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  Data centre automation for HPC
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  Friction points in HPC DevOps Many High Performance Computing (HPC) setups are still handcrafted configurations where tuning changes can take days or weeks. This is because the more you tune and optimise something, the more bespoke and unique it is, and the more unique something is, the lower the chances that things will just work […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/data-centre-automation-for-hpc
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  Installing ROS in LXD Containers
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  It’s the season for updates. The last few weeks have ushered in ROS 1 Noetic and ROS 2 Foxy, both of which target the recently released Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa. As always, new releases come with trepidation: how can I install new software and test compatibility, yet keep my own environment stable until I know […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/installing-ros-in-lxd
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  What is Apache Kafka and will it transform your cloud?
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  (Want any cloud app managed? Reach out to Canonical now. Watch our webinar onApache Kafka in production, and submit your plan for review by our app engineers.) Everyone hates waiting in a queue. On the other hand, when you’re moving gigabytes of data around a cloud environment, message queues are your best friend. Enter Apache […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/what-is-apache-kafka
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  Split Personality Snaps
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  Broadly speaking, most snaps in the Snap Store fall into one of two categories, desktop applications and server daemons. The graphical applications such as Chromium and Spotify use desktop files, which ensure they can be opened on demand by any user via a menu or launcher. The server applications such as NextCloud and AdGuard-Home typically […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/split-personality-snaps
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  Split Personality Snaps
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  Broadly speaking, most snaps in the Snap Store fall into one of two categories, desktop applications and server daemons. The graphical applications such as Chromium and Spotify use desktop files, which ensure they can be opened on demand by any user via a menu or launcher. The server applications such as NextCloud and AdGuard-Home typically […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/split-personality-snaps
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  Open source holds the key to autonomous vehicles
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  A growing number of car companies have made their autonomous vehicle (AV) datasets public in recent years.  Daimler fueled the trend by making its Cityscapes dataset freely available in 2016. Baidu and Aptiv respectively shared the ApolloScapes and nuScenes datasets in 2018. Lyft, Waymo and Argo followed suit in 2019. And more recently, automotive juggernauts […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/open-source-economics-hold-the-key-to-autonomous-vehicles
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  Open source holds the key to autonomous vehicles
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  A growing number of car companies have made their autonomous vehicle (AV) datasets public in recent years.  Daimler fueled the trend by making its Cityscapes dataset freely available in 2016. Baidu and Aptiv respectively shared the ApolloScapes and nuScenes datasets in 2018. Lyft, Waymo and Argo followed suit in 2019. And more recently, automotive juggernauts […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/open-source-economics-hold-the-key-to-autonomous-vehicles
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  Ceph storage on VMware
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  If you were thinking that nothing will change in your VMware data centre in the following years, think again. Data centre storage is experiencing a paradigm shift. Software-defined storage solutions, such as Ceph, bring flexibility and reduce operational costs. As a result, Ceph storage on VMware has the potential to revolutionise VMware clusters where SAN […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/ceph-storage-on-vmware
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  Ceph storage on VMware
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  If you were thinking that nothing will change in your VMware data centre in the following years, think again. Data centre storage is experiencing a paradigm shift. Software-defined storage solutions, such as Ceph, bring flexibility and reduce operational costs. As a result, Ceph storage on VMware has the potential to revolutionise VMware clusters where SAN […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/ceph-storage-on-vmware
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  Data science workflows on Kubernetes with Kubeflow pipelines: Part 1
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  Kubeflow Pipelines are a great way to build portable, scalable machine learning workflows. It is one part of a larger Kubeflow ecosystem that aims to reduce the complexity and time involved with training and deploying machine learning models at scale. In this blog series, we demystify Kubeflow pipelines and showcase this method to produce reusable […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/data-science-workflows-on-kubernetes-with-kubeflow-pipelines-part-1
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  Data science workflows on Kubernetes with Kubeflow pipelines: Part 1
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  Kubeflow Pipelines are a great way to build portable, scalable machine learning workflows. It is one part of a larger Kubeflow ecosystem that aims to reduce the complexity and time involved with training and deploying machine learning models at scale. In this blog series, we demystify Kubeflow pipelines and showcase this method to produce reusable […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/data-science-workflows-on-kubernetes-with-kubeflow-pipelines-part-1
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  MAAS 2.8 – new features
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  What’s new? This new release of MAAS brings three key new benefits: Virtual machines with LXD (Beta) Tighter, more responsive UX External/remote PostgreSQL database If you know what you want, go to maas.io/install, otherwise let’s dive in and explore these further. Virtual machines (VMs) with LXD (Beta) MAAS 2.8 can set up L XD-based VM […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/maas-2-8-new-features
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  MAAS 2.8 – new features
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  What’s new? This new release of MAAS brings three key new benefits: Virtual machines with LXD (Beta) Tighter, more responsive UX External/remote PostgreSQL database If you know what you want, go to maas.io/install, otherwise let’s dive in and explore these further. Virtual machines (VMs) with LXD (Beta) MAAS 2.8 can set up L XD-based VM […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/maas-2-8-new-features
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  Ubuntu Masters 3: the community expands
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  What is Ubuntu Masters? The Ubuntu Masters conference stemmed from a vision to bring the engineering community together to freely exchange innovative ideas, in the spirit of open source. After two hugely successful conferences, connecting IT teams across industries and countries, and featuring speakers from innovators such as Adobe, Netflix, Roblox, and more, Ubuntu Masters […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-masters-3-the-community-expands
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  Ubuntu Masters 3: the community expands
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  What is Ubuntu Masters? The Ubuntu Masters conference stemmed from a vision to bring the engineering community together to freely exchange innovative ideas, in the spirit of open source. After two hugely successful conferences, connecting IT teams across industries and countries, and featuring speakers from innovators such as Adobe, Netflix, Roblox, and more, Ubuntu Masters […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-masters-3-the-community-expands
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  AMD EPYC Rome support in Ubuntu Server
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  The second generation of AMD EPYC central processing unit (CPU), codenamed Rome, provides outstanding performance and “hardened at the code” security. It was launched in 2019 and has already been widely adopted. Support for AMD EPYC Rome has been merged to the Linux kernel starting with 5.4 series. Therefore, all Ubuntu releases with 5.4 kernel […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/amd-epyc-rome-support-in-ubuntu-server
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  AMD EPYC Rome support in Ubuntu Server
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  The second generation of AMD EPYC central processing unit (CPU), codenamed Rome, provides outstanding performance and “hardened at the code” security. It was launched in 2019 and has already been widely adopted. Support for AMD EPYC Rome has been merged to the Linux kernel starting with 5.4 series. Therefore, all Ubuntu releases with 5.4 kernel […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/amd-epyc-rome-support-in-ubuntu-server
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  Building an Ubuntu Core 18 image for Nitrogen i.MX6 board
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  This article is written by Taiten Peng. Have you got i.MX6 hardware and are wondering how Ubuntu Core would run on it? In this blog, we will build an Ubuntu Core 18 image with the generic Ubuntu kernel for an i.MX6 based Boundary Devices board. The Nitrogen6X hardware from Boundary Device is well supported upstream […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/building-an-ubuntu-core-18-image-for-nitrogen-i-mx6-board
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  Building an Ubuntu Core 18 image for Nitrogen i.MX6 board
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  This article is written by Taiten Peng. Have you got i.MX6 hardware and are wondering how Ubuntu Core would run on it? In this blog, we will build an Ubuntu Core 18 image with the generic Ubuntu kernel for an i.MX6 based Boundary Devices board. The Nitrogen6X hardware from Boundary Device is well supported upstream […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com//blog/building-an-ubuntu-core-18-image-for-nitrogen-i-mx6-board
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  Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed is now available
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  The Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is now available in North America and selected EMEA countries* certified with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed to work straight out of the box. This is the first system available on the market with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, released in April 2020, and continues the long-standing partnership with Canonical which is […]

  
  
  https://ubuntu.com/blog/dell-xps-13-developer-edition-with-ubuntu-20-04-lts-pre-installed-is-now-available