale supercomputer, Frontier, is now the fastest in the world, toppling Fugaku, which held the title for the past two years, according to the latest TOPP500 list of the best performing supercomputers.An exascale computer is one that can perform 1018 (one quintillion) floating point operations per second (1 exaFLOPS), and Frontier, installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, weighed in at 1.12 exaFLOPS.Frontier also captured the title of most energy efficient supercomputer, generating 62.68 GFLOP per watt.Frontier’s speed bumps down Fugaku at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in Kobe, Japan, from number 1 on the TOPP500 list last fall to number 2 now. Fugaku scored 442 peta FLOPS (PFLOPS) on the  High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark, which measures how well systems solve a dense system of linear equations.To read this article in full, please click here

World’s first exascale supercompuer is the world’s fastest

The first true exascale supercomputer, Frontier, is now the fastest in the world, toppling Fugaku, which held the title for the past two years, according to the latest TOPP500 list of the best performing supercomputers.An exascale computer is one that can perform 1018 (one quintillion) floating point operations per second (1 exaFLOPS), and Frontier, installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, weighed in at 1.12 exaFLOPS.Frontier also captured the title of most energy efficient supercomputer, generating 62.68 GFLOP per watt.Frontier’s speed bumps down Fugaku at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in Kobe, Japan, from number 1 on the TOPP500 list last fall to number 2 now. Fugaku scored 442 peta FLOPS (PFLOPS) on the  High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark, which measures how well systems solve a dense system of linear equations.To read this article in full, please click here

Easier Network Visibility Using SaaS

The following post is by Sehjung Hah at VMware. We thank VMware for being a sponsor. Catch up and listen to VMware’s latest podcast with Packet Pushers introducing vRealize Network Insight Universal with Ethan Banks and Ned Bellavance on Day 2 Cloud 145: Tech Bytes: Flexible Cloud Migration Using VMware vRealize Network Insight Universal. More details are available in […]

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Use bash to change an IP address from dynamic to static on Linux

Changing the IP address of a Linux system from dynamic to static is not difficult, but requires a little care and a set of commands that you likely rarely use. This post provides a bash script that will run through the process, collect the needed information and then issue the commands required to make the changes while asking as little as possible from the person running it.The bulk of the script focusses on making sure that the correct settings are used. For example, it collects the 36-charater universally unique identifier (UUID) from the system so that you never have to type it in or copy and paste it into place. [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ]To read this article in full, please click here

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