The real motivation behind the Matrix engine (GPU/TPU/…) adoption in HPCThere is current backlash in the HPC community against GPU/TPU/… aka matrix engine accelerator adoption. Most of the arguments are…Nov 7, 2020191Nov 7, 2020191
Data is the new oil fueling Machine learning adoption but Business are discovering #AI is no…Data is the new oil. However, unlike oil, as data scarcity is becoming less of a problem, processing costs are skyrocketing. The business…Jul 1, 2020101Jul 1, 2020101
The rise of Domain-Specific AcceleratorsTwo recent articles indicate a certain pick up of Domain-specific Accelerators adoption. With the end of Moore’s Law, domain-specific…Jun 23, 2020144Jun 23, 2020144
Stop throwing GPU at HPC, Not all scientific problems are compute denseThe current race exascale has put a heavy emphasis on GPU-based acceleration at the detriment of other architecture. However, Crossroads…Jun 22, 2020114Jun 22, 2020114
Yet another Red Queen Project : Franco-German Gaia-XFor some reason, the EU and especially the French government love moonshot project. The only problem is that they tend to be launched…Jun 19, 202061Jun 19, 202061
With enough data and/or fine-tuning, simpler models are as good as more complex modelsThis is an age-old issue that seems to repeat itself in every field. There are a couple of recent papers published criticising the race to…Jun 19, 202070Jun 19, 202070
Google Cloud GKE control plane price introduction: the tragedy of the commons or bait and switch?Recently when GCP announced that On June 6, 2020, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters will start accruing a management fee. The fee is…Mar 6, 202053Mar 6, 202053
Amazon ads stuffing and upcoming “China Crisis.”This article on #amazon stuffing its search results with ads reminded me of the tipping point when I did the switch from #altavista to…Sep 12, 2018Sep 12, 2018
Microsoft aim at undercutting AWS strategic advantage with its Github acquisitionMicrosoft acquired Github code sharing platform. This is a brilliant move. It allows Microsoft to offset some of the insane advantages that…Jun 4, 2018Jun 4, 2018
The curse of low-tech ScrumI recently read the following article that describes how scrum disempowers devs. It criticises the “sell books and consulting” aspect that…May 30, 2018May 30, 2018
Hedging GDPR with Edge ComputingCloud has drastically changed the way companies deal with data as well as compute resource. It is no more constraint by tedious and long…May 18, 2018May 18, 2018
A look at Google gVisor OCI runtimeGoogle released a new OCI container runtime: gVisor. This runtime aim at solving part of the security concerns associated with the current…May 9, 2018May 9, 2018
State of Intellectual Property protection, or lack of thereof, by cloud services providersIn 2015 AWS started making the news regarding its aggressive “Non-Assert Clause” in its terms of services. This type of clause exists to…May 2, 2018May 2, 2018
Ancillary business opportunities from the emergence of autonomous ride share car servicesThe list of self-driving vehicles and companies starting to offer services of these vehicles is ever growing. I recently started to be…Jan 11, 2017Jan 11, 2017
Another tale of Execs bottom-up Blindness : SAP, Oracle, [Insert Software Giant here] vs AWSAfter watching this year’s AWS re:Invent show, I can help but have this strange feeling of “déjà vu”. AWS achieve to deliver exciting new…Dec 7, 2016Dec 7, 2016
Notes on SNIA Storage Developer Conference 2016This year SNIA Storage Developer Conference, chosen bits :Oct 11, 2016Oct 11, 2016
Microservices Architecture a Securitization of technical debtThought for today: when I reflect on certain microservice architecture, I feel like an investor banker-type is pitching to me a new form of…May 20, 2016May 20, 2016
Corporate Strategy ConformismOne of the frustrating aspects of corporate behavior is the tendency for a large portion of the enterprise population to chose the most…May 10, 2016May 10, 2016
PureStorage bring us one step closer to micro storage architecturePure storage just released its Flashblade product. It is an fabric connected object storage solution. It is a modular solution composed of…May 2, 2016May 2, 2016
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