virtuallynathan

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   by virtuallynathan 10y ago

   33C3 -- The Chaos Computer Club's yearly conference: https://media.ccc.de/b/congress/2016
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   by virtuallynathan 10y ago

   >Network: i'm not a neteng, don't listen to me, but obviously it should be managed with nice fat switching fabric bandwidth, good forwarding rate and big uplink module support. 48-port switches don't always have the same b
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   by virtuallynathan 10y ago

   I think it does -- "Price cuts apply across all AWS Regions." The regions listed were just examples. Check back Dec 1.
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   by virtuallynathan 10y ago

   It should now: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/10/amazon-ro... ns-1887.awsdns-43.co.uk. 60 IN AAAA 2600:9000:5307:5f00::1
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   by virtuallynathan 10y ago

   Which one?
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   by virtuallynathan 10y ago

   Comcast? or Charter/TWC?
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   by virtuallynathan 10y ago

   The latencies to various locations are listed in the blog post -- us-east-1 to us-east-2 is < 12ms.
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   by virtuallynathan 10y ago

   This cable is most likely for diversification for paths to Asia. There are 11 cables that land in HK, Google is a consortium member on one of them (SJC).
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   by virtuallynathan 10y ago

   What makes you say that? "The Peering Links" is way to generic to be useful - hundreds of companies and networks operate "peering" (or transit, or transport) links between the US and Asia. To name a few: Google, Facebook
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    The CEO is an Ex-telecoms guy, and you don't actually have to know how to do much. Most of the legwork is done by the submarine cable systems company you hire, in this case TE Subcom. Mostly it's just a funding entity. Also, this
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    To add clarification: FASTER is a 6-fiber pair system, with 10Tbps (Half Duplex) across each individual fiber (I.e. 10Tbps tx on one fiber and 10Tbps rx on the other) MAREA is an 8-fiber pair system with 20Tbps (Half Duplex) across each ind
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    Oddly (or perhaps not), this does not include news from Google Cloud.
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    They don't want to work, but they do. I have no issue with my GTX1070 after a few minutes after playing with some KVM settings.
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    VT-d = Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O which basically means the CPU has an IOMMU, the IOMMU is a piece of hardware for doing PCIe DMA re-mapping to provide VM isolation. VFIO is the linux driver for passing through IOMMU de
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    There's a ton of guides, I found it useful to read a bunch of them and mentally prepare for the kind of stuff I should be doing.
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    SLI is hard/maybe impossible with GPU pass-through. Let me know if you get it to work!
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    I run Fedora 24 with no GUI, so I only have the one GPU. Technically my motherboard has a crappy GPU I could use.
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    See my comment below... it's not too far out of reach. You need: - Transit (500Mbps on a 10G port can be had for ~$300/mo in major DCs) - a /24 or larger IPv4 prefix (Can be free/cheap from your transit provider) or buy
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    At least in the US/EU there is no such thing as a "carrier license". You simply register with an RIR, Pay to "lease" an AS number, request (or buy/transfer) address space. Once you've done that, buy transi
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    They started selling them off: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32826353
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    I do this, works great. Get >95% of native perf out of my GTX1070.
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    There is a limit to the amount of power that can be pushed through the cable on each end, and each strand of fiber needs a number of Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, which consume a lot of power. This isn't a problem on land, as you can
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    Google, FB, and MSFT all essentially migrate huge parts of the internet between continents (Google Search Index, Gmail Inboxes, YouTube Videos, Bing Search Index, Outlook Inbox, Facebook Profiles, Photos, Videos, etc). This is a ton of data
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    DWDM on commercial equipment is up to >24Tbps per fiber, long haul is about 8-12Tbps (trans-oceanic). I haven't looked into the details yet, but earlier this year Nokia announced a system that can do 70Tbps per fiber. New Sub-sea bu
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    I'm not saying it isn't possible to ever hit 1Gbps (or whatever speed), I'm simply saying it is not in Netflix's best interests to make sure this is possible 24/7 365. I have 1Gbps CondoInternet/WaveG at home,
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    This is a bit of an unfair test, as it is not in Netflix's best interest to provision enough CDN capacity for any user to hit 1Gbps, especially at peak times. Netflix wants to buy/provision just enough capacity so that users don&#
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    I have 2 of them running in the closet next to my bed, can barely hear it if I'm not maxing out the CPU. At max fan speed, sure, it's pretty darn loud. One could do better with a large case and larger, quieter fans.
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c600/x9d... for up to E5-2600v2 (this is the one I have), and someting like: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    TDP aside, you can get a used E5-2670v1 (8c/16t) @ 2.6Ghz for $60... The low-power "L" model Xeon's are also available.
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    by virtuallynathan 10y ago

    Go nuts: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-128GB-16x-8GB-RAM-2RX4-PC3L-... It was actually on sale for $237.50 when I bought it.