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The Challenges of Building Cyber-Physical Systems
There are several challenges in building hardware-reliant cyber-physical systems, such as hardware lead times, organisational structure, common language, system decomposition, cross-team communication, alignment, and culture. A solution to such challenges is to apply agile at the systems level, and to architect both hardware and software into modular components.
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AWS Unveils Fourth-Generation Graviton Processor with R8g EC2 Instances
During the recent re:Invent, AWS announced the preview of memory-optimized R8g instances powered by the fourth-generation Graviton processor. The new instances are designed for memory-intensive workloads, including databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics.
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Building Cyber-Physical Systems with Agile: Learnings from QCon New York
In her QCon New York 2023 talk Success Patterns for building Cyber-Physical Systems with Agile, Robin Yeman explored how we can use agile practices at scale for large initiatives with multiple teams, building cyber-physical safety-critical systems with a scope that includes software, firmware, and hardware development.
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Azure Previews ND H100 V5 Virtual Machines to Accelerate Generative AI
Azure recently announced the preview of the ND H100 v5, virtual machines that integrate the latest Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs and support Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. According to Microsoft, the new option will offer AI developers improved performance and scaling across thousands of GPUs.
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Meta Announces Next Generation AI Hardware Platform Grand Teton
Meta recently announced Grand Teton, their next-generation hardware platform for AI training. Grand Teton features several improvements over the previous generation, including 2x the network bandwidth and 4x the host-to-GPU bandwidth.
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Google Expands the Tau VM Family with Arm-Based Processors
Recently, Google announced its Cloud Virtual Machines (VMs) based on the Arm architecture of Compute Engine called Tau T2A. These VMs are the latest addition to the Tau VM family that offers VMs optimized for cost-effective performance for scale-out workloads and are available in preview.
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AWS Releases IoT ExpressLink: Cloud-Connectivity Software for Hardware Modules
Amazon recently announced the general availability of AWS IoT ExpressLink. The cloud-connectivity software supports wireless hardware modules to build IoT products that connect with cloud services.
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AWS Releases First Graviton3 Instances
AWS has recently announced the general availability of the C7g instances, the first EC2 instances running Graviton3 processors. Designed for compute-intensive workloads, they provide always-on memory encryption, dedicated caches for every vCPU, and support for pointer authentication.
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Increasing Collaboration at Ericsson: Hardware and Software Developers Learn Each Other's Language
You can integrate hardware and software development with a cross-border team setup, where it’s important that hardware and software developers speak each other’s languages. The suggestion is to focus on “us” instead of “we” and “them”, and on the technical competence that connects developers over agile or lean terminology.
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ARM Releases PlasticARM, a Plastic-Based Flexible Microchip
ARM takes another step forward towards powering a real IoT revolution: PlasticARM, its newly announced plastic based microchip, brings 18000 logic gates, 12 times more than previous models, and is the most complex flexible microchip to date.
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Amazon Announces New Bare Metal EC2 Instances
AWS recently announced new bare metal instances for Amazon EC2. The new M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn instances are already available and can utilize up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth.
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Raspberry Pi 400 Is an ARM Linux Desktop PC
The Raspberry Pi 400 is a fully-functional Linux desktop computer and a Pi device. It is much cheaper than laptops or Chromebooks on the market, and yet could be more suitable for kids and students with a large ecosystem of STEM education materials and programs.
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Hardware Attack Exposes nRF52 Debugger
A hardware bypass enables attackers to restore full debug capabilities in the nRF52 radio chipset, used in many consumer and medical devices. Fault injection re-enables debugging in a way that attacks the silicon, unpatchable in software.
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Can We Build Trustable Hardware? Andrew Huang at 36C3
Andrew “bunnie” Huang recently presented at 36C3 on ‘Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware’ with an accompanying blog post ‘Can We Build Trustable Hardware?’ His central point is that Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use is very different for hardware versus software, and so open source is less helpful in mitigating the array of potential attacks in the threat model.
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Oxide Computer Company Launch
Jessie Frazelle, Bryan Cantrill and Steve Tuck have announced the launch of Oxide Computer Company to deliver ‘hyperscaler infrastructure for the rest of us’. The company aims to tackle the ‘infrastructure privilege’ presently enjoyed by hyperscale operators by developing ‘software to manage a full rack from first principles’, including platform firmware.