With performance comparable to the Nvidia V100 GPU, a common accelerator in HPC but better energy consumption numbers and memory bandwidth potential, Graphcore can turn heads in supercomputing.
Graphcore IPU Put Through the Supercomputing Paces was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
On today's sponsored Tech Bytes podcast we discuss VMware's vRealize True Visibility Suite (TVS), an add-on that helps you understand transactions from the physical layer all the way through to the application layer. Our guest is Apolak Borthakur, VP/GM at VMware.
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Today's Day Two Cloud episode is part one of a two-part show on abstractions. Hosts Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks riff on the idea that "Abstractions are there to save you typing, not to save you thinking." The upshot? Abstractions don't eliminate issues, they just move them someplace else. And that has repercussions for design, development, infrastructure, and operations.
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Its bad for your brain because it teaches you the wrong things.
As we enter a new year, it’s an appropriate time to reflect on our achievements at Tigera and how much Calico Enterprise has evolved over the past year as the industry’s leading Security and Observability solution for Kubernetes Networking and Microservices. Our experience working with enterprise-class early adopters has helped us to identify the most critical requirements for them to operationalize their Kubernetes deployments and successfully make the challenging transition from pilot to production. These learnings have helped us to shape today’s Calico Enterprise, which is visually represented in this solutions architecture diagram. Let’s dig into this feature-rich layer cake of functionality, from bottom to top!
But first, there are some important things to keep in mind as we explore. Calico Enterprise is a Kubernetes-native solution – Kube-native – in which everything we do is an extension of Kubernetes primitives. We leverage the full power of Kubernetes by integrating with the Kubernetes API server and creating our own aggregated API server. We use an operator model to access and control custom resources to perform specific functions, like RBAC for example, natively in Kubernetes. Being Kubernetes-native means that as Kubernetes evolves, Calico Enterprise Continue reading
Innovation and disruption are part the air we breath in the information technology world. But what is innovation, and how do we become innovators? When you see someone who has invented a lot of things, either shown in patents or standards or software, you might wonder how you can become an innovator, too. In this episode of the Hedge, Tom Ammon, Eyvonne Sharp, and Russ White talk to Daniel Beveridge about the structure of innovation—how to position yourself in a place where you can innovate, and how to launch innovation.
A shorter version of this article was first published in the Toronto Star.
With the recent launch of the Universal Broadband Fund, or UBF, the federal government has committed to addressing the connectivity gap that is far too real for many people living in Canada. Over the past eight months, COVID-19 has shown us how important the Internet is during a crisis. Broadband access has become an essential service as critical as access to water or electricity. Minister Maryam Monsef was correct when she said: “High-speed Internet is more than just a convenience.”
Certainly, an investment of CAD$1.75 billion to help lower the hurdles that have left many Indigenous, rural, and remote communities in Canada on the wrong side of the digital divide is both needed and welcome. But officials need to take care not to disenfranchise the very communities they intend to help in the process. For the most challenging communities to connect to the Internet, success can only happen with community-led initiatives. It is critical that the communities most in need are full partners in the process, driving connectivity solutions that work for them, and have access to the necessary resources to make that happen.
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It is never easy to blaze new trails in IT infrastructure due to specific, unique workload requirements. …
Optimization for Real-Time AI and Analytics Starts in the Datacenter was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
Serverless is all the rage these days, but what exactly is it? What does that term mean and what should the technology be used for? Is it the same as Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS)? Consultant Alex Ellis weighs in on these and other questions in today's Full Stack Journey podcast.
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Last week I wrote about the interesting challenges you might encounter when using data generated by a Junos device in an Ansible playbook. Unfortunately it’s not just Junos – every system built around XML-based data structures might experience the same issues, including Cisco Nexus OS.