I guess TSMC isn't based in the US in any meaningful way.
Good for them.
You'd think the ROC/PRC situation might make them cautious about wandering into the middle of a US/PRC pissing match though.
Readit Newssubway commented on TSMC to Keep Supplying Chips to Huawei eetimes.com/document.asp?... · Posted by u/baybal2
If by 'part of your infrastructure' you mean a single API that emits geo coordinates based on client address, then yes.
That's dangerous thinking. Any un-patched service can turn into a pivot point. If the same folks who managed more critical pieces of infrastructure log in there, it can almost certainly be used to pivot onto their other systems.
Is live kernel patching not commonly used these days?
Not really. It's technically possible with Ksplice, but almost no distro actually supports it.
Beyond the kernel, you have various libs and binaries that will be replaced during upgrades. All can usually/mostly be restarted without a reboot, but just upgrading packages alone won't guarantee all running processes have been updated.
This makes me sad, but not completely unexpected. I worked on Antergos a while early on and had a lot of fun. That said, at least 2 of the core devs went more or less MIA for months at a time as they got busy with life, counting myself. My hats off to the team but specifically Gustau and Dustin, who trudged along the entire journey through the years. Seriously great developers to work with.
As an aside, I just checked the geolocation server I'd setup for the installer.
03:14:51 up 1357 days, 3:43, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
It's been up 4 years continuously on a Scaleway ARM box. I can't recommend them enough for such projects.
Does that mean part of your infrastructure saw no kernel patches in 4 years?
OS uptime gave me pride in the 90s. Today it's usually a bad sign.
subway commented on Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray reuters.com/article/us-cr... · Posted by u/jeremiahlee
HPE bought Cray, not HP
And this isnt really the original Cray. Its someone who bought Cray and started using their name (although they kept the original location open.) So there is precedent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tera_Computer_Company
And before Tera, SGI bought Cray in 1995.
subway commented on Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray reuters.com/article/us-cr... · Posted by u/jeremiahlee
My rule of thumb for buying laptops (since the mid 2000s) has been that compaq is the bottom-rung cheap brand that should always be avoided. Not sure their survival has been a good thing.
The consumer gear was trash. The server lines were an entirely different story. Also worth noting that by the mid 2000s, Compaq was just a branding on the consumer side. The hardware was all the same old HP consumer junk.
subway commented on Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray reuters.com/article/us-cr... · Posted by u/jeremiahlee
Selling what to Lenovo? Thinkpad? That's hardly a supercomputer.
I'm not aware of any supercomputers built by Lenovo. IBM has built a lot.
Try again: https://www.top500.org/system/179566
There are plenty of System X HPC installs. They just no longer come from IBM. Even when IBM still owned the line, it was being outsourced. The University of California SRCS system from ~10 years ago was an iDataPlex sold to us by IBM. Most of the boards had Asus marked on them.
Also remember the System X line was sold way after the Think lines.
subway commented on Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray reuters.com/article/us-cr... · Posted by u/jeremiahlee
subway commented on Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray reuters.com/article/us-cr... · Posted by u/jeremiahlee
subway commented on Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray reuters.com/article/us-cr... · Posted by u/jeremiahlee
Maybe HP is just like Microsoft - terrible at naming things. How many names has TRIM had over the years?
HP isn't one company. They are two completely separate companies that share part of their name.