Tag: transition
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The Register: Just how deep is Nvidia’s CUDA moat really?
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/nvidia_cuda_moat/ Source: The Register Title: Just how deep is Nvidia’s CUDA moat really? Feedly Summary: Not as impenetrable as you might think, but still more than Intel or AMD would like Analysis Nvidia is facing its stiffest competition in years with new accelerators from Intel and AMD that challenge its best chips on…
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The Register: AWS now renting monster HPE servers, even in clusters of 7,680-vCPUs and 128TB
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/aws_hpe_server_instances/ Source: The Register Title: AWS now renting monster HPE servers, even in clusters of 7,680-vCPUs and 128TB Feedly Summary: Heir to Superdome goes cloudy for those who run large in-memory databases and apps that need them Amazon Web Services usually stays schtum about the exact disposition of the servers it rents in…
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The Register: Australia moves to drop some cryptography by 2030 – before quantum carves it up
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/australia_dropping_crypto_keys/ Source: The Register Title: Australia moves to drop some cryptography by 2030 – before quantum carves it up Feedly Summary: The likes of SHA-256, RSA, ECDSA and ECDH won’t be welcome in just five years Australia’s chief cyber security agency has decided local orgs should stop using the tech that forms the…
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The Register: Trump administration wants to go on cyber offensive against China
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/16/trump_administration_china_offensive/ Source: The Register Title: Trump administration wants to go on cyber offensive against China Feedly Summary: The US has never attacked Chinese critical infrastructure before, right? President-elect Donald Trump’s team wants to go on the offensive against America’s cyber adversaries, though it isn’t clear how the incoming administration plans to achieve this. ……
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Cloud Blog: Achieve peak SAP S/4HANA performance with Compute Engine X4 machines
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/sap-google-cloud/compute-engine-x4-machine-types-for-sap-workloads/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Achieve peak SAP S/4HANA performance with Compute Engine X4 machines Feedly Summary: Enterprise workloads like SAP S/4HANA present unique challenges when migrating to a public cloud, making the choice of a cloud provider critically important. As an in-memory database for large SAP deployments, SAP HANA can have massive…
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Schneier on Security: Short-Lived Certificates Coming to Let’s Encrypt
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/12/short-lived-certificates-coming-to-lets-encrypt.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Short-Lived Certificates Coming to Let’s Encrypt Feedly Summary: Starting next year: Our longstanding offering won’t fundamentally change next year, but we are going to introduce a new offering that’s a big shift from anything we’ve done before—short-lived certificates. Specifically, certificates with a lifetime of six days. This…
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Hacker News: Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA)
Source URL: https://andrewkchan.dev/posts/yalm.html Source: Hacker News Title: Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text provides a comprehensive overview of implementing a low-level LLM (Large Language Model) inference engine using C++ and CUDA. It details various optimization techniques to enhance inference performance on both CPU…