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NVIDIA Grace CPU superchip architecture in depth

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NVIDIA Grace CPU is the first data center CPU developed by NVIDIA. By combining NVIDIA expertise with Arm processors, on-chip fabrics, System-on-Chip (SoC) design, and resilient high-bandwidth low-power memory technologies, the NVIDIA Grace CPU was built from the ground up to create the world’s first superchips for computing. By Jonathon Evans, Ian Finder, Ivan Goldwasser, John Linford, Vishal Mehta, Daniel Ruiz and Mathias Wagner.

The NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip pairs a power efficient, high-bandwidth NVIDIA Grace CPU with a powerful NVIDIA H100 Hopper GPU using NVLink-C2C to maximize the capabilities for strong-scaling high performance computing (HPC) and giant AI workloads. More information is available in the NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip Whitepaper.

Further in the article:

  • A superchip built for HPC and AI workloads
  • Alleviate bottlenecks with NVLink-C2C Interconnect
  • NVIDIA Grace CPU core architecture
  • NVIDIA Grace CPU software

The NVIDIA Grace Superchip Architecture Whitepaper expands on the details covered in this post. It provides an in-depth explanation of how the NVIDIA Grace CPU delivers the superior performance shown in Figure 1, as well as the technology innovations behind the performance.

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Empowering students to develop an Agile mindset

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Fostering collaboration in the classroom is vital in preparing our students for life. Working in groups can be challenging, which is why implementing an agility framework can become a powerful tool. Developing an agile mindset will empower students to take ownership of their learning while developing social-emotional and critical thinking skills. By Greta Sandler.

Students team agreements board

Source: https://www.iste.org/explore/empowering-students-develop-agile-mindset

Let’s take a look at the steps to implement an agile framework in the classroom:

  • Grouping students
  • Team agreements
  • Sprint (learning progress)
  • Sprint review (reflection time)
  • Retrospective

Before the groups engage in the project, it’s essential to start building trusting relationships among team members by establishing team agreements. Each team should create its Definition of Fun (DoF). By DoF, the teams in your classroom are simply agreeing on what their needs are in order to enjoy learning and working together. Examples might be sharing creative ideas or respecting each other. This promotes safer learning environments and helps develop stronger teams. Very interesting for anybody devoted to edtech!

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Kotlin coroutines - A comprehensive introduction

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This article introduces Kotlin coroutines, a powerful tool for asynchronous programming. Kotlin’s coroutines fall under the umbrella of structured concurrency. They implement a model of concurrency which you can consider similar to Java virtual threads, Cats Effect and ZIO fibers. By Daniel Ciocîrlan.

The article requires a minimum knowledge of the Kotlin language. Still, you should be fine if you come from a Scala background. The topics discussed:

  • Background and setup
  • Why coroutines?
  • Suspending functions
  • Coroutine scope and structural concurrency
  • Coroutine builders
  • Cooperative scheduling
  • Cancellation

Our journey through the basics of the Kotlin coroutines library is over. We saw why coroutines matter and made a simplified explanation of how they’re implemented under the hood. Then, we showed how to create coroutines, also introducing the structural concurrency topic. We saw how cooperative scheduling and cancellation work with many examples. Finally, we introduced the main features of the coroutines’ context. There is a lot more to say about coroutines, but we hope this article can be a good starting point for those who want to learn more about them. Good read!

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Data structures 101: How to use stacks and queues in Java

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Mastering data structures is a non-negotiable skill for success as a developer. Efficient data structures help execute effective programs. Today, many programming roles require great knowledge of data structures. They are also a fundamental part of coding interviews. By The Educative Team.

In programming, a stack is an abstract, linear data type with a predefined capacity (or boundary). It follows a particular order for adding or removing elements. Linear data structures organize their components in a straight line, so if we add or remove an element, they will grow or shrink respectively.

In the article authors will cover:

  • What is a Stack?
  • What is a Queue?
  • Pros and Cons of Stack and Queues
  • Essential operations
  • How to implement a Stack in Java
  • How to implement a Queue in Java
  • What to learn next & interview questions

Authors hope you now have a good foundation of how stacks and queues data structures work. There’s so much more to learn to master queues and stacks in Java. Nice one!

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Building a remote control car from scratch using Elixir

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From the car straight to the app on your phone, check out how our America office uses Elixir’s fullstack capability to build a remote control car. By Ricardo Lanziano.

The basic idea is for us to move a pair of wheels. In order to do that, we need a device that is capable of power and can control a couple of motors. We decided to use a L298n motor driver that is easily available in the local electronics stores.

Elixir is undoubtedly one of the most comprehensive full stack languages available, offering battle-tested reliability and fault-tolerance on the backend. This is thanks to its origins in Erlang, the BEAM VM and OTP, powerful and agile frontend development thanks to LiveView and the ability to write to hardware with Nerves (not to mention the exciting developments happening in the machine learning space).

Main section of this article:

  • Requirements
  • Theory
  • Starting the project
  • Tune in
  • Powering the device
  • Moving the wheels
  • 4 Sources and conclusions

Team had fun assembling the kit and working with Nerves. It was easier than we expected, and we found that Nerves is a very stable and solid frame- work for deploying Elixir applications in restrained environments without friction. Good read!

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How to build interactive pie charts using only CSS and HTML

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Looking for an easy guide on how to make a pie chart with CSS and HTML? Then you’ve come to the right place! By Hafsah Emekoma.

Pie charts have been used since forever to display data in an aesthetically pleasing manner; they help in analyzing data by showing how different segments of a larger data set break down.

In the article you will get information on how to build an interactive pie chart using only HTML and CSS that displays data about food consumption in a city:

  • Basic HTML structure
  • Creating the wrappers
  • Basic styles
  • Adding pie chart data
  • Styling the chart and its keys
  • Finish styling the pie chart
  • Adding interactivity to the pie chart
  • Adding the keys and colors
  • Displaying text for entries
  • Changing the border colors for flair

If you’ve finished this tutorial, you should now be able to build pie charts using only HTML and CSS. Building with just HTML and CSS can come in handy when building light projects where performance is a primary consideration. Nice one!

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Low-code backend for startups

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This post will reveal author’s experience of working in multiple startups. The views are completely driven based upon his personal experience and can be found biased. By Navneet Maheshwari.

Author realizes in recent times and strongly believe that the startups for whom tech is not the primary product should not get into building platforms from scratch at an early stage of their journey. There are multiple reasons for this including volatile business model which keeps on reiterating and evolving, the talent acquisition cost for the tech team that is very high, there will be a very high business learning quotient for developers, leading to a lot of communication, it takes a lot of time to build stable tech etc.

With the recent development in the Low code space, I feel startups should focus on building tech with these platforms before jumping on building a complete in-house stack. With the recent development in the Low code space, author feels startups should focus on building tech with these platforms before jumping on building a complete in-house stack.

There arises a plethora of platforms that can help you build any software without much need for engineering bandwidth. The Low-code/ No-code platform can be classified into the following segments:

  • Frontend: (Website Builder, E-comm, Landing Page builder, etc). Some of them are Shopify, Webflow, WordPress, Wix, etc.
  • Mobile App: (App Builder). Appsheet, Glide, Shopney, etc.
  • Backend: Builder.io, Bubble, ERPNext

Author worked in 3 startups so far and there are is one thing that is common; Building Tech products is difficult: It’s not just simply coding and delivering a project. It’s a continuous reiterative process. Good read!

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How we rebuilt React DevTools with replay routines

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At Replay, we’re building a true time-travel debugger for JavaScript. Our technology records everything that happens in a browser, so you can use it to debug any page regardless of what frameworks or libraries were used to build it. That said, framework-specific devtools are a valuable part of the debugging experience. By Mark Erikson.

Replay’s recording capability is built into our custom forks of the Firefox and Chrome browsers and Node runtime. Firefox has been our primary recording browser thus far, but in Q4 2022 we started improving the Chrome fork to reach feature parity with Firefox. One of the missing features in Chrome was React DevTools support.

The article then describes in depth:

  • Background
  • How do the React DevTools work?
  • Replay’s React DevTools support in Firefox
  • Replay’s recording analysis APIs
  • Using “Routines” for recording analysis
  • Browser integration, stubs, and annotation timestamps
  • Writing annotations for processing recordings
  • Evaluating code in recording pauses
  • React DevTools routine implementation
  • React DevTools client-side implementation
  • Deployment

… and more. The React DevTools backend was only designed to run in a real browser, and author pretty sure our protocol API wasn’t designed with “evaluate entire JS bundles” in mind. Happily, both were designed well enough that something like this was possible. Along the way, author learned a lot about our backend protocol API, how pauses work, evaluating JS as strings, and doing development + deployment on our backend repo. Godo read!

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NIST cybersecurity framework compliance with Sepio

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The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF) is a voluntary framework developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to help organizations manage cybersecurity risk. It was created via an executive order from President Obama in 2013 to improve cybersecurity within critical infrastructure. By Julien Katzenmaier.

It provides a risk-based approach to identify, assess, and prioritize risk, and to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to reduce it. It is composed of five core functions—Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover—and ties into other NIST standards, guidelines, and best practices. The framework provides organizations with a flexible, repeatable, and cost-effective approach to managing their cybersecurity risks.

However, for organizations to meet NIST cybersecurity framework compliance, they must adopt a holistic approach toward cybersecurity, ranging from various practices, policies, and tools. Consult the article for table which shows how Sepio’s Asset Risk Management solution can help your organization align with NIST cybersecurity framework compliance so that you can manage risk properly and effortlessly. Good read!

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Experiment: The hidden costs of waiting on slow build times

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How much does it really cost to buy more powerful cloud compute resources for development work? A lot less than you think. By Natalie Somersall.

The cost of hardware is one of the most common objections to providing more powerful computing resources to development teams—and that’s regardless of whether you’re talking about physical hardware in racks, managed cloud providers, or a software-as-a-service based (SaaS) compute resource. Paying for compute resources is an easy cost to “feel” as a business, especially if it’s a recurring operating expense for a managed cloud provider or SaaS solution.

The article details:

  • Testing build times vs. cost by core size on compute resources
  • How much slow build times cost companies
  • How much context switching costs companies

When you ask a developer whether they’d prefer more or less powerful hardware, the answer is almost always the same: they want more powerful hardware. It’s cheaper—and less frustrating for your developers—to pay more for better hardware to keep your team on track.

In this case, spending an extra $4-5 on build compute saves about $40 per build for an individual developer, or a little over $200 per build for a team of five, and the frustration of switching tasks with a productivity cost of about an hour. That’s not nothing. Of course, spending that extra $4-5 at scale can quickly compound—but so can the cost of sunk productivity. Interesting read!

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