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Heterogeneous Hardware Needs Universal Software

DevOps.com

As hardware advances and diversifies, we’re entering what many see as a new golden age of computer architecture. The post Heterogeneous Hardware Needs Universal Software appeared first on DevOps.com. So many […]. So many […].

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The AI continuum

CIO

Deep learning AI: A rising workhorse Deep learning AI uses the same neural network architecture as generative AI, but can’t understand context, write poems or create drawings. Training a GPT4-scale, trillion-parameter model takes billions of dollars in supercomputing hardware, months of time, and valuable data science talent.

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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

TechCrunch

In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. ” A DPU is a dedicated piece of hardware designed to handle certain data processing tasks, including security and network routing for data traffic. .

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Dragonfly, a startup developing a ‘drop-in’ replacement for Redis, raises $21M

TechCrunch

Oded Poncz and Roman Gershman experienced the pain of managing and scaling Redis, the open source database, in their previous engineering roles. But for what it’s worth, the open source Dragonfly, which reached version 1.0 this week, already has some uptake — and investment.

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Building Docker images for multiple operating system architectures

CircleCI

There are often circumstances where software is compiled and packaged into artifacts that must function on multiple operating systems (OS) and processor architectures. It is almost impossible to execute an application on a different OS/architecture platform than the one it was designed for. Getting started.

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Introducing SVT-AV1: a scalable open-source AV1 framework

Netflix Tech

It’s a nice building with good architecture! Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies. There exists at least one other alternative open-source AV1 encoder, rav1e. What is SVT-AV1?

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Bringing AI to your organization? Better bring the right database

CIO

And they all rely on the open-source NoSQL database Apache Cassandra ®. You’ve created the right architecture to collect and store your data and the best way to keep costs low is to leverage what you have. Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL database that scales with performance and reliability better than any other.