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OTTAWA, Ontario, Oct. 26, 2021 Rockport Networks today announces the commercial availability of its new switchless network architecture that delivers industry-leading performance and scalability necessary for performance-intensive computing workloads including HPC, AI and ML. Addressing the longstanding data center chokepoints that are throttling innovation, the Rockport Switchless Networkoffers a completely new design, using breakthrough software and data-routing techniques to overcome congestion, delivering predictable performance improvements of more than 3X that of centralized switch-intensive networks.

The Rockport Switchless Network distributes the network switching function to endpoint devices, where these devices (nodes) become the network. By eliminating layers of switches, the Rockport Switchless Network also significantly frees up rack space to be better used by compute and storage, as well as creating savings in associated power, cooling, and administrative overhead. No longer are compute and storage resources starving for data, and researchers have more predictability regarding workload completion time.

Rockport was founded based on the fact that switching, and networking in general, is extremely complicated. Over the years, this complexity has forced organizations to make tradeoffs when it comes to performance at scale, so we decided to make it simpler, said Doug Carwardine, CEO and co-founder, Rockport Networks. We made it our mission to get data from a source to a destination faster than other technologies. Removing the switch was crucial to achieve significant performance advantages in an environmentally and commercially sustainable way.

Rethinking network switches creates an opportunity to leverage direct interconnect topologies that provide a connectivity mesh in which every network endpoint can efficiently forward traffic to every other endpoint. The Rockport Switchless Network is a distributed, highly reliable, high-performance interconnect providing pre-wired supercomputer topologies through a standard plug-and-play Ethernet interface.

TheRockportNetwork Operating System (rNOS)is software at the core of the Rockport Switchless Network and runs on the Network Card, fully offloaded from the compute cores and server operating system. The rNOS enables the network to self-discover, self-configure and self-heal. Like a navigation app for data, this patented approach selects and continually optimizes the best path through the network to minimize congestion and latency, while breaking down packets into smaller pieces (FLITs) to ensure high-priority messages are not blocked by large messages or bulk data transfers. Designed to integrate easily into existing and emerging data centers, the Rockport Switchless Network installs in a fraction of the time required to cable traditional switch-based networks. As an embeddable architecture, it will work in any form factor. Today the software is deployed and managed using three main components:

Rockports technology delivers significant TCO, sustainability and security benefits including:

When the root of the problem is the architecture, building a better switch just didnt make sense, said Matt Williams, CTO, Rockport Networks. With sophisticated algorithms and other purpose-built software breakthroughs, we have solved for congestion, so our customers no longer need to just throw bandwidth at their networking issues. Weve focused on real-world performance requirements to set a new standard for what the market should expect for the fabrics of the future.

After an extensive beta program for cloud service providers and elite government and academic research labs, the Rockport Switchless Network is being deployed by customers including theUniversity ofTexas Advanced Computing Center (TACC).The company is also working with industry organizations includingOhio State University (OSU)to contribute to performance-intensive networking standards.

TACC Establishes New Center of Excellence with Rockport Networks

As part of todays news, Rockport Networks is announcing a collaboration with TACC to create a Center of Excellence in Austin, Texas. TACC houses Frontera, the fastest supercomputer on a university campus and the 10thmost powerful supercomputer in the world. TACC has installed 396 nodes on Frontera running production workloads on Rockports switchless network including quantum computing, pandemic-related life sciences research as well as workloads focused on rapid responses to emergencies like hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, and other large-scale disasters.

TACC is very pleased to be a Rockport Center of Excellence. We run diverse advanced computing workloads which rely on high-bandwidth, low-latency communication to sustain performance at scale. Were excited to work with innovative new technology like Rockports switchless network design, stated Dr. Dan Stanzione, director of TACC and associate vice president for research at UT-Austin. Our team is seeing promising initial results in terms of congestion and latency control. Weve been impressed by the simplicity of installation and management. We look forward to continuing to test on new and larger workloads and expanding the Rockport Switchless Network further into our data center.

Industry Validation

The team at Durham continues to push the bounds when it comes to uncovering next-generation HPC network technologies, said Alastair Basden, DiRAC/Durham University, technical manager of COSMA HPC Cluster. Based on a 6D torus, we found the Rockport Switchless Network to be remarkably easy to setup and install. We looked at codes that rely on point-to-point communications between all nodes with varying packet sizes where typically congestion can reduce performance on traditional networks. We were able to achieve consistent low latency under load and look forward to seeing the impact this will have on even larger-scale cosmology simulations.

Theres been significant evidence that would suggest that switchless architectures have the capacity to significantly up level application performance that traditionally has come at great cost, stated Earl C. Joseph, CEO, Hyperion Research. Making these advances more economically accessible should greatly benefit the global research community and hopefully improve expectations relative to what we can expect from the network when it comes to return-on-research and time-to-results.

Our mission is to provide the advanced computing community with standard libraries such as MVAPICH2 that support the very best possible performance available in the market. We make it a top priority to keep our libraries fresh with innovative approaches, like Rockport Networks new switchless architecture, said DK Panda, professor and distinguished scholar of computer science at the Ohio State University, and lead for the Network-Based Computing Research Group. We look forward to our ongoing partnership with Rockport to define new standards for our upcoming releases.

Availability and Additional Information

The Rockport Switchless Network is available immediately.

For additional information including full product details, please visit:https://rockportnetworks.com.

Rockport Networks Launch Activities

Following the launch of the Rockport Switchless Network, the company will participate in a number of industry events including:

Virtual Roundtable with HPCwire November 10: Rockport joins Dell, TACC, OSU and Hyperion Research for a virtual discussion: Quieting Noisy Neighbors: Keys to Addressing Congestion in Multi-workload Environments.Register here.

Rockport Networks at SC21 November 14-19: Rockport is a sponsor of the SC21 Virtual Exhibit. Rockport experts will be available to answer questions in the virtual exhibit hall and Rockport CTO Matthew Williams will present: Advanced congestion control for addressing network performance bottlenecks using a next generation interconnect, with a live Q&A. Learn more at http://www.rockportnetworks.com/sc21.

About Rockport Networks

Rockport Networks next-generation of high-performance networks unlocks the entire data center to produce more results, faster, and with better economics and environmental sustainability. Modeled after the worlds fastest supercomputers, the Rockport Switchless Network replaces centralized switch architectures with a distributed, high-performance direct interconnect that is self-discovering, self-configuring and self-healing, and that is simple and transparent to operate. By virtually eliminating congestion and latency, data center workloads can be completed significantly faster, enabling organizations to improve ROI and make critical decisions more quickly. Learn more atwww.rockportnetworks.com.

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Beating someone at a game of chess is not real intelligence, says the storied Co-founder of Apple Computers, Steve Wozniak. Credited with designing the first among personal computers and bringing out Apple I and Apple II, Wozniak is a firm believer in intuition and feelings which have no match to Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The technology entrepreneur and philanthropist who left Apple in 1985 continues to pursue new projects. He co-founded post-secondary education and training platform for software engineering and technology development Woz U in 2017, and more recently, blockchain-based energy-saving platform, Efforce.

Speaking excitedly about a new idea to look at mapping space debris in the near-earth magnetic field, Wozniak says that there are a number of emerging technology solutions that he would have liked to work with if he were born in the 2000s.

He added that Internet-of-Things, especially in a home environment, robotics, building processors, sensors and semiconductors out of different materials, quantum computing and battery technology are some of the other technology challenges which inspire him.

My whole life I have been thinking about comparing computers to the brain if there is a way to build an electric brain.., says Wozniak.

Wozniak also cheekily reminds us that the human brain was faster than the computer when it started out.

Bringing us back to the message, that while a Google image search can identify a dog breed in seconds but does it really know what a dog is?

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Unemployment in September for Illinois fell just a couple of points from 7% to 6.8% so that means there are still plenty of people looking for work.

If you aresearching for a job or in school preparing to join the workforce what fieldshould you consider?

That said, I decided to look into the jobs that pay the most in Illinois since, after all, we live in the Land of Lincoln.

Based on research from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, it definitely pays to be in Illinois' health care field.

That doesn't mean there are other opportunities, because two of the top 25 are in the airline industry.

The truth is though, most of the people in the highest paid jobs on this list usually don't fall into them.

In order to land one of these gigs, you're more than likely going to have to attend some sort of secondary schooling, whether it be med school, law school or even getting your pilot's license. Long story short, these jobs pay well, but the cost just to obtain the degree or certificate to work in that field could be a massive financial burden.

So how does it happen? No one knows for sure. Certainly having the smarts, and drive to get the diploma and the job are a good start but sometimes it boils down to family and money.

Either way, if you're unhappy with your current profession, change your career, get your degree, andland one of Illinois' highest-paid jobs.

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Former President Bill Clinton and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were spotted sporting long pants and long faces while strolling on a Hamptons beach this week.

The sullen-seeming couple was covered up as they walked on the sand in sunny Amagansett on Tuesday, with Bill wearing a black T-shirt, jeans and a baseball cap and Hillary dressed in baggy blue pants, a long-sleeved top and hat.

The seaside stroll took place shortly before the release on Sept. 7 of the FX limited series Impeachment: AmericanCrime Story, chronicling the former presidents sex scandal involving then-White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Executive producer Brad Simpson recently told Deadline he doesnt think the former first couple will watch the show.

No one, as far as we know, from the Clinton camp has seen this series, Simpson said. Of course, Im curious what they would think.

Simpson added of Hillary, I dont imagine she will watch, no matter how emphatic we are to her.

The Clintons were in the Hamptons celebrating Bills milestone 75th birthday, according to reports.

On Saturday, he umpired several innings of an Artist and Writers Charity Softball game in East Hampton.

Other big-name politicians have been seen around the Hamptons in recent days, with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul having attended an event in Southampton last weekend, days before she took her oath to replace Andrew Cuomo.

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The seventh episode of Impeachment: American Crime Story reveals a character it was probably difficult to imagine taking a back seat when the series first began: Hillary Clinton. Played by four-time Emmy winner Edie Falco, the then-first lady is seen only in brief glimpses in the first half of the season, as the affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinskyand its aftermathtakes focus. But in the seventh episode, titled The Assassination of Monica Lewinsky, the story breaks in the press. In one striking scene, Bill Clinton wakes up his wife and tells her what he claims is the truththat he and Lewinsky never had an affair at all.

On this weeks episode of the Still Watching podcast, Falco tells Richard Lawson about her approach to playing one of the most famous women on the planet, and why her performance is a possible interpretation of what could have been happening in Hillary Clintons mind in those tumultuous early days of 1998.

Listen to the episode above, and find a partial transcript of the Falco interview below. You can subscribe to Still Watching on Apple Podcasts or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

Richard Lawson: Theres a lot to talk about but were starting a lot of these interviews asking people what they remember from that time. Were you someone who paid a lot of attention to this whole story?

Edie Falco:I did not, actually. Had I been, then, who I am now I would havein so far as being a bit of a political junkie. But I was less so, at the time. So, I was aware of it. It was in the air but I was not fully cognizant of it, no.

Which, I guess, would make it interesting to delve into the world of this show. Im curious about when this opportunity presented itself. What were your reasons for wanting to be part of this and play this role specifically?

Lets see. Quite some time before I did it, more than a year, it was mentioned to me that Ryan Murphy was interested in using me and I didnt know what that meant. There were a lot of things floating around at the time and then, they said, he wanted to speak with me. We spoke on the phone and at that point, I realized I am actually considering playing Hillary Clinton. I wonder if I gave that enough thought, frankly, but of course, its daunting for anybody but also because I am someone who respects her so much and cannot imagine the pressure of just being who she is in the public eye. I guess I stepped in it a little, not really knowing when or if it would happen. There were a lot of questions in the air. At a certain point when I was going to fittings, I realized, holy crap, I really am doing this.

Now, youve played real people before but maybe none quite as well known as Hillary Clinton. Are you someone who does a lot of research, are you watching videos to get speech patterns right? How is your approach to playing someone who weve all heard speak and maybe seen in person many times?

Right. The truth is, I have played a lot of real people. This is, of course, the highest profile real person Ive ever played but the truth is, I would way prefer not to play a real person. Its not something I enjoy as much because in a perfect world, were telling a story not necessarily a story that people know with people that people know. So, they come in with some preconceptions as to what the story will be like and what the people will look and sound like. I prefer to start the whole thing with a blank slate. You dont know these people and you dont know the story and so, I can create all of it out of my imagination. So, given all of that, I agreed to do this job but Hillary Clinton, in particular, is someone who has been imitated and impersonated on every platform by every person who does such things.

So, without giving it a ton of intellectual thought, I definitely didnt want to do that. I didnt want to be another person they could put on a reel of all the people who have played Hillary Clinton. So, I was way more interested in just telling the story from the point of view of a woman, intelligent, thoughtful, married to the president and what the story was like for her.

So, Hillary Clinton has been in my world, in all of our worlds, for many, many years and you cant help it. Its like, knowing the words to a song you dont remember ever having heard before. You know what I mean? Its just always been there and thats a little bit of my feeling about Hillary Clinton. So, I dont know. I didnt really want to go in there and make sure I sounded and looked and walked just like her. Between the hair and makeup and clothing, these people, who worked on the show, were so diligent and well sourced and hardworking. I felt well covered. But it was more, for me, about portraying her interior life.

Are you trying to show us something different about her, or is it really interior?

No. No, no. This is not my interpretation of Hillary. It is my interpretation of the writers and producers interpretation. You know what I mean? I am not telling the story or pretending to have pieces of the story that the public doesnt have. Im just a cog in a very large wheel. I guess, part of it was that, as I have grown up in a culture that knows this story, I certainly have had to wonder like, Maybe... I imagine other people have wondered like, What was that like? What was the home life of these two people while all of this was going on? How did she make sense of her husband, her place in this marriage, her place as a person in the American public or in the world public. And everybody knows whats going on in her family. Well, I just wanted to know, what were those conversations like? My God. And the truth is, we still dont know but this is certainly a possible interpretation. What some of those conversations were like, what the feeling in the home was like, that kind of thing. I think, the main reason I was interested in doing this was, to allow a possibility for what that might have been like.

Im curious, particularly, in this scene, in this episode, where Bill has come to Hillary and told her, Heres the news. This is whats out. And then later, she makes a decision. Can you talk me through a little bit, what do you think the characters mindset is? Why does she make that pretty big choice?

Again, trying to imagine, treading water in a situation like this where he is running. Hes got the most important job in the world, arguably, and she is his wife, a big part of his support system. This is an agreement she made. Yes, she agreed to be married to this man but this is an agreement she made to the world, to the country. So, it felt a little bit to me like, she needs to put out fires, right now, and how to deal with the long game, is another story. Do the next right thing, is what it felt like. She was just a little bit like, whack-a-mole. Ill take care of this then, Ill do this and Im sure mixed into all of that is, some idea of, what will this mean for our political future? Mine and his, together, mine and his, separately but I think, a bigger part of it was just, how do I get through this moment?

You have this incredible scene partner in Clive Owen. So, Im curious about that working relationship was like and if youd known him previous to this project?

No. We just met on the first day of shooting and it was funny because he said to me, Luckily, nobody knows who these people are so, were okay. I was like, clearly hes having the same trepidation I did as we stepped into this very daunting task. He was so lovely, such a nice smart, talented, kind man who took the job very seriously, was professional but also not unapproachable because of that. He was just great. I really quite liked him. Obviously, we work in very different ways.

He lives in London and he is British. So, between his accent and not having grown up in this country, he had a lot more ground to cover but he was definitely going for a much more accurate, physical portrayal of Bill, and its something, in the beginning, that I was concerned about. And I was basically told that its okay. As long as we play the truth of the scene, everyone will know who everybody is. And, and I dont know. I actually dont know if theres a rule about these kinds of things. You must look and talk exactly like them but if there was a rule about it, I was never really told it. So, the fact that we came from different places, I hope were still able to tell the story of these two people that people know.

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