Today, I wrote my first “Hello World” script using the freshly open-sourced version of TensorFlow with distributed GPU support. At the time of this writing, the binary releases of TensorFlow don’t come with the distributed GPU support therefore I had to build TensorFlow from sources. All the documentation to do this already exists but is a bit scattered on multiple websites. Here is a condensed version of the install process (on a Linux Ubuntu 14.04 platform).
Renaud Vilmart (Mines de Nancy) did an Engineering Internship at EURA NOVA from June to September. In the article, Renaud describes his experience as an intern.
As of each year since its foundation, EURA NOVA proposes Master thesis subjects and research internships, led in collaboration with academic institutions.
Today’s social environments are getting more interconnected and the business market is becoming increasingly open and competitive. Organisations require a better awareness of their state and an accurate prediction of their evolution. To cope with this surging demand, new models and tools need to be developed. In my opinion, graph models are of a crucial interest for addressing these challenges.
In the last year, we have worked with Benjamin Van Melle on implementing High Availability in RoQ, our proof-of-concept distributed pub-sub messaging system. As a consequence, we needed to expand our JUnit tests to cover individual component failure scenarios and prove they were handled as expected. This piece will show how we used Docker to achieve this.
Similar to the previous years EURA NOVA R&D has been supervising Master students either for their internship or for their Master Thesis during the 2013-1014 academic year. This year, 5 students have had the opportunity to work in the fields of Machine Learning, GPU compute, distributed processing, metabolic pathways and social graphs. This blog post summarizes their breakthroughs.
To fully leverage Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), companies must go further than setting up an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). This article describes the 3 main challenges lying behind SOA implementation : Governance, Service Lifecycle Management, & Profiling.
For meeting its strategic objectives, a company has to move from a situation A to a situation B. To achieve this move, it uses Projects as vehicles for performing Changes.
As you know, vehicles have specific purposes and therefore different sizes, styles, performance, costs, lifespan and sometimes also priorities.
As you also know, vehicles sometimes don’t arrive in destination B as initially foreseen: some may get out of fuel, others may use unexpected directions, or take more time than planned for arriving to destination. In worst cases, they may get damaged or even collide each others.
Let’s see how Projects Portfolio Management can select the right mix of vehicles, control them and increase success for vehicles to arrive all at the desired place, time & cost and without bad surprises.
The Chief Data officer Summit was held in San Francisco on May 22nd & 23rd 2014. EURA NOVA‘s attendance purpose was to assess companies’ current Big Data challenges and to define an efficient positioning strategy in this highly competitive market. The following article depicts companies’ current expectations regarding Big Data, the approach they adopted and the challenges they face.
EURA NOVA recently tested the usually praised Tesla cars (The Model S P85 in our case). While we were impressed by the engineering work behind such a vehicle, some of its aspects convinced us that the near 100k € price point can’t be justified, in particular on the Belgian market with its volatile fiscal rules. Flashback on a very fun testing session!
