With all of the hyperscalers and major cloud builders designing their own CPUs and AI accelerators, the heat is on those who sell compute engines to these companies. …
Ampere Arm Server CPUs To Get 512 Cores, AI Accelerator was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Vincent Bernat documented a quirk I hope you’ll never see outside of a CCIE lab: combining BGP confederations with AS-override can generate endless AS paths.
I agree entirely with his conclusions (avoid both features). However, I still think that replacing an AS within the confederation part of an AS path (which should belong to a single well-managed AS) is not exactly the most brilliant idea I’ve seen.
As expected, AMD has once again raised its forecast for sales of its Instinct MI300 series GPUs, and as it has broken through $1 billion in revenues for its “Antares” line of compute engines in the second quarter, it is now expecting to surpass $4.5 billion in sales of these devices for all of 2024. …
AMD Breaks $1 Billion In Datacenter GPU Sales In Q2 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, themed “Games Wide Open” (“Ouvrons grand les Jeux”), kicked off on Friday, July 26, 2024, and will run until August 11. A total of 10,714 athletes from 204 nations, including individual and refugee teams, will compete in 329 events across 32 sports. This blog post focuses on the opening ceremony and the initial days of the event, examining associated impact on Internet traffic, especially in France, the popularity of Olympic websites by country, and the rise in Olympics-related spam and malicious emails.
Cloudflare has a global presence with data centers in over 320 cities, supporting millions of customers, which provides a global view of what’s happening on the Internet. This is helpful for improving security, privacy, efficiency, and speed, but also for observing Internet disruptions and traffic trends.
We are closely monitoring the event through our 2024 Olympics report on Cloudflare Radar and will provide updates on significant Internet trends as they develop.
For the first time in modern Olympic history, the opening ceremony was held outside a stadium, lasting nearly four hours and clearly impacting Internet traffic in France. The nation’s engagement was evident during Continue reading
The Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, themed “Games Wide Open” (“Ouvrons grand les Jeux”), kicked off on Friday, July 26, 2024, and will run until August 11. A total of 10,714 athletes from 204 nations, including individual and refugee teams, will compete in 329 events across 32 sports. This blog post focuses on the opening ceremony and the initial days of the event, examining associated impact on Internet traffic, especially in France, the popularity of Olympic websites by country, and the rise in Olympics-related spam and malicious emails.
Cloudflare has a global presence with data centers in over 320 cities, supporting millions of customers, which provides a global view of what’s happening on the Internet. This is helpful for improving security, privacy, efficiency, and speed, but also for observing Internet disruptions and traffic trends.
We are closely monitoring the event through our 2024 Olympics report on Cloudflare Radar and will provide updates on significant Internet trends as they develop.
For the first time in modern Olympic history, the opening ceremony was held outside a stadium, lasting nearly four hours and clearly impacting Internet traffic in France. The nation’s engagement was evident during the Continue reading
The companies under the control of Elon Musk – SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and X (formerly known as Twitter) – all need a hell of a lot of GPUs, and all for their own specific AI or HPC projects. …
So Who Is Building That 100,000 GPU Cluster For xAI? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Commissioned: The importance of data has never been more salient in this golden age of AI services. …
Your AI Strategy Called: It Wants You To Free The Data was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For Mark Zuckerberg, the decision by Meta Platforms – and way back when it was still known as Facebook – to open much of its technology – including server and storage designs, datacenter designs, and most recently its Llama AI large language models – came about because the company often found itself trailing competitors when it came to deploying advanced technologies. …
For Meta Platforms, An Open AI Policy Is The Best Policy was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
I never mastered the fine art of polite diplomatic sarcasm. Brad Casemore is a virtuoso – you’ll love his take on Google’s Quarterly Results: Investors Begin Questioning Efficacy of GenAI Investments.
Training AI models is expensive, and the world can tolerate that to a certain extent so long as the cost inference for these increasingly complex transformer models can be driven down. …
Stacking Up AMD Versus Nvidia For Llama 3.1 GPU Inference was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In today’s world, technology is quickly evolving and some practices that were once considered the gold standard are quickly becoming outdated. At Cloudflare, we stay close to industry changes to ensure that we can provide the best solutions to our customers. One practice that we’re continuing to see in use that no longer serves its original purpose is certificate pinning. In this post, we’ll dive into certificate pinning, the consequences of using it in today’s Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) world, and alternatives to pinning that offer the same level of security without the management overhead.
PKI exists to help issue and manage TLS certificates, which are vital to keeping the Internet secure – they ensure that users access the correct applications or servers and that data between two parties stays encrypted. The mis-issuance of a certificate can pose great risk. For example, if a malicious party is able to issue a TLS certificate for your bank’s website, then they can potentially impersonate your bank and intercept that traffic to get access to your bank account. To prevent a mis-issued certificate from intercepting traffic, the server can give a certificate to the client and say “only trust connections if Continue reading
In today’s world, technology is quickly evolving and some practices that were once considered the gold standard are quickly becoming outdated. At Cloudflare, we stay close to industry changes to ensure that we can provide the best solutions to our customers. One practice that we’re continuing to see in use that no longer serves its original purpose is certificate pinning. In this post, we’ll dive into certificate pinning, the consequences of using it in today’s Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) world, and alternatives to pinning that offer the same level of security without the management overhead.
PKI exists to help issue and manage TLS certificates, which are vital to keeping the Internet secure – they ensure that users access the correct applications or servers and that data between two parties stays encrypted. The mis-issuance of a certificate can pose great risk. For example, if a malicious party is able to issue a TLS certificate for your bank’s website, then they can potentially impersonate your bank and intercept that traffic to get access to your bank account. To prevent a mis-issued certificate from intercepting traffic, the server can give a certificate to the client and say “only trust connections if Continue reading
Back in March of this year, I talked about how I started using markdownlint-cli to perform linting against the Markdown source files that are used by Hugo to generate this site. At the same time, I also started exploring the use of similar tools to check (or lint, if you will) my writing itself. In this post, I’ll share with you how I started using Vale to perform some checks against my writing.
More details on my use of markdownlint-cli are available here for reference. markdownlint-cli checks for the structure and formatting of Markdown files, but it doesn’t do any “higher level” checks regarding the writing itself. For that, I needed to add a second tool, and I opted to use Vale, an open source tool specifically aimed at “linting your prose.” Among other things, what I liked about Vale was that it offers integration with graphical editors like Visual Studio Code (what I use when I’m on macOS) and Sublime Text (what I use when I’m on Linux), but it also can be run directly from the command-line. And, if you are so inclined, there’s a GitHub Action for Vale, too. Nice!
The first step is Continue reading
Combining BGP confederations and AS override can potentially create a BGP routing loop, resulting in an indefinitely expanding AS path.
BGP confederation is a technique used to reduce the number of iBGP sessions and improve scalability in large autonomous systems (AS). It divides an AS into sub-ASes. Most eBGP rules apply between sub-ASes, except that next-hop, MED, and local preferences remain unchanged. The AS path length ignores contributions from confederation sub-ASes. BGP confederation is rarely used and BGP route reflection is typically preferred for scaling.
AS override is a feature that allows a router to replace the ASN of a
neighbor in the AS path of outgoing BGP routes with its own. It’s useful when
two distinct autonomous systems share the same ASN. However, it interferes with
BGP’s loop prevention mechanism and should be used cautiously. A safer
alternative is the allowas-in directive.1
In the example below, we have four routers in a single confederation, each in
its own sub-AS. R0 originates the 2001:db8::1/128 prefix. R1, R2, and
R3 forward this prefix to the next router in the loop.
The router configurations are available in a Continue reading