Thu.Apr 26, 2018

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A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators

ACM Sigarch

In the workshop on Inter-Disciplinary Research Challenges in Computer Systems (Grand Challenges) co-located with ASPLOS 2018, Dr. Hillery Hunter from IBM and I co-organized a panel discussion on “Augmenting Human Abilities/AI” During the discussion, inspired by a recent interesting article , I did a quick survey on various AI hardware accelerators developed in the last several years: Other than CPU/GPU that we are familiar with, we have seem many xPUs that are related to AI hardwa

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How to customize an Istio service mesh

O'Reilly Software

Choose an Istio sidecar for reliability, observability, and security. Even though service meshes provide value outside of the use of microservices and containers, it's in these environments that many teams first consider using a service mesh. The sheer volume of services that must be managed on an individual, distributed basis with microservices (versus centrally for a monolith) creates challenges for ensuring reliability, observability, and security of these services.