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Kernel: Hammerspace, Slop, and Fake Code Synthesised With Bugs for Hype's Sake
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Situation Publishing ☛ Hammerspace bangs IO500 performance bell with its standard software
Hammerspace says IO500 results show its standard Linux plus NFS system software achieves HPC-class performance with proprietary parallel file system complexity.
The IO500 benchmark ranks the performance of storage systems supplying data to supercomputers and other HPC (high-performance computing) systems, with its 10-Node Production result limiting them to serving just 10 clients. Hammerspace says that, for the first time, a fully standards-based architecture — standard Linux, the upstream NFSv4.2 client, and commodity NVMe flash — has delivered a 10-node Production fully reproducible IO500 result traditionally achievable only by proprietary parallel filesystems. There are 33 systems listed in the IO500’s SC25 10-Node Production results, and this was the fastest NFS result ever recorded, putting Hammerspoace at number 18 in the rankings.
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AS ☛ Linus Torvalds, software engineer: “Using AI for this could be a terrible idea”
Artificial intelligence is already woven into our daily lives—especially for those who work with computers, the internet, or programming. But despite its extraordinary potential, legendary software engineer Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux and Git, believes leaning too heavily on AI is dangerous. In his words, it’s a “horrible idea” to use AI for serious, long-term projects because of how difficult it can be to maintain the code.
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EE Journal ☛ Do You Want To Be An AI Plumber?
Then along came Linux. This began in 1991 when Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old Finnish student, wrote a small Unix-like kernel “just for fun” on his 386 PC. He released it under the GNU General Public License, allowing anyone to study, modify, and improve it. The open-source community quickly piled in, pairing Linus’s kernel with the GNU userland tools to form a complete operating system. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Linux spread from hobbyist desktops to servers, supercomputers, smartphones (Android), embedded systems, and cloud datacenters. Today, Linux is everywhere, from IoT widgets to the world’s fastest supercomputers, powered by millions of contributors worldwide.