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By: Marco Varlese

April 3, 2023 2:14 pm

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SUSE’s Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) Raises the Bar on Confidential Computing

SUSE has just released the third prototype of ALP, named “Piz Bernina” (the highest mountain in the Swiss Alps).  The new prototype has a strong focus on security and demonstrates an innovative concept with confidential computing and a zero-trust approach.  ALP stands for SUSE’s Adaptable Linux Platform, providing a new approach […]

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By: Marco Varlese

March 18, 2021 1:30 pm

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Phoeβe, where AI meets Linux

Phoeβe (/ˈfiːbi/) wants to add basic artificial intelligence capabilities to the Linux OS. System-level tuning is a very complex activity, requiring the knowledge and expertise of several, if not all, layers which compose the system itself and how they interact with each other. Quite often, it is required to also have an intimate knowledge […]

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By: Marco Varlese

March 25, 2020 10:44 am

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Containers building with the Open Build Service

If you are interested in containers building, maintenance and publishing then this video tutorial might be for you. It depicts the journey of a developer using the Open Build Service [1] to create and publish a container based solution using KIWI [2]. I hope you can enjoy the video and I look forward to any […]

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By: Marco Varlese

March 20, 2020 4:02 pm

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Artificial Intelligence: do it with SUSE!

This is a follow-up post after the first one posted two weeks ago. With Tensorflow 2.1 finally landing in Package Hub [1], SUSE offers a wide variety of tools and frameworks on their both free and commercial products. In the past week, we updated the v1 API of Tensorflow to its latest stable release […]

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By: Marco Varlese

March 3, 2020 2:12 pm

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Machine Learning with openSUSE

Packages, containers and more! In the past few weeks, many engineers have been working hard to create a foundation in Tumbleweed, the openSUSE rolling-release version, for a variety of Machine Learning frameworks and tools. They span from Tensorflow 1.13.2 to ONNX 1.6, Caffe, Theano and RStudio (both desktop and server editions). […]

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By: Marco Varlese

August 7, 2018 7:27 am

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Accelerate your network with OvS-DPDK

Introduction First of all, to set some expectations to you, this blog-post does not focus on what DPDK or OpenVSwitch (OvS) are but it tries to provide the information required to have them running on a SUSE distribution. If you require detailed information about DPDK or OvS design, architecture, internals or API then please refer […]

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By: Marco Varlese

October 31, 2017 5:56 am

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Vector Packet Processing (VPP) on openSUSE

Introduction The latest stable release (v17.10) of the Vector Packet Processing (VPP) framework (https://fd.io/technology/) is available as a package for the Tumbleweed release of openSUSE. Leap 42.3 is also fully supported by the FD.io/VPP production environment upstream, with gating rights (Verified) on new patch submission. If you are running Leap 42.[…]

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