Comments on: Why Nvidia Should Acquire SUSE https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/18/why-nvidia-should-acquire-suse/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 24 Mar 2022 15:24:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/18/why-nvidia-should-acquire-suse/#comment-183873 Tue, 22 Mar 2022 13:29:02 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140245#comment-183873 In reply to John.

Why be such a grump? Why not see the distinction I was making between a traditional operating system that schedules things to run on a processor and its peripherals and an operating system that schedules application software comprised of microservices interlinked into pods?

Why? Seems like a better question to me, as if after more than three decades writing about infrastructure I am some kind of freaking newbie.

Why indeed.

Go take a walk and get some sunshine on your face and come back in a better mood.

]]> By: John https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/18/why-nvidia-should-acquire-suse/#comment-183847 Tue, 22 Mar 2022 08:53:37 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140245#comment-183847 “Well, a low-level operating system – which of course has to be Linux – to interface between its systems software and the iron, and a high-level operating system – which probably means Kubernetes, but Docker and Hashi Stack are also options”

A low-level operating system? What the hell even is a low-level OS? SLE isn’t it, that’s for sure.

Kubernetes/Docker/Hashi Stack high-level OS? Those aren’t even OSs and Kubernetes vs Docker isn’t really comparable. K8s is a whole platform for running containers, Docker is just a container runtime which can be used by K8s to run the containers.

Why even write this if you have no idea?

]]> By: Eric Olson https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/18/why-nvidia-should-acquire-suse/#comment-183508 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 17:26:20 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140245#comment-183508 I don’t know how many and what customer support contracts Suse Enterprise Linux has, but as mentioned in the article such an acquisition has to be more about the people and the contracts than the bits. This is even more true with Linux where a surprisingly good
distribution can be put together by a small team. Void Linux stands out as an example.

Rather than buying Suse, a cooperative agreement with IBM over RedHat makes more sense to me–especially given the former Power9 NVlink GPU partnership.

Moreover, now that the ARM acquisition has been sunk by people concerned (among other things) by the proprietary way Nvidia segmented the GPU market into gamers, miners, AI and technical computing, it would also be exciting to see Power10 in Nvidia’s systems architecture options for HPC. However, that’s a different story altogether.

]]> By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/18/why-nvidia-should-acquire-suse/#comment-183496 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 15:46:03 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140245#comment-183496 In reply to KGodzWrath.

But of course!

]]> By: KGodzWrath https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/18/why-nvidia-should-acquire-suse/#comment-183399 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 01:54:19 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140245#comment-183399 Que the Obligatory Linus Torvalds Full Bird Salute!

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