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IBM, Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 1st of November 2019 04:44:27 AM Filed under
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  • Hypercalers Lead The Way To The Future With SmartNICs

    The RISC processor, invented by John Cocke at IBM Research in 1974, was originally intended to be put into a telephone switch that could handle the then-huge workload of 1 million calls per hour. But this 801 processor, as IBM called its first RISC chip, ended up as an intelligent controller in mainframe disk drives and eventually migrated down into the RT PC as the Unix workstation market was coalescing in the mid-1980s. With the rise of Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and Data General in the Unix workstation and then server businesses, IBM launched project “America,” which put a revamped RISC architecture, known as Power, with lots of oomph at the center of a new line of systems, called the RS/6000. Ironically, IBM’s System/38 and AS/400 minicomputers, launched in 1978 and 1988, respectively, had a relatively modest CISC engine – we always thought this CISC processor was a licensed Motorola 68K processor with its memory addressing and processing extended from 32 bits to 48 bits, and that was because these systems had what IBM called “intelligent I/O processors” that ran chunks of the operating system microcode remotely from the CPUs. And these IOPs were all based on Motorola 68K chips. So why not keep the architecture all similar and make a funky 48-bit 68K? In any event, IBM eventually consolidated the AS/400 and RS/6000 minicomputer designs, and one of the things that got dropped into the bucket of history was the IOP; all of the I/O processing was brought back into the processor. And here we are, now two decades later, and it looks like the industry is getting ready to offload it back onto SmartNICs because, once again, CPU processing is to be cherished and optimized.

  • Building Cloud Native Apps that Scale with NuoDB on OpenShift – OpenShift Commons Briefing

    In this briefing, Joe Leslie, Senior Product Manager for NuoDB and Tom Gates (lead Operator developer) gives us an update/overview on Nuodb’s recently developed NuoDB Operator for OpenShift developed in Go. Joe walks us thru building cloud-native applications with a container-native SQL database leveraging OpenShift and NuoDB.

    He demos the NuoDB Operator, deploy a NuoDB database, a SQL workload, and on-cluster NuoDB Insights visual monitoring. He shows how to scale the database using OpenShift and create failure events to demonstrate auto-recovery.

  • OpenShift Commons Gathering on AI and ML – San Francisco [Slides and Videos]

    The OpenShift Commons Gathering on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in San Francisco at ODSC/West brought together data scientists and Kubernetes experts from all over the world to discuss the container technologies, operators, the operator framework, best practices for cloud-native application developers and the open source software projects that underpin the OpenShift ecosystem to help take us all to the next level in delivering cloud-native computing resources for AI & ML workloads. This gathering featured data scientists, developers, project leads, cloud architects, operator builders, sysadmins, and cloud-native practitioners coming together to explore the next steps in making container technologies successful and secure at scale.

  • Join us in #redhat-cpe on Freenode

    Many moons ago, Red Hat merged the CentOS infrastructure team with the Fedora Infrastructure team, into a team known as "Community Platform Engineering" (CPE). Most of the individuals on the combined team have mostly continued to focus on the project they were assigned to before the merger, but as time has gone by we have looked for opportunities to collaborate more.

  • Miroslav Suchý: New hope for Packages app

    Jun Aruga and I worked on a rewrite of Fedora Packages

    https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/

    While this application is useful, it is written in Python 2. To quote current maintainer Clement Verna:

    “… the big problem is the technology stack it is built on TurboGears2 and making heavy use of Moksha (https://moksha.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), while TG2 is still active upstream, this is not the case with Moksha and some of the TG2 dependencies the application has. The effort to move away from these two frameworks is quite high, and I don’t think we currently have the cycles for it…”

    We offered help and rewritten the application in Python 3, Flask, and PatternFly. We were able to rewrite around 40 percent of the code/templates. T

  • Fedora-related FOSDEM activities

    FOSDEM is a free-to-attend event held every year in Brussels, Belgium. It is a community-run event for developers to meet and work together. In 2020 it will be held on 1–2 February—the weekend following DevConf.CZ. The main track proposals are closed, but there are a few Fedora-related or -adjacent activities if you’re interested.

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