Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:00:00 +0000
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re learning all about Arm servers on Google Cloud Platform this week. Hosts</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/briandorsey"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brian Dorsey</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/stephr_wong"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stephanie Wong</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">welcome fellow Googlers</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/jonmasters"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jon Masters</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/Yuryu"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Emma Haruka Iwao</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">to talk about the newest VMs on GCP.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To start, our guests dive in to Arm, explaining what it is and how it’s grown over the years. Nowadays, Arm-based chips dominate the mobile market and this volume has allowed them to build both advanced chips for supercomputers and beneficial partnerships. Emma explains how having the Arm architecture available in the cloud helps keep projects efficient and walks us through example setups of an Arm projects, illustrating the ease of setup in Google Cloud. Jon and Emma talk about the T2A VMs running Arm workloads at Google, including their balance of performance and cost.</span></p> <p>Emma and Jon bust some myths about Arm, emphasizing how performant it is despite its humble beginnings.</p> <h5><strong>Jon Masters</strong></h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/jonmasters"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jon Masters</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is a compute architect focused on Arm server architecture, platform standards, and ecosystem with almost a dozen years of experience working on Arm.</span></p> <h5><strong>Emma Haruka Iwao</strong></h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/Yuryu"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Emma Haruka Iwao</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is a DevRel engineer focused on Compute products and a computer architecture enthusiast.</span></p> <h5><strong>Cool things of the week</strong></h5> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Introducing Batch, a new managed service for scheduling batch jobs at any scale</span> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/new-batch-service-processes-batch-jobs-on-google-cloud"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">blog</span></a></li> <li style="display: inline;"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Examples of Batch for Transcoding</span> <a href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/batch-samples/tree/main/transcoding"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">site</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Using Google Kubernetes Engine’s GPU sharing to search for neutrinos</span> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-gpu-sharing-helps-scientists-quest-for-neutrinos"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">blog</span></a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h5><strong>Interview</strong></h5> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Arm</span> <a href="https://www.arm.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">site</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Arm Documentation</span> <a href="https://developer.arm.com/documentation"><span style="font-weight: 400;">docs</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Arm VMs on Computer</span> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/arm-on-compute"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> docs</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Expanding the Tau VM family with Arm-based processors</span> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/tau-t2a-is-first-compute-engine-vm-on-an-arm-chip"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">blog</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Run your Arm workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine with Tau T2A VMs</span> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-supports-new-arm-based-tau-t2a-vms"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">blog</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Compute Engine</span> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute"><span style="font-weight: 400;">site</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GKE</span> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine"><span style="font-weight: 400;">site</span></a></li> </ul> <h5><strong>What’s something cool you’re working on?</strong></h5> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brian is switching his focus from VMs to developer tooling.</span></p> <h5><strong>Hosts</strong></h5> <p>Stephanie Wong and Brian Dorsey</p>