The Catalyst Compact Switch gives you the the flexibility of connecting and powering networking devices without running long Ethernet cables from the wiring closet. It is a small form factor switch that can be powered over Ethernet, and is silent, secure and resilient. Amongst other verticals, the compact switch has been very successful in diverse environments in retail, hospitality and enterprise. A new Lippis Report details how the compact switch extends the borderless network services to the furthest endpoints. Read More »
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This week was Cisco Live 2012 in San Diego and I had the pleasure of being able to present to our customers, clients and partners on the topic of FCoE. There’s probably quite a few blogs and tweets about product launches, announcements from all parts of the ecosystem. Any many of you, my readers probably sat in quite a few sessions and walked the World of Solutions. In this entry, I’m not going to talk about what I presented on, but I though I’d answer the question:
What is it like to present? What do you see while you’re up there?
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Tags: Cisco, ciscolive, humor, information, networkers, presentation, Presenter's View
The following is an abbreviated list of my favorite concepts and/or specific functions that never made the cut into an official version of the MPI specification:
- MPI_ESP(): The “do what I meant, not what my code says” function. The function is intended as a hint to the MPI implementation that the executing code is likely incorrect, and the implementation should do whatever it feels that the programmer really intended it to do.
- MPI_Encourage(): A watered-down version of MPI_Progress().
- MPI_Alltoalltoall(): Every process sends to every other process, and then, just to be sure, everyone sends to everyone else again. Good for benchmarks. Read More »
Tags: humor, mpi
