Posts in 2023
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Nurturing Sustainability: Raising Power Consumption Awareness
Tuesday, September 05, 2023 in News
Supervisors: Diana Gaponcic, Ricardo Rocha With modern society relying more and more on digital services this has led to an explosive growth in data centers and cloud-based applications. This growth comes at a cost – data centers are power-hungry and …
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Efficient Access to Shared GPU Resources: Part 6
Tuesday, August 22, 2023 in News
As the sixth blog post in our series, we are bringing a story about training a high energy physics (HEP) neural network using NVIDIA A100 GPUs using Kubeflow training operators. We will go over our methodology and analyze the impact of various …
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Efficient Access to Shared GPU Resources: Part 5
Tuesday, July 04, 2023 in News
This is part 5 of a series of blog posts about GPU concurrency mechanisms. In part 1 we focused on the pros and cons of different solutions available on Kubernetes, in part 2 we dove into the setup and configuration details, in part 3 we analyzed …
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Efficient Access to Shared GPU Resources: Part 4
Thursday, April 27, 2023 in News
This is part 4 of a series of blog posts about GPU concurrency mechanisms. In part 1 we focused on the pros and cons of different solutions available on Kubernetes, in part 2 we dove into the setup and configuration details, and in part 3 we …
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Propagating OAuth2 tokens made easier
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 in News
We are thrilled to announce the release of oauth2-refresh-controller v1.0.1 component. Modifying deployments to include OAuth2 secrets is now thing of the past. Inject and refresh tokens automatically with the oauth2-refresh-controller. What is …
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Efficient Access to Shared GPU Resources: Part 3
Monday, March 20, 2023 in News
This is part 3 of a series of blog posts about GPU concurrency mechanisms. In part 1 we focused on the pros and cons of different solutions available on Kubernetes, and in part 2 we dove into the setup and configuration details. This series focuses …
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Efficient Access to Shared GPU Resources: Part 2
Friday, March 17, 2023 in News
This is part 2 of a series of blogposts about GPU concurrency mechanisms. In part 1 we focused on pros and cons and use cases for the different technology solutions available on Kubernetes. This series focuses on NVIDIA cards, although similar …
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Efficient Access to Shared GPU Resources: Part 1
Monday, January 09, 2023 in News
GPUs are shaping the way organizations access and use their data and CERN is not an exception. Traditional High Energy Physics (HEP) analysis and deployments are being rethought and accelerators remain the key to enabling efficient Machine Learning …
Posts in 2022
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Announcing CVMFS CSI v2
Wednesday, November 02, 2022 in News
We are glad to announce the release of cvmfs-csi v2.0.0 bringing several cool features and making access to CVMFS repositories inside Kubernetes a lot easier. This is a large overhaul of the first version of the driver, see below for some history and …
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A Summer of Testing and Chaos
Friday, July 08, 2022 in News
After two years of an imposed remote only version, CERN welcomed again a large number of newcomers for the summer student and openlab summer programs. This time two of them will be working in our Kubernetes service team. They’ll be jumping in …