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What is RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)?
By Benjamin Ryzman, 9 June 2026
Previous articles walked through RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) as a programming model and InfiniBand as the fabric that was built around it. Both led to...
Beyond tokens per watt – using Ubuntu 26.04 LTS for AI
By Freyja Cooper, 5 June 2026
Tokens per watt (TpW) – the measure of useful AI work produced per watt of energy consumed – is the metric at top of mind for CEOs, heads of AI, and...
A look into Ubuntu Core 26: Deploying AI models on Renesas RZ/V series for production
By Gabriel Aguiar Noury, 4 June 2026
Welcome to this blog series which explores innovative uses of Ubuntu Core. Throughout this series, Canonical’s Engineers will show what you can build with our...
RISC-V profiles – why is RVA23 significant?
By Jon Taylor, 3 June 2026
Introduction One of the important offerings of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is the ability to customize and extend the base instruction set....
AI with AMD ROCm on Ubuntu: your questions answered
By Kevin Cazabon, 3 June 2026
AMD ROCm is now available in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Learn what how to make the best of it, and find out what this will mean in the coming years for development in Ubuntu.
Ubuntu and Ubuntu Pro on Azure Cobalt 200 VMs
By Jehudi, 2 June 2026
Microsoft has announced the preview of Azure Cobalt 200, its second-generation custom Arm silicon. Learn how Ubuntu and Ubuntu Pro support these new VMs from...
What is InfiniBand?
By Benjamin Ryzman, 2 June 2026
When distributed workloads stall because nodes cannot exchange small messages quickly and consistently, the network is the limiting factor. How do you solve...
How Canonical Support solves hard Linux performance bugs – even in 12-year old code
By Lidia Luna Puerta, 1 June 2026
A 12-year-old bug in libnss-db caused getent enumeration to slow to a crawl – and showed how far expert support can go when a customer brings the right...
Securing AI agent workflows on Ubuntu with the new NVIDIA OpenShell snap
By Canonical, 1 June 2026
By packaging OpenShell as a snap, Canonical is enabling enterprises to confidently run next-generation agentic workflows across local devices, hybrid...
Canonical announces optimized Ubuntu images for TPU virtual machines by Google Cloud
By Hugo Huang, 28 May 2026
Canonical and Google Cloud announced the availability of certified Ubuntu images for Google’s Cloud TPU Virtual Machines.
VMware hypervisor deployment using MAAS
By David Beamonte, 28 May 2026
Most modern datacenters are inherently heterogeneous. VMware environments coexist with container platforms, databases, and other bare-metal workloads, often...