SPF13
MARCH 20, 2015
In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? While open source projects come in all shapes and sizes and all forms of governance, no matter what kind of project you’re a part of, there are a set of fundamentals that lead to success. What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. Open Source is taking over the world.
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS009, titled “Ceph: Open Source Storage Software Optimizations on Intel Architecture for Cloud Workloads.” The speaker is Anjaneya “Reddy” Chagam, a Principal Engineer in the Intel Data Center Group. This brings Chagam to discussing Ceph, which he describes as the “only” (quotes his) open source virtual block storage option. So where is Intel focusing its efforts around Ceph?
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Galido
OCTOBER 6, 2016
Having an open-source IVI operating system would create a reusable platform consisting of core services, middleware and open application layer interfaces that eliminate the redundant efforts to create separate proprietary systems. By developing an open-source platform, carmakers can share upgrades as they arrive. BMW has announced plans for IVI based on the open-source platform, and Ford has developed SmartDeviceLink.
CTOvision
OCTOBER 7, 2014
CTOlabs.com , the research arm of CTOvision.com , has just released a White Paper for the federal technology community titled: Enhancing Functionality and Security of Enterprise Data Holdings: Examining new, mission-enabling design patterns made possible by the Cloudera-Intel partnership. The paper captures design considerations for enterprise technologists that flow from the engineering work both Cloudera and Intel have been putting into both open source technologies and hardware design.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 18, 2015
The data security pillar includes data encryption, conforming to key management policies, and integration with existing Hardware Security Module as part of key management infrastructure. Their security story is one that began long ago, but was accelerated by Intel in 2013, when Intel established Project Rhino. With Garcia’s final remarks, he debuted Intel’s hardware acceleration figures. By Katie Kennedy.
CTOvision
AUGUST 14, 2014
Thanks Intel and Cloudera for the technology and thanks to the Michael J. Fox Foundation and Intel Join Forces to Improve Parkinson’s Disease Monitoring and Treatment through Advanced Technologies. The Intel-built big data analytics platform combines hardware and software technologies to provide researchers with a way to more accurately measure progression of disease symptoms. Shared Commitment to Open-Access Data. By Bob Gourley.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
CTOlabs.com , the research arm of CTOvision.com , produced a White Paper for the federal technology community titled: Enhancing Functionality and Security of Enterprise Data Holdings: Examining new, mission-enabling design patterns made possible by the Cloudera-Intel partnership. The paper captures design considerations for enterprise technologists that flow from the engineering work both Cloudera and Intel have been putting into both open source technologies and hardware design.
TechSpot
DECEMBER 30, 2021
Back in June, AMD launched its competitor to Nvidia’s DLSS tech in the form of FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), an open source technology that works on both AMD and Nvidia hardware as well as Intel’s upcoming Alchemist GPUs
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
This is a liveblog of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 session EDCS003, titled “Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud.” ” The presenters are Girish Gopal and Malini Bhandaru, both with Intel. Gopal starts off by showing the agenda, which will provide an overview of Intel and OpenStack, and then dive into some specific integrations in the various OpenStack projects. Where is Intel IT Open Cloud headed?
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
This is session COMS003, titled “Enabling Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Server Reference Architecture Design.” The speakers are Frank Schapfel, Senior Product Line Manager with Intel, and Brian Skerry, Open Networks System Architect with Intel. This session is slightly related to IDF 2013 session COMS0002 , which focused more on the Intel ONP Switch reference design.
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
This is a liveblog of the Data Center Mega-Session from day 2 of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 in San Francisco. Bryant then introduces Karl Triebes, EVP and CTO of F5 Networks, who takes the stage to talk about FPGAs in F5 and how the joint Xeon/FPGA integrated solution from Intel plays into that role. F5′s products use Intel CPUs, but they also leverage FPGAs to selectively enable certain functions in hardware for improved performance.
Scott Lowe
APRIL 3, 2016
Cumulus Networks has added another hardware partner to its list of supported hardware partners; this time it’s Mellanox, as outlined in this SDx Central article. Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston has a write-up on the recent Intel “Broadwell” announcement that provides details on the latest CPU family. Photon Controller is open source and available from GitHub , so feel free to give it a spin. Welcome to Technology Short Take #64.
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
Dmitri Kalintsev is back with another article in a series of articles on using hardware VXLAN tunnel endpoints (VTEPs) with VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. Intel has finally started shipping silicon photonics gear, according to this report from El Reg (news coming out of IDF16). I predicted a couple of years ago that Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions) was going to be HUGE (see here ). Welcome to Technology Short Take #71!
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
This is a liveblog for the day 1 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014. The keynote starts with an interesting musical piece that shows how technology can be used to allow a single performer to emulate the sound of a full band, and then kicks off with a “pocket avatar” presentation by Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel Corporation. Among the accomplishments Krzanich lists, he mentions that Intel was the #2 shipper of tablets last year.
The Verge
AUGUST 10, 2021
Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has unveiled a quadrupedal robot named CyberDog: an experimental, open-source machine that the firm says “holds unforetold possibilities.”. CyberDog also has three USB-C ports and one HDMI port, which Xiaomi says can be used to customize its hardware.
GeekWire
MARCH 17, 2021
The University of Washington spinout aims to help companies deploy machine learning models on various hardware configurations. Jason Knight , a former principal engineer and AI leader at Intel who earned a Ph.D. The OctoML team. OctoML Photo).
Scott Lowe
MARCH 23, 2017
Servers/Hardware. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. Here’s a post outlining some of VMware’s more prominent open source projects in the “cloud-native” space. Or, in plain English instead of vRA jargon, Gavin shows how to prepare a Photon OS instance that can be deployed by vRA and which registers automatically with Admiral (VMware’s open source GUI for deploying containers). Welcome to Technology Short Take #80!
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
I’m back home in Denver after spending a few days in San Francisco at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013, so I thought I’d take a few minutes to sit down and share a summary of the event and my thoughts. Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud: [link]. The Future of Software-Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design: [link]. General Hardware IDF2013 Networking
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 8, 2016
This is an interesting project to watch, I think—it’s porting OVN (Open Virtual Network) from a “traditional” OvS back-end to an IOVisor-based back-end (IOVisor implements the data plane in eBPF). Servers/Hardware. Intel has a tutorial series on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). I noted that a Vagrant provider for vRealize Automation was recently released as an open source project. Welcome to Technology Short Take #74!
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 6, 2021
Servers/Hardware. Travis Downs explores a recent Intel microcode update that may have negatively impacted performance. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. Welcome to Technology Short Take #143! I have what I think is an interesting list of links to share with you this time around.
Scott Lowe
MAY 4, 2017
Aaron Conole provides an overview of using the ovs-dpctl command to “program” the Open vSwitch (OVS) kernel module. Servers/Hardware. News in the OpenStack space hasn’t been so good recently (Intel pulling out of OSIC, various companies laying off folks, other “pure play” companies shifting focus away from OpenStack), but here’s one architect’s perspective on what you may still want to attend the OpenStack Summit. Welcome to Technology Short Take #82!
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
To help resolve this issue, Cumulus Networks (and possibly Metacloud, I’m not sure of their involvement yet) has release an open source project called vxfld. As described in this Metacloud blog post , vxfld is designed to “handle VXLAN traffic from any operationg system or hardware platform that adheres to the IETF Internet-Draft for VXLAN” Nir Yechiel recently posted part 1 of a discussion on the need for network overlays. Servers/Hardware.
Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 23, 2020
I think a fair number of folks may not be aware that the Nginx ingress controller for Kubernetes—both the community version and the Nginx-maintained open source version—do suffer from timeouts and errors resulting from changes in the back-end application’s list of endpoints (think pods being added or removed). Servers/Hardware. Intel has released a security advisory for BlueZ , which is related to Bluetooth support in the Linux kernel.
CTOvision
MAY 24, 2016
has announced the launch of the Cray® Urika®-GX system -- the first agile analytics platform that fuses supercomputing technologies with an open, enterprise-ready software framework for big data analytics. The Cray Urika-GX system features Intel® Xeon® Broadwell cores, 22 terabytes of memory, 35 terabytes of local SSD storage capacity, and the Aries supercomputing interconnect, which provides the unmatched network performance necessary to solve the most demanding big data problems.
GeekWire
OCTOBER 26, 2021
A quantum hardware engineer works on one of the dilution refrigerators used at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing. “We’re in the building,” Painter, the AWS center’s head of quantum hardware, told GeekWire.
Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 23, 2013
with the Floodlight open source controller. Servers/Hardware. Intel announced the E5 2600 v2 series of CPUs back at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 (you can follow my IDF 2013 coverage by looking at posts with the IDF2013 tag ). Although I’m just now catching Kevin’s posts, they were published almost immediately after the Intel announcements—thanks for the promptness, Kevin!). Welcome to Technology Short Take #36.
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 21, 2022
Servers/Hardware. These details on their 12th-generation H processors shows that Intel appears to be intent to regain the lead. The story of a developer deliberately polluting their open source projects—as outlined here for the “colors.js” The post focuses on Otomi, which in turn leverages Open Policy Agent and Gatekeeper. Welcome to Technology Short Take #151, the first Technology Short Take of 2022.
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 6, 2021
Servers/Hardware. Travis Downs explores a recent Intel microcode update that may have negatively impacted performance. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. Welcome to Technology Short Take #143! I have what I think is an interesting list of links to share with you this time around.
Scott Lowe
JUNE 25, 2021
of the open source Kuma service mesh, and along with it a corresponding version of kumactl , the command-line utility for interacting with Kuma. Note that this post really only applies to users of M1-based Macs; users of Intel-based Macs can extract the kumactl binary from the release archive available linked from the Kuma install docs. The same goes for users of Linux distributions running on Intel-based hardware.)
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
The 5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab) , a startup program funded by T-Mobile, Intel, and NASA, today revealed its second cohort of companies. The Bellevue, Wash.-based based lab debuted in early May and wrapped up its first 12-week program in July.
Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. Uh oh… more hardware exploits. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts. Chris Mellor shares an interview with Hazelcast on the performance of Intel Optane PMem. Welcome to Technology Short Take #134! I’m publishing a bit early this time due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the US.
Scott Lowe
MAY 3, 2019
Via the Kubernetes blog , Box announced it has open sourced a project called kube-iptables-tailer , which turns packet drops from iptables into Kubernetes events that can be logged for easier troubleshooting. Servers/Hardware. AnandTech has some coverage of the latest Intel processor announcements , which totally flew by my radar. This article on building DevOps pipelines with open source tools was exactly what a beginner (to CI/CD) needed.
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 10, 2015
Part 2 talks about source-driven configuration for NetOps (which discusses the use of Git and Gerrit to manage network device configurations), while Part 3 walks through a continuous integration pipeline for networking (which adds Jenkins to the mix described in part 2). Jason Edelman has posted a self-compiled list of networking projects that are open source ; this is a useful list, so thanks for compiling it Jason! Servers/Hardware.
Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 9, 2018
Servers/Hardware. The Intel Management Engine (ME) has received a bit of attention as a potential security vulnerability; in this article , authors Maxim Goryachy and Mark Ermolov expose some new concerns around the Intel ME and its undocumented Manufacturing Mode. Serve The Home takes a critical look at the Bloomberg Supermicro stories, debunking or at least calling into question many details of the alleged hardware hack as reported by Bloomberg.
The Verge
JANUARY 8, 2022
Two years ago, on the floor of CES 2020, there was a lot of buzz about a chip — not the latest AMD or Intel announcement, but a new alliance of major tech companies that called itself Project Connected Home over IP, or CHIP for short.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 25, 2013
The evolution of enterprise applications and rise of big data has eclipsed traditional database capabilities and provides an opening for a significant new market entrant,” said Andy Vitus, partner, Scale Venture Partners. Cloudera announced Sentry – a new Apache licensed open source project that delivers the industry’s first fine-grained authorization framework for Hadoop. ” RELATED POSTS: Big Data News: Intel, WalmartLabs, DataStax. About DCK.
Scott Lowe
MARCH 20, 2020
Servers/Hardware. Mark Ermolov discusses a vulnerability in the ROM (read-only memory) of the Intel Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME). Chin-Fah Heoh has a write-up from Storage Field Day 19 about a range of open source projects and initiatives related to storage. Welcome to Technology Short Take #125, where I have a collection of articles about various data center and cloud technologies collected from around the Internet.
Scott Lowe
APRIL 17, 2017
Shifting gears a bit, Golub talks a bit more about the changes over the last 3 years in regards to Docker (the open source project) itself. After briefly discussing a specific talk here at the conference (a talk by TGen), Golub thanks the contributors, maintainers, mentors, and community members who support Docker (the open source project). Other companies involved in LinuxKit include IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and the Linux Foundation.
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 6, 2012
First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. His earlier post on getting started with OpenFlow and Open vSwitch tutorial lab is also quite good. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware. Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #27!
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 26, 2013
Intel. The AMD FirePro professional graphics demonstrations featured unique animation, display, simulation and other creative hardware and software collaborations for attendees from around the world. “The powerful combination of AMD hardware and Autodesk software can help increase productivity and creativity to complete tasks faster and give artists more time to try new ideas.” About DCK. Advertise. Subscribe. Events.
The Verge
JULY 9, 2020
When the pandemic hit, the firm began adapting an open-source machine named TurtleBot to work as a mobile disinfectant unit using ultraviolet light. It uses machine vision powered by Intel’s Movidius AI chips to map and navigate its surrounding environment.
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 17, 2015
If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. It says the the JET (Juniper Extension Toolkit) uses “open application programming interfaces”, but fails to provide any specifics. Is this “open-washing”, or is there actually some meat to this? Servers/Hardware. See here for some of my thoughts on Intel’s RSA following IDF 2014.) Welcome to Technology Short Take #58.
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 10, 2015
Servers/Hardware. To those who say that “virtualization is dead, long live the container,” I can only point to the numerous mashups between “traditional” virtualization and OS container concepts such as those espoused by Docker: vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC), Hyper-V Containers, Intel’s Clear Containers, and now RancherVM (KVM VMs inside Docker containers). Ed Haletky shares some pain he experienced recently with a KVM host running Open vSwitch (OVS).
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