Cloud and server archives
20 posts from March 2017
USB hotplug with LXD containers
By Stéphane Graber, 29 March 2017
USB devices in containersIt can be pretty useful to pass USB devices to a container. Be that some measurement equipment in a lab or maybe more commonly, an...
Carrier Cloudification: What every telecom executive needs to know
By Tom Callway, 29 March 2017
New imperatives, technologies, and the emergence of the public cloud are forcing telecom service providers to rethink and validate their fundamental business...
NVidia CUDA inside a LXD container
By Stéphane Graber, 28 March 2017
GPU inside a container LXD supports GPU passthrough but this is implemented in a very different way than what you would expect from a virtual machine. With...
Machine learning with snaps
By Michael Hall, 28 March 2017
Late last year Amazon introduce a new EC2 image customized for Machine Learning (ML) workloads. To make things easier for data scientists and researchers,...
Bare metal server provisioning is evolving the HPC market
By Canonical, 27 March 2017
In the early days of High Performance Computing (HPC), ‘Big Data’ was just called ‘Data’ and organizations spent millions of dollars to buy mainframes or...
Video tutorial: learn how to install MAAS
By Alexia Emmanoulopoulou, 27 March 2017
This short video offers step-by-step instructions on how to install MAAS (Metal as a Service) to your machine. Before you start you’ll need: One small server...
Huawei and Canonical integrate OpenStack and CloudFabric
By Canonical, 23 March 2017
Huawei Extends its Cooperation with Canonical with the Integration of CloudFabric Data Center Network Solution and Ubuntu Cloud Solutions Hannover, Germany,...
Webinar: How to ensure the ongoing security compliance of Ubuntu 12.04
By Canonical, 22 March 2017
Many enterprises still run Ubuntu 12.04 LTS but updates will end soon. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS users are encouraged to upgrade to 14.04 LTS or 16.04 LTS. For some...
Webinar: Learn the secrets to innovative and scalable VNF deployment
By Tom Callway, 16 March 2017
Experts from Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, and Fraunhofer FOKUS explain how Open Baton, an open source, carrier-grade NFV Management and Orchestration...
GPUs and Kubernetes for deep learning — Part 3/3: Automating Tensorflow
By Samuel Cozannet, 9 March 2017
Here we are. After having spent 21min reading how to build a GPU Kubernetes cluster on AWS, 7min on adding EFS storage, you want to get to the real thing,...
GPUs and Kubernetes for deep learning — Part 2/3: Adding storage
By Samuel Cozannet, 7 March 2017
Earlier this week we built a GPU cluster and installed Kubernetes so that we can do some advanced data processing. What is the thing you need next right after...
Canonical at Google Next 2017
By Alexander Gallagher, 6 March 2017
The dramatic emergence of open source software, together with the SaaS deployment model and cloud computing, has greatly reduced software costs for...