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DDoS: Understand The Growing Threat From Botnet #14

CTOvision

If IoT devices supporting IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN) are introduced, the potential for larger DDoS attacks compounds. After their primary use expires, if they don’t have a hardware shut down function built in, they could be sitting in a land fill and still used for malicious activities for decades.

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What matters about Matter, the new smart home standard

The Verge

says Chris LaPré, chief technology officer of the CSA. Bluetooth devices that don’t rely on bridges, such as Eve’s line of security and sensor products, will need hardware upgrades, meaning older devices won’t be compatible. Work has already begun on Matter 1.1, Matter 2.0, and beyond. Image: Ring.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Additionally, many high-end HPC applications take advantage of knowing their in-house hardware platforms to achieve major speedup by exploiting the specific processor architecture. There is no more need for hardware tinkering to keep the clusters up and running (I spent many nights doing this; there is no glory in it). until today.

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Technology Short Take #53

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. This article by Michael Gugino provides some details on getting GRE tunnels over IPv6 with Open vSwitch running on CentOS 7. Mark Russinovich, CTO for Microsoft Azure, has a long but informative article on the union of Docker containers, Windows Server, and Hyper-V. Thanks Mike!

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

The early GPU systems were very vendor specific and mostly consisted of graphic operators implemented in hardware being able to operate on data streams in parallel. Programming the GPU evolved in a similar fashion; it started with the early APIs being mainly pass-through to the operations programmed in hardware. CTO - Amazon.com.