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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched EC2 instances it says are specifically optimized for deep learning training.

The new Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances are powered by AWS Trainium chips, a second-generation ML chip designed by AWS, following on from its AWS Inferentia chips.

The cloud giant claims these new instances are well-suited for large-scale distributed training of complex deep learning models, such as natural language processing and image recognition.

What do users get?

Trn1 instances are available in two configurations and are powered by up to 16 AWS Trainium chips with 128 vCPUs. 

The instances apparently offer up to 512 GB of high-bandwidth memory and deliver up to 3.4 petaFLOPS of TF32/FP16/BF16 compute power and feature a NeuronLink interconnect between chips. NeuronLink helps avoid communication bottlenecks when scaling workloads across multiple Trainium chips.

In addition, Amazon says Trn1 instances are the first EC2 instances to enable up to 800 Gbps of Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) network bandwidth for high-throughput network communication. And Trn1 instances come with up to 8 TB of local NVMe SSD storage for ultra-fast access to large datasets.

AWS also said its Trainium chips include specific scalar, vector, and tensor engines that are purpose-built for deep learning algorithms. 

Other new features of Trainium chips include support for a wide range of data types, including FP32, TF32, BF16, FP16, and UINT8, Stochastic rounding,  as well as custom operators written in C++ and dynamic tensor shapes.

AWS Trainium shares the same AWS Neuron SDK as AWS Inferentia, which could make the transition to AWS Trainium easier.

Where can I sign up?

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You can launch Trn1 instances today in certain regions such as AWS US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).

These Trn1 instances can be deployed using AWS Deep Learning AMIs, and container images are available via managed services such as Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), and AWS ParallelCluster.

To learn more, you can head to Amazon EC2's Trn1 instances page.

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Hong Kong-based single-board computer maker Pine64 is reportedly about to take on Raspberry Pi with its upcoming Ox64, according to CNX Software.

The Ox64 will be built on RISC-V architecture to directly challenge the Raspberry Pi Pico W. While Pine64 has not yet made an official announcement, a wiki post does give us a fairly detailed hint at what to expect.

Its CPU features two Alibaba T-head cores, one 62-bit and the other 32-bit, and the machine has 64MB of DRAM (compared with the Pico W’s 264Kb). It also uses a Bouffalo Lab AI engine for video and audio detection and recognition.

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In terms of connectivity, like the Raspberry Pi Pico W, there’s built-in Wi-Fi. The Ox64 uses the same Wi-Fi 4 standard and only connects to 2.4GHz channels. While Wi-Fi 6 is beginning to gain serious traction in household devices, Wi-Fi 4 should be sufficient for most microcontroller users.

There’s also Bluetooth 5 with support for Bluetooth Low Energy, and for smart home aficionados, Zigbee (specifically IEEE 802.15.4).

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Onboard storage is capped at 128Mb/16MB, however there’s support for SDHC/SDXC microSD cards. Further expansion comes courtesy of a USB 2.0 port, 26 GPIO pins dotted around the outside of the module with SPI, I2C and UART functionality, and a USB-C port for power.

Like the Raspberry Pi Pico W, the Ox64’s footprint measures 51x21mm. It is slightly thicker than the Pico W, though, at 19mm (compared with 3.9mm for the Pico W or 12.9mm for the Pico WH). 

Little is known about the future applications of the Ox64, though it’s likely to support a Linux operating system, including many of the Raspberry Pi distros that are readily available. It’s also expected to come in at under $10/£10, much like its key rival.

TechRadar Pro has reached out to the company for further information on the Ox64 and will update this article accordingly.

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Google Cloud is set to launch a new tool that will enable users to create and manage
certain resources and services directly, as well as conferring a performance advantage.

The cloud giant claims the tool, dubbed "gcloud storage CLI", will enable up to 94% faster data transfers when using its cloud storage. 

Users were previously able to tweak their Google Cloud resources on the command line or via scripts via Google Cloud CLI, but the new tool is supposedly set to modernize the experience. 

How does it work?

Google claims the faster transfer rates are a result of two primary innovations within gcloud storage. 

Firstly, gcloud storage apparently uses faster hashing tools for CRC32C data integrity checking that skip the complicated setup required for gsutil, the tool's Python-based predecessor. 

Second, the new tool utilizes a new parallelization strategy that treats task management as a graph problem, which is said to allow "more work to be done in parallel with far less overhead".

When transferring 100 files that were 100MB in size, Google claims gcloud storage is 79% faster than gsutil on download and 33% faster on upload using a parallel composite upload strategy. 

In addition to the performance improvements, Google also pitches the new tool as a "consistent way" to manage all Google Cloud resources like Cloud Storage buckets, Compute Engine VMs, and Google Kubernetes Engine clusters.

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For example, gcloud storage reportedly significantly reduces the number of top level commands that users have to use to manage their Cloud Storage resources, by grouping commands under common headers.

gcloud storage CLI is currently available and ready to use without any additional charges. You can install or upgrade to the latest version of the Google Cloud SDK here to get access to the new CLI. 

If you'd like to learn more about how gcloud storage CLI works, you can refer to the documentation here.

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A Netherlands-based employee of Chetu, a Florida company, has won a court case against their employer for unfair dismissal on the subject of remote work webcam surveillance.

The worker was asked to enable screen sharing and webcam access for an entire working day while attending a training program, but after refusing to do so, faced the sack. This may have been above board in Florida where workers or companies are not required to give any notice or reason for terminating a contract, however employment rules around the globe offer different levels of protection.

According to the publicly available court documents issued by the Court of Zeeland West-Brabant, the worker explained to the company:

“I don't feel comfortable being monitored for 9 hours a day by a camera. This is an invasion of my privacy and makes me feel really uncomfortable. That's the reason why my camera isn't on. You can already monitor all activities on my laptop and I am sharing my screen.”

Monitoring staff via webcam

The following day, Chetu notified the worker of their contract’s termination by email, on the grounds of refusal to work and insubordination.

Ultimately, the court ruled in the worker’s favor, insisting that Chetu pay the claimant $2,600 in unpaid salary, $9,245 in worker transition assistance, and a further $8,150 on the basis of wrongful contract termination. The fines extended to the equivalent of 23 days’ holiday pay, an 8% holiday allowance, and any court and late payment fees incurred, bringing the total to nearly $50,000.

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The court summarized that “camera surveillance during nine hours a day is disproportionate and not allowed in the Netherlands. In addition, he was already checked for output via software installed on his laptop.” It continues: “There was no question of refusal to work.”

The court notes also highlight the company’s lack of statement or defence against this case, alongside the fact that Chetu did not appear at the hearing.

Chetu has since dissolved its Dutch branch, and has deregistered from the country’s trade register as of September 1, 2022.

TechRadar Pro has asked the company for a response to the ruling.

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