Technology – Page 2 – Marco Santucci

Integrate Oracle Cloud Instance Management with Home Assistant

Post published:20 January 2025
Post category:Cloud Home Automation Life hack Technology Tutorial

In this post, I’ll guide you through setting up a solution to manage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) instances directly from Home Assistant using HTTP calls. By combining the power of the oci CLI and a Node.js server, you’ll be able to start, stop, and monitor your OCI instances effortlessly. Requirements Before starting, ensure you have the following: Home Assistant installed and running. A server with Node.js and OCI CLI installed. OCI CLI configured with the appropriate credentials. Your instance's OCID…

Optimizing HPC Storage: Lustre Design Strategies for Oracle OCI

Post published:29 October 2024
Post category:Cloud Technology

In today’s high-performance computing (HPC) landscape, storage solutions that offer speed, scalability, and reliability are essential. Lustre, an open-source parallel file system, is a popular choice for HPC environments due to its capacity to handle large datasets and intensive workloads. When deploying Lustre on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), achieving an optimized design that balances performance with cost-efficiency requires careful planning. Let's explore key Lustre infrastructure design patterns tailored for OCI, focusing on strategies to meet diverse storage needs and performance…

Understanding Lustre Performance: Throughput in High-Demand Scenarios

Post published:22 October 2024
Post category:Technology

When it comes to AI and machine learning applications, data throughput can become the deciding factor between success and failure. Lustre’s architecture is designed to offer unmatched performance across large-scale clusters, and the achievable throughput can be optimized based on the hardware configuration—specifically, the type of storage drives used and the network infrastructure in place. Throughput on Different Storage Drives 1. HDDs (Hard Disk Drives) For installations that use traditional HDDs, throughput generally peaks between 100 to 200 MB/s…