[Links of the Day] 05/05/2017 : Machine learning Cheet Sheet, Sarcasm corpus for your #AI and hardening your architecture

• Machine Learning Cheat Sheet : Ok it's more than one pager, but it contains pretty much all the essential machine learning info.
• A Large Self-Annotated Corpus for Sarcasm : If you want to make your chatbot even more annoying .. This is what you need. 
• Resilient Functional Service Design : Hardening your distributed architecture the right way

[Links of the Day] 05/04/2017 : Large network resilience, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning & Bayesian reasoning

• Understanding resilience in large networks : Thesis looking into the analysis of robustness in large interconnected networks. It looks at how disturbance propagates through nodes in networks and the characteristics that help these network to handle such shock and recuperate from it. 
• Notes on Theory of Distributed Systems :  Yale distributed system course note. 
• Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning : Book that does an excellent job at teaching machine learning that doesn't assume an extended background in undergraduate calculus and linear algebra of the reader.

[Links of the Day] 23/11/2016 : AMD Exascale vision, Hardware Resiliency myths and truths, MIT EmTech

• Resiliency for Reliability– Myths and Truths : this slide deck provide an overview of the resiliency issue and how Intel tackle those for  hardware fault. From fans down to soft errors ( ex: neutron beam ... yes this can £%£ your system). The authors present the two type of approach , reactive and proactive handling of errors.
• AMD's Exascale computing vision : Its all about 3d stacked chip with future interconnect. The interesting bit is the ROCM platform and the P2P multiGPU and P2P with RDMA. Slowly we are removing the need to have a full server to deploy GPU, one step closer to fully modular system with each resourced pooled and optimized in their own enclosure. Its a lot easier to design power supply, cooling system, etc.. When you do not have to deal with heterogeneous hardware with different power, and cooling profile ( cpu, memory , disk etc.. in the same enclosure).
• MIT EmTech 16 : This year MIT EmTech is all about AI & machine learning ... reaching maximum hype in the domain

Links of the day 13 - 02 - 2015

Today's links 13/02/2015: Scalable and resilience web site, CAP theorem, automated log analyzer and Exascale HPC challenges

• Scalable and Resilient website : lessons learned from all the biggest sites on the internet about how to build scalable and resilient architectures. 
• Perspectives on the CAP theorem : paper summary that show the CAP theorem in the broader context of a family of results in distributed computing theory that shows impossibility of guaranteeing both safety and liveness in an unreliable distributed system.
• Sequence: Automated Analyzer for Reducing 100,000's of Log Messages to 10's of Patterns
• Algorithmic and Software Challenges atExtreme Scales : presentation by Jack Dongarra  , quite redundant as the same theme are pretty common to all HPC exascale challenge : matrix operations optimizations, power, resilience, scalability, etc..

IBM Photonic 3D chip

Links of the day 19 - 11 - 2014

Today's links 19/11/2014: #resiliency, #cloud , distributed system, #stream processing

• Resilient by Design : React SF 2014 talk by Ben Christensen on how Netflix use the application of reactive design principles to guarantee resiliency. 
• The Distributed Developer Stack : opensource Field Guide by O'reilly crowd 
• Kafka and Samza : Distributed stream processing slide deck

Links of the day 15 - 10 - 2014

Today's links 15/10/2014: Resiliency , CEPH , storage, RDMA, NVM

• Billion-Way Resiliency Project : what is interesting to see is as we move more and more toward hyper scale system, previously dismissed DRAM error becomes a predominant challenge 
• CEPH days : [slides] 
• High performance Ceph with RDMA : leverage Mellanox Accelio to deliver RDMA transport layer. 
• Persistent memory programming (pmem): NVM Library builds on the Direct Access (DAX - note: not yet in upstream kernel)