Tag: CPUs
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Cloud Blog: Harvesting hardware: Our approach to carbon-aware fleet deployment
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/hardware-harvesting-at-google-reducing-waste-and-emissions/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Harvesting hardware: Our approach to carbon-aware fleet deployment Feedly Summary: When it comes to managing the infrastructure and AI that powers Google’s products and platforms – from Search to YouTube to Google Cloud – every decision we make has an impact. Traditionally, meeting growing demands for machine capacity…
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The Register: SoftBank buys server-grade Arm silicon designer Ampere Computing
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/20/softbank_acquires_ampere/ Source: The Register Title: SoftBank buys server-grade Arm silicon designer Ampere Computing Feedly Summary: Japanese tech investor expects its own hyperscalers and e-com giants to collaborate, which could take a bite out of x86 market Japanese tech investment house SoftBank Group has announced its intention to acquire Ampere Computing, the chip design…
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Cloud Blog: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL: Two years of innovation and industry leadership
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/reflecting-on-two-years-of-alloydb/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL: Two years of innovation and industry leadership Feedly Summary: Two years ago, on a mission to redefine enterprise-grade databases we released AlloyDB for PostgreSQL in production. We saw the immense popularity and flexibility of PostgreSQL — a database developers love for being open-source — and…
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The Register: Nvidia’s Vera Rubin CPU, GPU roadmap charts course for hot-hot-hot 600 kW racks
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/nvidia_charts_course_for_600kw/ Source: The Register Title: Nvidia’s Vera Rubin CPU, GPU roadmap charts course for hot-hot-hot 600 kW racks Feedly Summary: Now that’s what we call dense floating-point compute GTC Nvidia’s rack-scale compute architecture is about to get really hot.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a comprehensive overview of Nvidia’s…
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Hacker News: Constant-Time Code: The Pessimist Case [pdf]
Source URL: https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/435.pdf Source: Hacker News Title: Constant-Time Code: The Pessimist Case [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the challenges and pessimistic outlook surrounding the implementation of constant-time coding in cryptographic software, especially in the light of modern compiler optimization techniques and the increasing complexity of CPU architectures.…
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The Register: Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone’s game
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/training_inference_shift/ Source: The Register Title: Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone’s game Feedly Summary: When it’s all abstracted by an API endpoint, do you even care what’s behind the curtain? Comment With the exception of custom cloud silicon, like Google’s TPUs or Amazon’s Trainium ASICs, the vast majority…
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The Register: Xen Project delivers solid hypervisor update and keeps working on RISC-V port
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/06/xen_seapath_open_source_hypervisors/ Source: The Register Title: Xen Project delivers solid hypervisor update and keeps working on RISC-V port Feedly Summary: While we’re talking open source V12N, meet SEAPATH: A new hypervisor for electricity grids backed by Red Hat The Xen Project has delivered an update to its flagship hypervisor.… AI Summary and Description: Yes…
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Cloud Blog: Best practices for achieving high availability and scalability in Cloud SQL
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/understanding-cloud-sql-high-availability/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Best practices for achieving high availability and scalability in Cloud SQL Feedly Summary: Cloud SQL, Google Cloud’s fully managed database service for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server workloads, offers strong availability SLAs, depending on which edition you choose: a 99.95% SLA, excluding maintenance for Enterprise edition; and a…