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GCP – Using Google Kubernetes Engine’s GPU sharing to search for neutrinos
Editor’s note: Today we hear from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and University of Wisconsin-Madison about how GPU sharing in Google Kubernetes Engines is helping them detect neutrinos at the South Pole with the gigaton-scale IceCube Neutrino Observatory. IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a detector at the South Pole designed to search for nearly massless […]
GCP – Deploying Arm workloads on GKE Autopilot with the Scale-Out compute class
GKE Autopilot is a full-featured, fully managed Kubernetes platform that combines the full power of the Kubernetes API with a hands-off approach to cluster management and operations. Since launching Autopilot last year, we’ve continued to innovate, adding capabilities to meet the demands of your workloads. We’re excited to introduce the concept of compute classes in […]
GCP – Google Cloud Data Heroes Series: Meet Tomi, a data engineer based in Germany and creator of the ‘Not So BigQuery Newsletter’
Google Cloud Data Heroes is a series where we share stories of the everyday heroes who use our data tools to do incredible things. Like any good superhero tale, we explore our Google Cloud Data Heroes’ origin stories, how they moved from data chaos to a data-driven environment, what projects and challenges they are overcoming […]
GCP – Scalable Python on BigQuery using Dask and GPUs
BigQuery is Google Cloud’s fully managed serverless data platform that supports querying using ANSI SQL. BigQuery also has a data lake storage engine that unifies SQL queries with other open source processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Tensorflow, and Dask. BigQuery storage provides an API layer for OSS engines to process data. This API enables […]
AWS – AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices now supports high performance NFS data transfer in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Snowball Edge (SBE) Storage Optimized devices now support high performance Network File System (NFS) data-transfer operations in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With this launch, AWS GovCloud (US) customers can now transfer up to 80-TBs of data onto Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices through file or object interfaces. The file interface exposes a Network […]
AWS – Announcing Cloudscape Design System, an open source solution for building intuitive web applications
Today, we’re excited to announce Cloudscape Design System, an open source solution for building intuitive, engaging, and inclusive user experiences at scale. Cloudscape consists of an extensive set of guidelines to create web applications, along with the design resources and front-end components to streamline implementation. Read More for the details.
AWS – New Amazon EBS Elastic Volumes automated performance settings make it even easier to modify volumes and save costs
As your application needs change, Amazon EBS Elastic Volumes allows you to easily increase capacity, tune performance, and change the type of Amazon EBS volumes. Customers are using EBS Elastic Volumes to migrate to gp3 volumes and save up to 20% per GB compared to gp2 volumes. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Web is now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions
Amazon WorkSpaces Web is now generally available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions. Creating a WorkSpaces Web portal in a local region provides a more responsive experience for users when streaming web content. It also enables customers to meet local data residency obligations. WorkSpaces Web […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces open source ODBC driver with binary protocol support and enhanced performance
The Amazon Redshift ODBC driver is now open source and available for the user community under the Apache-2.0 license. With this release, customers will gain enhanced visibility to the driver implementation and can contribute to its development. Users can browse the code for the ODBC driver on the relevant AWS GitHub repository, submit driver functionality […]
AWS – Porting Assistant for .NET adds support for assessment and porting of VB.NET applications to .NET Core
Porting Assistant for .NET now supports assessment and porting of legacy .NET Framework applications written in VB.NET language. With this release, Porting Assistant will translate VB.NET class libraries, web APIs, and console applications to .NET Core 3.1, .NET 5, or .NET 6 to simplify the modernization of legacy .NET Framework applications written in VB.NET . […]