This document discusses mediated devices and the net-mdev framework for allowing direct userspace access to network devices via VFIO. It aims to provide an alternative to kernel device drivers by allowing packet processing frameworks like DPDK and ODP to control devices from userspace. The net-mdev architecture involves a userspace library communicating with kernel drivers via netlink to setup descriptor rings and handle interrupts. An implementation for Realtek and Intel NICs showed driver changes of under 100 lines of code were needed. Further work is needed to finalize the vfio-mdev integration and handle issues with IOMMU groups and PCI mapping boundaries when porting multiple devices. The document proposes completing an understanding of the problem space and collabor
Fully programmable SmartNICs allow new offloads like OVS, eBPF, P4 or vRouter, and the Linux kernel is changing for supporting them. Having these same offloads when using DPDK is a possibility although the implications are not clear yet. Alejandro Lucero presented Netronome’s perspective for adding such a support to DPDK mainly for OVS and eBPF.
TRex is an open source, low cost, stateful traffic generator fuelled by DPDK. It generates L4-7 traffic based on pre-processing and a smart replay of real traffic templates. TRex amplifies both client and server side traffic and can scale to 200Gb/sec with one UCS.
Fully programmable SmartNICs allow new offloads like OVS, eBPF, P4 or vRouter, and the Linux kernel is changing for supporting them. Having these same offloads when using DPDK is a possibility although the implications are not clear yet. Alejandro Lucero presented Netronome’s perspective for adding such a support to DPDK mainly for OVS and eBPF.
TRex is an open source, low cost, stateful traffic generator fuelled by DPDK. It generates L4-7 traffic based on pre-processing and a smart replay of real traffic templates. TRex amplifies both client and server side traffic and can scale to 200Gb/sec with one UCS.
Disaggregation a Primer: Optimizing design for Edge Cloud & Bare Metal applic...Netronome
From the Infra//Structure Conference May 2019 by Ron Renwick of Netronome
Disaggregation a Primer:
Optimizing design for Edge Cloud & Bare Metal applications
Hyperscalers and Edge Cloud providers have recognized economic value of disaggregated infrastructure. Netronome Agilio SmartNICs enable disaggregated architectures to perform with up to 30x lower tail latency while encrypting every session using KTLS security.
Ed Warnicke's talk at Open Networking Summit.
All Open Source Networking project depend on having access to a Universal Dataplane that is:
Able to they deployment models: Bare Metal/Embedded/Cloud/Containers/NFVi/VNFs
High performance
Feature Rich
Open with Broad Community support/participation
FD.io provides all of this and more. Come learn more about FD.io and how you can begin using it.
In this talk, we outline a kernel and upstream centric approach to data plane acceleration using an upstream SmartNIC BPF JIT. This allows extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) bytecode to be transparently offloaded to the SmartNIC from either the Traffic Control (TC) or Express Data Path (XDP) hooks in the kernel and could be used for applications such as DoS protection, load balancing and software switching e.g., Open vSwitch (OVS). We then follow this by outlining the proposed ICONICS OCP contribution related to an open approach for reconfiguration using directly compiled SmartNIC programs in situations where BPF bytecode alone is not sufficient to accommodate changing semantics in the network.
SmartNICs are a new generation of intelligent Network Interface Cards (NICs). This intelligence allows NICs to offload virtual switching or other data plane functions in high-performance cloud data center servers.
Linux Native, HTTP Aware Network SecurityThomas Graf
Cilium is open source software for transparently securing the network connectivity between application services deployed using Linux container management platforms like Docker and Kubernetes.
At the foundation of Cilium is a new Linux kernel technology called BPF, which enables the dynamic insertion of powerful security visibility and control logic within Linux itself. Because BPF runs inside the Linux kernel itself, Cilium security policies can be applied and updated without any changes to the application code or container configuration.
Packet processing in the fast path involves looking up bit patterns and deciding on an actions at line rate. The complexity of these functions at Line Rate, have been traditionally handled by ASICs and NPUs. However with the availability of faster and cheaper CPUs and hardware/software accelerations, it is possible to move these functions onto commodity hardware. This tutorial will talk about the various building blocks available to speed up packet processing both hardware based e.g. SR-IOV, RDT, QAT, VMDq, VTD and software based e.g. DPDK, Fd.io/VPP, OVS etc and give hands on lab experience on DPDK and fd.io fast path look up with following sessions. 1: Introduction to Building blocks: Sujata Tibrewala
6WIND - SPEED MATTERS: The Challenge 2014 Contest Winners6WIND
Winners of SPEED MATTERS: The Challenge, DPDK Contest announced on August 26, 2014 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California during Hot Interconnects (HOTI).
Install FD.IO VPP On Intel(r) Architecture & Test with Trex*Michelle Holley
This demo/lab will guide you to install and configure FD.io Vector Packet Processing (VPP) on Intel® Architecture (AI) Server. You will also learn to install TRex* on another AI Server to send packets to the VPP, and use some VPP commands to forward packets back to the TRex*.
Speaker: Loc Nguyen. Loc is a Software Application Engineer in Data Center Scale Engineering Team. Loc joined Intel in 2005, and has worked in various projects. Before joining the network group, Loc worked in High-Performance Computing area and supported Intel® Xeon Phi™ Product Family. His interest includes computer graphics, parallel computing, and computer networking.
DPDK Summit 2015 - RIFT.io - Tim MortsolfJim St. Leger
DPDK Summit 2015 in San Francisco.
Presentation by RIFT.io's CTO Tim Mortsolf.
For additional details and the video recording please visit www.dpdksummit.com.
Accelerate Service Function Chaining Vertical Solution with DPDKOPNFV
Service Function Chaining (SFC) is one of top 5 NFV use case. Supporting SFC in provider and enterprise networks requires performance assurance. Specifically, the Classifier and the Service Function Forwarder which are typically implemented in software such as virtual switches need to match line rate requirement. DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) is an open source project comprising a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing. In this presentation, we will discuss our experiences accelerating SFC with DPDK. In addition, Telco and Datacenter carriers demands dynamic SFC that requires new SFC wire protocols (e.g. VxLAN-GPE and NSH) support in both data and control planes. We intend to share our experiences and future works of a high performance, NSH-aware SFC vertical solution with open-source ingredients: Openstack, Opendaylight, OpenvSwitch with DPDK acceleration.
The overall volume of Internet traffic has been growing in a tremendous rate day-by-day which also contains unwanted malicious traffic. It has been a continuous challenge for the network operators to effectively identify the threats from line rate traffic. Hyperscan is a pattern (in terms of regular expression) matching software ideal for applications such as intrusion prevention/detection system, antivirus, unified threat management, deep packet inspection systems, etc.
Hyperscan works in two phases. At first, the customer patterns are parsed and compiled into databases in terms of bytecode. During runtime, these bytecode are used to search for patterns against blocks/streams data. Hyperscan library runs entirely in software and scales with IA processors to provide the maximum throughput of 293 Gbps.
DPACC Acceleration Progress and DemonstrationOPNFV
The session provides an update to on the DPACC project within the OPNFV with a brief discussion on APIs and implementation progress. This session will review the API definition progress and follow up with a demo highlighting a common application as the vNF running on top of the DPACC defined layers. The demo will highlight the use of both hardware and software acceleration utilizing the DPACC defined acceleration layers. The demonstrationIt will highlight the progress in optimizing performance and latency characteristics of a platform to realize the vision of NFV while meeting stringent requirements, particularly for certain workloads, required by carriers.
TitanIC presented, "ODSA Use Case - SmartNIC," at the ODSA Workshop. The charter of the ODSA (Open Domain Specification Architecture) Workgroup is to define an open specification that enables building of Domain Specific Accelerator silicon using best-of-breed components from the industry made available as chiplet dies that can be integrated together as Lego blocks on an organic substrate packaging layer. The resulting multi-chip module (MCM) silicon can be produced at significantly lower development and manufacturing costs, and will deliver much needed performance per watt and performance per dollar efficiencies in networking, security, machine learning and other applications. The ODSA Workgroup also intends to deliver implementations of the specification as board-level prototypes, RTL code and libraries.
HKG18-110 - net_mdev: Fast path user space I/OLinaro
Session ID: HKG18-110
Session Name: HKG18-110 - net_mdev: Fast path user space I/O
Speaker: Ilias Apalodimas
Track: Networking
★ Session Summary ★
User space I/O offers significant speedup potential for data plane and other high-performance applications, but at the high cost of writing and maintaining separate device drivers. Building on the existing kernel mediated device framework originally introduced to support GPUs, net\_mdev extends this support to network I/O, requiring only minor changes to existing kernel drivers. Applications, in turn, need only provide ""mini drivers"" to handle the performance I/O paths in user space while leaving control operations in the kernel.
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★ Resources ★
Event Page: http://connect.linaro.org/resource/hkg18/hkg18-110/
Presentation: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/presentations/hkg18-110.pdf
Video: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/videos/hkg18-110.mp4
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect Hong Kong 2018 (HKG18)
19-23 March 2018
Regal Airport Hotel Hong Kong
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Keyword: Networking
'http://www.linaro.org'
'http://connect.linaro.org'
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Disaggregation a Primer: Optimizing design for Edge Cloud & Bare Metal applic...Netronome
From the Infra//Structure Conference May 2019 by Ron Renwick of Netronome
Disaggregation a Primer:
Optimizing design for Edge Cloud & Bare Metal applications
Hyperscalers and Edge Cloud providers have recognized economic value of disaggregated infrastructure. Netronome Agilio SmartNICs enable disaggregated architectures to perform with up to 30x lower tail latency while encrypting every session using KTLS security.
Ed Warnicke's talk at Open Networking Summit.
All Open Source Networking project depend on having access to a Universal Dataplane that is:
Able to they deployment models: Bare Metal/Embedded/Cloud/Containers/NFVi/VNFs
High performance
Feature Rich
Open with Broad Community support/participation
FD.io provides all of this and more. Come learn more about FD.io and how you can begin using it.
In this talk, we outline a kernel and upstream centric approach to data plane acceleration using an upstream SmartNIC BPF JIT. This allows extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) bytecode to be transparently offloaded to the SmartNIC from either the Traffic Control (TC) or Express Data Path (XDP) hooks in the kernel and could be used for applications such as DoS protection, load balancing and software switching e.g., Open vSwitch (OVS). We then follow this by outlining the proposed ICONICS OCP contribution related to an open approach for reconfiguration using directly compiled SmartNIC programs in situations where BPF bytecode alone is not sufficient to accommodate changing semantics in the network.
SmartNICs are a new generation of intelligent Network Interface Cards (NICs). This intelligence allows NICs to offload virtual switching or other data plane functions in high-performance cloud data center servers.
Linux Native, HTTP Aware Network SecurityThomas Graf
Cilium is open source software for transparently securing the network connectivity between application services deployed using Linux container management platforms like Docker and Kubernetes.
At the foundation of Cilium is a new Linux kernel technology called BPF, which enables the dynamic insertion of powerful security visibility and control logic within Linux itself. Because BPF runs inside the Linux kernel itself, Cilium security policies can be applied and updated without any changes to the application code or container configuration.
Packet processing in the fast path involves looking up bit patterns and deciding on an actions at line rate. The complexity of these functions at Line Rate, have been traditionally handled by ASICs and NPUs. However with the availability of faster and cheaper CPUs and hardware/software accelerations, it is possible to move these functions onto commodity hardware. This tutorial will talk about the various building blocks available to speed up packet processing both hardware based e.g. SR-IOV, RDT, QAT, VMDq, VTD and software based e.g. DPDK, Fd.io/VPP, OVS etc and give hands on lab experience on DPDK and fd.io fast path look up with following sessions. 1: Introduction to Building blocks: Sujata Tibrewala
6WIND - SPEED MATTERS: The Challenge 2014 Contest Winners6WIND
Winners of SPEED MATTERS: The Challenge, DPDK Contest announced on August 26, 2014 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California during Hot Interconnects (HOTI).
Install FD.IO VPP On Intel(r) Architecture & Test with Trex*Michelle Holley
This demo/lab will guide you to install and configure FD.io Vector Packet Processing (VPP) on Intel® Architecture (AI) Server. You will also learn to install TRex* on another AI Server to send packets to the VPP, and use some VPP commands to forward packets back to the TRex*.
Speaker: Loc Nguyen. Loc is a Software Application Engineer in Data Center Scale Engineering Team. Loc joined Intel in 2005, and has worked in various projects. Before joining the network group, Loc worked in High-Performance Computing area and supported Intel® Xeon Phi™ Product Family. His interest includes computer graphics, parallel computing, and computer networking.
DPDK Summit 2015 - RIFT.io - Tim MortsolfJim St. Leger
DPDK Summit 2015 in San Francisco.
Presentation by RIFT.io's CTO Tim Mortsolf.
For additional details and the video recording please visit www.dpdksummit.com.
Accelerate Service Function Chaining Vertical Solution with DPDKOPNFV
Service Function Chaining (SFC) is one of top 5 NFV use case. Supporting SFC in provider and enterprise networks requires performance assurance. Specifically, the Classifier and the Service Function Forwarder which are typically implemented in software such as virtual switches need to match line rate requirement. DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) is an open source project comprising a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing. In this presentation, we will discuss our experiences accelerating SFC with DPDK. In addition, Telco and Datacenter carriers demands dynamic SFC that requires new SFC wire protocols (e.g. VxLAN-GPE and NSH) support in both data and control planes. We intend to share our experiences and future works of a high performance, NSH-aware SFC vertical solution with open-source ingredients: Openstack, Opendaylight, OpenvSwitch with DPDK acceleration.
The overall volume of Internet traffic has been growing in a tremendous rate day-by-day which also contains unwanted malicious traffic. It has been a continuous challenge for the network operators to effectively identify the threats from line rate traffic. Hyperscan is a pattern (in terms of regular expression) matching software ideal for applications such as intrusion prevention/detection system, antivirus, unified threat management, deep packet inspection systems, etc.
Hyperscan works in two phases. At first, the customer patterns are parsed and compiled into databases in terms of bytecode. During runtime, these bytecode are used to search for patterns against blocks/streams data. Hyperscan library runs entirely in software and scales with IA processors to provide the maximum throughput of 293 Gbps.
DPACC Acceleration Progress and DemonstrationOPNFV
The session provides an update to on the DPACC project within the OPNFV with a brief discussion on APIs and implementation progress. This session will review the API definition progress and follow up with a demo highlighting a common application as the vNF running on top of the DPACC defined layers. The demo will highlight the use of both hardware and software acceleration utilizing the DPACC defined acceleration layers. The demonstrationIt will highlight the progress in optimizing performance and latency characteristics of a platform to realize the vision of NFV while meeting stringent requirements, particularly for certain workloads, required by carriers.
TitanIC presented, "ODSA Use Case - SmartNIC," at the ODSA Workshop. The charter of the ODSA (Open Domain Specification Architecture) Workgroup is to define an open specification that enables building of Domain Specific Accelerator silicon using best-of-breed components from the industry made available as chiplet dies that can be integrated together as Lego blocks on an organic substrate packaging layer. The resulting multi-chip module (MCM) silicon can be produced at significantly lower development and manufacturing costs, and will deliver much needed performance per watt and performance per dollar efficiencies in networking, security, machine learning and other applications. The ODSA Workgroup also intends to deliver implementations of the specification as board-level prototypes, RTL code and libraries.
HKG18-110 - net_mdev: Fast path user space I/OLinaro
Session ID: HKG18-110
Session Name: HKG18-110 - net_mdev: Fast path user space I/O
Speaker: Ilias Apalodimas
Track: Networking
★ Session Summary ★
User space I/O offers significant speedup potential for data plane and other high-performance applications, but at the high cost of writing and maintaining separate device drivers. Building on the existing kernel mediated device framework originally introduced to support GPUs, net\_mdev extends this support to network I/O, requiring only minor changes to existing kernel drivers. Applications, in turn, need only provide ""mini drivers"" to handle the performance I/O paths in user space while leaving control operations in the kernel.
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★ Resources ★
Event Page: http://connect.linaro.org/resource/hkg18/hkg18-110/
Presentation: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/presentations/hkg18-110.pdf
Video: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/videos/hkg18-110.mp4
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect Hong Kong 2018 (HKG18)
19-23 March 2018
Regal Airport Hotel Hong Kong
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Keyword: Networking
'http://www.linaro.org'
'http://connect.linaro.org'
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XPDDS17: Keynote: Shared Coprocessor Framework on ARM - Oleksandr Andrushchen...The Linux Foundation
With the grown interest in virtualization from big players around the world there are more and more companies choose ARM SoCs as their target platform for running server environments. It is also known that majority of such SoCs come with broad coprocessors available on the die, e.g. GPU, DSP, security etc. But at the moment the only way to speed up guests with these is either using a para-virtualized approach or making that HW dedicated to a specific guest.
Shared coprocessor framework for Xen aims to allow all guest OSes to benefit from this companion HW with ease while running unmodified software and/or firmware on guest side. You don’t need to worry about setting up IO ranges, interrupts, scheduling etc.: it is all covered, making support of new shared HW way faster.
As an example of the shared coprocessor framework usage a virtualized GPU will be shown.
Visão geral do hardware do servidor System z e Linux on z - Concurso MainframeAnderson Bassani
Apresentação realizada no evento de premiação do Concurso Mainframe 2014 que foi realizado em São Paulo, IBM Tutóia. Tópicos apresentados incluíram: hardware System zEC12 e zBC12, Linux on z, O que o System z faz que outras plataformas não fazem e um caso real de uma empresa desenvolvedora de Software.
Low-cost microcontrollers are being used more and more often in embedded applications that previously may have used a microprocessor. Microcontrollers often run a real-time operating system (RTOS) rather than a full operating system like Linux. In this webinar we introduce FreeRTOS, a popular RTOS for microcontrollers that has been ported to 35 microcontroller platforms.
Session ID: HKG18-116
Session Name: HKG18-116 - RAS Solutions for Arm64 Servers
Speaker: Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang
Track: Enterprise
★ Session Summary ★
In order to get ARM64 servers into large scale production, both out-of-band and in-band RAS (Reliability/Availability/Serviceability) solutions have to be in-par with servers of other architectures. This presentation discusses requirements and designs of various RAS solution, how hardware/firmware and higher level software working together to achieve the goals, with focus on firmware. RAS topics covered include memory, PCIe, CPU, thermal management and catastrophic errors. In addition, future directions/expectations of server RAS technologies are presented.
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★ Resources ★
Event Page: http://connect.linaro.org/resource/hkg18/hkg18-116/
Presentation: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/presentations/hkg18-116.pdf
Video: http://connect.linaro.org.s3.amazonaws.com/hkg18/videos/hkg18-116.mp4
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect Hong Kong 2018 (HKG18)
19-23 March 2018
Regal Airport Hotel Hong Kong
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Keyword: Enterprise
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'http://connect.linaro.org'
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Find out more about Infineon on our Homepage: www.infineon.com/xmc
Find here all information about XMC4000 - Advanced Microcontrollers for Industrial Solutions - 32-bit Microcontroller Family based on ARM® Cortex(tm)-M4 from Infineon Technologies.
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Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
2. LEADING COLLABORATION
IN THE ARM ECOSYSTEM
Device IO vs Device Driver
UIO/VFIO -> userland device driver
VFIO_MDEV -> userlande device IO
● Introduced in kernel 4.10.
● Currently supported by Intel i915/QEMU to support virtual GPUs.
● Offers iommu isolation using VFIO-API.
Many use cases
● WrapDrive from Huawei for accelerators (crypto…)
● net_mdev further specialized WrapDrive for net_devices
○ To be used by DPDK, ODP, VPP, Netmap, specialized stacks (TSN)
● block_mdev for SPDK…?
3. LEADING COLLABORATION
IN THE ARM ECOSYSTEM
Design goals & roles
Design goals
● Userland shall not be able to highjack kernel
○ Same attack surface as VFIO
● Bus agnostic (PCI, DPAA2, platform…)
● Userland packet framework agnostic
○ VPP packet to index
Userland
● packet memory (buffers or areas) and HW descriptors
● Leverages netlink and other control channels
Kernel driver
● control of device initialization, reset, rings…
4. LEADING COLLABORATION
IN THE ARM ECOSYSTEM
net-mdev overall architecture
net-mdev
ulib
DPDK/ODP/VPP/...
Userspace
Kernel
Doorbell MMIO(PCI BAR)
Rx Descriptor Ring
Tx Descriptor RingDevice
Driver
netlink…
vfio-mdev
5. LEADING COLLABORATION
IN THE ARM ECOSYSTEM
Reality check
Code impact
● Realtek kernel driver: 10KLOCs
● PoC sending/receiving packets from userland
○ r8169/e1000e userspace-“driver”(descriptor handling/mmio): ~100 lines
○ r8169/e1000e full ODP integration: ~ 500 lines
○ Userland ODP framework: 620 lines
○ Kernel framework(r8169/e1000e): 227 and 239 lines respectively
○ r8169 driver changes: less than 80 lines
○ e100e driver changes: less than 50 lines
Mediated device framework to be completed
Subtle security issues solved
6. LEADING COLLABORATION
IN THE ARM ECOSYSTEM
IOMMU/SMMU and VFIO refresher (memory)
IOMMU groups: internal
IOMMU domains: API
“Domains”: DMAR or process or VM or...
can contain multiple IOMMU groups
VFIO container
IOMMU paging
granularity
MMU
IOMMU (Intel)
SMMU (ARM)
kmalloc: FFFFFF80021000000
Physical: 20000000000
IOVA: FC00000
userland : 1000000000
7. LEADING COLLABORATION
IN THE ARM ECOSYSTEM
Solving problems
Finalize vfio-mdev for IOMMU
● Currently deals only with remapping and device emulation
● Single IOVA for all groups to allow packet forwarding
● Streaming DMA handling
Subpage PCI mapping for “door bell” and other stuff
● Problem appears with N ports = 1 PCI device and only p<N captured ports
○ Cannot allow PCI mapping: IOCTL or CPU innovation required
Dealing with rings setup
● Complex activity, page aligned boundaries (MMU & IOMMU)
● Need to be domain IOVA, not group IOVA
8. LEADING COLLABORATION
IN THE ARM ECOSYSTEM
Plan
Complete understanding of problem space
● More complete framework (statistics - TUN/TAP value?)
● Have DPDK PMD, ODP driver, VPP driver
Who wants to collaborate?
Summarize in RFC for upstream and get guidance
