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Vcinity’s Data Access Platform (VDAP) defeats remote data gravity, providing local disk access speed to data at inter-continental distances. It goes against the perceived wisdom by not moving entire datasets to compute. Instead it shifts chunks of data using remote direct memory access (RDMA) inside IP packets across global distances and enables real-time compute on […]

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Demand for faster processing with increasingly diverse applications is prompting very different compute models.

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The Metaverse of Snow Crash is not a good analogy for the future, as the Internet breaks down into Stephenson’s dystopia

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Conan is an open source, decentralized and multi-platform package manager for C/C++ that allows you to create and share all your native binaries.

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To say Kubernetes has made a huge impact on development practices might be the understatement of the 21st century, as its use continues to expand at a blistering pace. In fact, a recent Kubernetes Adoption Survey conducted by found that 68% of IT professionals increased their Kubernetes use due to the pandemic. That increase is…

Do you see system logs flooded with Named error network unreachable message? This tutorial explains the reason for this error.

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