Tag: Microsoft Azure

AI/ML

BLOOM LLM: how to use?

Asking BLOOM-560M “what is love?” it replies with “The woman who had my first kiss in my life had no idea that I was a man”. wtf?! Intro I’ve been into parallel computing since 2021, playing with OpenCL (you can read about it here), looking for maximizing devices capabilities. I’ve got pretty decent in-depth knowledge about how computational process works on GPUs and I’m curious how the most recent AI/ML/LLM technology works. And here you have my little introduction to LLM topic from practical point-of-view. Course of Action What is BLOOM? It is a BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual language

AI/ML

Microsoft Azure AI Services: computer vision

Use Microsoft Azure AI Services to analyze images, voice, documents. No AI/ML or coding skills required. Responsible AI applies by EU AI act. Formerly Cognitive Services. Course of Action What is Microsoft Azure? It is Microsoft’s public cloud platform offering broad range of products and services, including virtual machines, managed containers, databases, analytics platforms as well as AI Services. Major competitors of Azure are Amazon AWS and Google’s GCP. What are AI Services (formerly Cognitive Services)? It is a set of various services concerning recognition and analysis procedures based on already trained ML models (or even traditional programming techniques). You

Security

External and redundand Azure VM backups with Veeam to remote site

Backup is a must. Primary hardware fails. Local backups can also fail or can be inaccessible. Remote backups can also fail, but if you have 2, 3 or even more backup copies in different places and on various medium chances are high enough that you will survive major incidents without data loss or too much of being offline. Talking about Microsoft Azure public cloud platform. But in case of any infrastructure environment you should have working and verified backup tools. Azure has its own. To keep those backups in secure remote place (in the context of Storage Account) you can

Technology

oc rsync takes down OKD master processes

It might sound a little weird, but that’s the case. I was trying to setup NFS mount in OKD docker registry (from this tutorial). During oc rsync from inside docker-registry container I found that OKD master processes are down because of heath check thinking that there is some connectivity problem. This arised because oc rsync does not have rate limiting feature and it I fully utilized local network then there is no bandwidth left for the cluster itself. Few things taken out from logs (/var/log/messages): The starting transfer from docker-registry container is at the of 200MB/s. I’m not quite sure