From ff61dd430de567172e4223b114b89345b8e3a1f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pim van Pelt Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:59:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add Friday, ESNOG day 2 --- content/blog/wk13day5.md | 98 ++++++++++++++++++- static/img/fullsize/2024-10-25/group.png | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-10-25/kahoot.png | 3 + .../img/fullsize/2024-10-25/marenostrum.png | 3 + static/img/headline/soulfulliquid-03.png | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-25/group.png | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-25/kahoot.png | 3 + .../img/thumbnails/2024-10-25/marenostrum.png | 3 + 8 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-10-25/group.png create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-10-25/kahoot.png create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-10-25/marenostrum.png create mode 100644 static/img/headline/soulfulliquid-03.png create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-25/group.png create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-25/kahoot.png create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-25/marenostrum.png diff --git a/content/blog/wk13day5.md b/content/blog/wk13day5.md index 7520c73..6c80d78 100644 --- a/content/blog/wk13day5.md +++ b/content/blog/wk13day5.md @@ -1,7 +1,99 @@ --- -title: "Week 13, Friday:" +title: "Week 13, Friday: ESNOG'32 Day 2" date: 2024-10-25T21:55:00+02:00 -draft: true --- -{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/todo.png" alt="Credit: " >}} +{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/relakzone.png" alt="Credit: Relak Zone, YouTube" >}} + +A few months ago, on Mastodon one Eduardo Collado approached me and he was asking about the FrysIX +pins that I had made. If I could maybe send a couple to him, he'd gladgly distribute them at an +upcoming ESNOG event. Upcoming event you say? How's about I come and bring them!? So I mailed the +program committee and suggested to bring a presentation on VPP's ability to run Babel and OSPFv3 +without the need for IPv4 or IPv6 transit networks. They accepted, and here I am :) + +Yesterday, I lined up two opportunities to share my ongoing work on sFlow in VPP: one at FOSDEM'25, +for which Luca Deri invited me to submit a _call for papers_; and another one about network +telemetry and observability which Luca is organizing in Zurich. And so, it is proven once again, +that NOGs are self-perpetuating. There's always somebody intersted in hearning nerdy stories and I'm +always interested in telling them! + +This morning, a bunch of the participants went to visit the +[[Marenostrum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MareNostrum)] supercomputer at the _BSC_ (Barcelona +Supercomputer Center). It is the most powerful supercomputer in Spain, one of thirteen +supercomputers in the Spanish Supercomputing Network and one of the seven supercomputers of the +European infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe). It has ~166K CPU, +390TB of memory and 14PB of storage and is rated to 1.3MWatt of power. The coolest thing ever: it's +built into a former chapel named _Torre Girona_, at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, where +our event is being hosted. + +At 10:30 the program kicks off with Ismael Castell's thoughtful presentation about Discovering +databrokers - Bringing to light hidden companies. This presentation resonated with me, as there's so +much data gathering and inappropriate use of my (and our) personal data on the Internet. This is +also why I've taken to _selfhosting_ (Mastodon, Peertube, NextCloud, Immich, Plausible, Roundcube, +and several more). + +After a coffee break, Gerhard Stein of Flexoptix brings us some theory and practice about Coherent +optical transceivers – current capabilities and future capabilities. Then, Jovana Palibrik of Kentik +talks about the adoption of RPKI ROV - in particular a huge step-function jump after last year +Orange misplaced its password and found its prefixes rerouted and hijacked. Manuel Mendez shared an +industry update from Arista with a gazillion different flavors of 400GE optics. + +Then we had lunch - very similar to the one yesterday, and I had a chat with the Flexoptix folks. We +talked about _Return to Office_, my sabbatical (and Andrea's too!); and the state of optical +engineering. I personally would never have thought in the 90s when I studied this stuff, that it +would become such a huge industry! + +After lunch, I was invited on stage to bring my presentation entitled VPP: A 100Gbps/100Mpps+ +BGP/OSPF router with a single IPv4 address. It was fun to present here - in English and at a +reasonably slow pace - and answer a few questions at the end. It was +[[recorded](https://video.ipng.ch/w/i4ibtvEkUmEE39mkCNeDzQ)] and the slides are +[[online](https://go.ipng.ch/esnog32)] as well. I also lay out a set of IPng ntag-pins which find +new homes with the participants of ESNOG'32 at the University of Technology. + +After my talk, Maria Isabel Gandia of CATNIX and Amadeo Beck-Pecoz of ESPANIX give some tips and +tricks on how to peer _correctly_ in a talk entitled _Como sacar el máximo provecho de los puertos +de peering en nodos neutros_ (English: How to make the most of peering ports in neutral nodes), +after which there's one more social-cultural activity: a kahoot! + +The kahoot is a quiz with fifteen questions about technology and cultural references from the +spanish internet industry and its pioneers. I participate in the kahoot and, despite my Spanish +sucking (and delays due to having to translate ES->EN and then my answer back EN->ES), I manage to +make the podium together with a player called _Edu_ (_Eduardo Taboada_ who was gracious to give me +his book on Proxmox!) and a player called _IPv6_. I am over the moon that I managed to win here! I +take the time to thank the ESNOG organizers, as they did a fantastic job with the logistics and the +varied program. I really enjoyed myself! + +Then just like that, ESNOG'32 is over. It's 17:00 or so and I make my way back to the hotel, where +Marina is already lounging and ready for an apéro. First, we take a little walk through the +park and I call my Dad, who is celebrating his birthday today. My parents are doing good, they just +got their flu and corona shots (good for them!) and they ask me about my COVID episode last week. We +have a good conversation and say our goodbyes - they will be visiting us in Switzerland in December. + +At 20:00 we make our way to the city for dinner. It's a bit of a puzzle to find a place that has +good tapas, is not too far away, and is affordable. We find a place, honesty not that great though, +and we have our food and a bottle of _Arienzo_ wine from the house of Marques de Riscal. On the way +back we see a local sight: _Zurich_, the insurance company, as well has an office in the Diagonal +area of Barcelona. + +Back at the hotel it's 22:00 and we're both a bit tired. Marina has done a tonne of walking and +museum-visiting today, and I spent the day up and about at ESNOG. Interestingly, my Apple watch +informs me that I have closed all three rings (12h of standing, 30min of exercize, 950kCal of +activity). I would not have thought that! + +## Pictures of the Day + +{{< gallery-category >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-25/marenostrum.png" caption="Picture of Marenostrum 4 in the chapel at UPC, Barcelona" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-25/IMG_2203.JPG" caption="A heart-shaped formation of a bunch of IPng ntag-pins, almost all of which got a new owner today." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-25/IMG_2205.JPG" caption="A selfie at the podium of the University of Tech, Barcelona, Catalunya." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-25/group.png" caption="A gorup picture of the ESNOG'32 participants." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-25/IMG_2209.JPG" caption="A selfie at the front door of the UPC Edifici Vertex building of UPC in Barcelona." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-25/kahoot.png" caption="I am giggly because I did not expect to win a Spanish spoken kahoot!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-25/IMG_2210.JPG" caption="The Pedralbes Royal Palace in Pedralbes quarter of Barcelona, Catalunya." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-25/IMG_2211.JPG" caption="A bottle of Rioja called Arienzo, from Marques de Riscal" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-25/IMG_2214.JPG" caption="A selfie of Marina and I in front of the Zurich insurance company in Diagonal, Barcelona." >}} +{{< /gallery-category >}} + +{{< gallery-modal >}} +{{< gallery-script >}} + diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-25/group.png b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-25/group.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7258381 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-25/group.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:15b9bcf5695717af91cf1f601548304a5edaf4e8a59a83c9a401b3ea9b1a0820 +size 1904077 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-25/kahoot.png b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-25/kahoot.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5c3ecce --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-25/kahoot.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:aaebdc873d038b8531707a87bcd9aad58ec34970dd453f6451c3ce524b9766a9 +size 1291334 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-25/marenostrum.png b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-25/marenostrum.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cff9ff5 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-25/marenostrum.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:6988b7c68e6cfc0d0234578cb2c136f6e0b8b43c20ce27e31c05bda902069ed2 +size 796594 diff --git a/static/img/headline/soulfulliquid-03.png b/static/img/headline/soulfulliquid-03.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e9a63b --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/headline/soulfulliquid-03.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:ccab061dfb462e77bf380a730a87124665c3c0cc6369a3ec45ecbaea5615eed5 +size 118473 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-25/group.png b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-25/group.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..21a7ecc --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-25/group.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:6c1d614f89c75ad2cc1ae5c2aa01877a50179d79ad03c7c849631cf591ce838a +size 188008 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-25/kahoot.png b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-25/kahoot.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3e17563 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-25/kahoot.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:bd047a67272fd8711e5461f0f3792d200a289eff78f6f53934a8c4fa6984544a +size 471821 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-25/marenostrum.png b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-25/marenostrum.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f5c94cf --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-25/marenostrum.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:ff4f6062cd3fa00cd2f0d1809a7e35d6048ed4897b17a4b20bdf31478c154d40 +size 237416