GPUs do more than move shapes on a gamer’s screen - they increasingly move self-driving cars and 5G packets, running on Kubernetes. Pramod Ramarao is a Product Manager at NVIDIA, and joins your hosts to talk about accelerators, containers, drivers, machine learning and more.

Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know:

• web: kubernetespodcast.com
• mail: [email protected]
• twitter: @kubernetespod

Chatter of the week

• Printer networking
  • HP JetDirect
  • USB Type B
  • The mess that is USB Type-C
  • The solution
• Adam wants software-defined faucets
  • Glowing LED faucet - where does the electricity come from?
  • Faucet, a SDN controller

News of the week

• Google Cloud launches Application Manager for GKE in Beta
• GKE Surge Upgrades GA
• GKE Node Locations GA
• Anthos Ready Storage qualification
• Kafka disaster recovery with Supertubes from Banzai Cloud
  • Episode 59, with Janos Matyas
• StackRox’s State of Container and Kubernetes Security report
• Cilium 1.7
  • Last week’s ode to eBPF, with Leonardo Di Donato
• Convox launches multi-cloud
• Pangolin, an experimental Kubernetes autoscaler by Damian Peckett
  • Damian’s Reddit post
  • Bang-bang control theory
  • Bang-bang chicken
• Dell/EMC rack-in-a-box
  • Jack-in-the-box
  • The Hooli Box
• Platform9 now distributed by Promark
  • But not Primark
  • Episode 88, with Madhura Maskasky
• GKE security updates & defense-in-depth strategies
• Best practices for enterprise multi-tenancy with GKE
• Andrew Allbright contributes to Minikube
• Kubernetes Contributor Summit schedule announced
• That discount code again again again: KCEUGKP15

Links from the interview

• NVIDIA
• Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
• Differences between CPU and GPU
• The math co-processor
• General-purpose computing on GPUs (commonly known as GPGPU)
• CUDA, with a C
  • NVIDIA CUDA Zone
  • CUDA C++
• OpenGL and Vulkan, with a K
• Kubernetes on NVIDIA GPUs
  • NVIDIA on Google Cloud Platform
• Device plugins for Kubernetes and scheduling GPUs
  • NVIDIA device plugin
  • Kubernetes on NVIDIA GPU documentation
• NDC Hub for drivers and containers
• NVIDIA EGX for Edge computing with Kubernetes
  • Pramod’s announcement blog
• Deep Learning Training vs Inferencing
• NVIDIA GPU operator
• Pramod Ramarao