For years I ran this blog on a very old, outdated CMS. It had been unsupported for a long time, and I had zero interest in maintaining it. My only interest was writing about things I found important...
Long time no updates on my blog. Need to change that… @UberCloud we published a whitepaper about our experiences running HPC workload on Kubernetes. You can download it here. A shortened version...
Many enterprises adopting cloud application platforms like Pivotal Application Service and container orchestrators like Kubernetes for running their business applications and services. One of the...
New workload types and management systems popping up once in a while. Blockchain based workload types started to run on CPUs, then on GPUs, some of them later even on ASICs. Recent success of AI...
A few days ago Pivotal released version 1.3 of its solution for enterprise ready container orchestration. Unfortunately the days of release parties are gone but let me privately celebrate the advent...
During the widespread adoption of container technologies Unikernels have been seen for a very short while as potentiell successor technology. Docker bought Unikernel Systems in January 2016. After...
Since a few days Pivotal grants access to Pivotal Function Service for early adopters. All what is required for testing PFS is an account at Pivotal Network (which can be setup within minutes) and a...
That Go (#golang) works very well accessing C libraries is widely known. The DRMAA and DRMAA2 Go wrappers for example accessing the native C shared libraries provided by the Grid Engine installation....
Collecting time series data like stock market or home automation data and storing it in InfluxDB is easy using the new Go client library of InfluxDB. The next step is displaying the data like...
InfluxDB is a simple time series database written entirely in Go without external dependencies. This makes it attractive to have it running on a Raspberry 24/7 to collect home automation or stock...
A nice presentation about how to use the Go programming language (#golang) with CUDA (from FOSDEM 2014): Scientific GPU Computing with Google's Go Language
The new version keeps compatiblity and adds several language and library changes. Some of them are method values, terminating statements, the size of int on lx-amd64 (now 64 bit), as well as heap...
Thanks to Docker (and Go of course) containers are applied for a broad range of use cases. They became especially important in the services world, for testing and development, and they also start to...