Graviton Mac OS
In this case we can se that the Neoverse N1 cores used by Graviton is significantly weaker than Apple’s Firestorm cores and AMD’s Zen3 cores. They gave up on their Mac OS X Server. The other thing to consider is: 1. The 512 bit AVX instructions are used by very little software 2. When you have 2x the core count, you can (and threadripper normally does) brute force the performance with more cores to STILL be faster on those vector instructions - whilst being 2x the performance in everything else. 🚀 A modern-looking Code Editor. Contribute to Graviton-Code-Editor/Graviton-App development by creating an account on GitHub.
Back when N1 was announced, ARM seemed to think 1MB/core was a good spot for Neoverse LLC - I wonder why both Graviton and Altra are going for considerably less. Reply shing3232 - Tuesday, March.
I keep my SSH private key on a USB thumb drive.The idea is that I don't want my private key to be on the hard disk of any of the computers that I use. I use several and so I'm not observing them all constantly, so I don't want to leave my key around for automated attackers to pick it up.
I load the key directly from the USB drive into my SSH agent, which then
mlock()s it so it doesn't get put into swap.This works on Windows (with PuTTY) and Linux just fine. Unfortunately MacOS X has a nasty habit of mounting FAT volumes with free-for-all permissions, so when I try to load the key:
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WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Permissions 0777 for '/Volumes/GRAVITON/....id_rsa' are too open.
It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.
This private key will be ignored.I thought that this was an intractible problem. The only solution I'd found previously was to make a copy of the key, make a sparse disk image, and manually mount the sparse disk image. However, this workaround has two problems:
- It's inconvenient. I have to manually locate the disk image every time, double click it, etc.
- It's insecure. If I ever allow other users to log in to any of my OS X machines, they can read the version of the key I'm not using on the FAT filesystem, even if only I can read the one on the HFS+ disk image.
answer.The daemon that mounts disk on OS X is called '
diskarbitrationd'. I discovered this by running across some OpenDarwin documentation which explains that you can configure this daemon by putting a line into fstab.First you need a way to identify the device in question. None of the suggested mechanisms for determining the device UUID worked for me, so I used the device label instead. This is probably desirable anyway, since at least you can tell when the label changes; if you move your key to a similar device, the UUID is different but you can't tell.
You can set the device label by mounting your USB drive, doing 'get info' on it, editing the name in the 'name and extension' section, and then hitting enter. You should use an all-caps name, since when you re-mount the drive it will be all-caps again anyway.
You also need to know your user-ID. The command 'id -u' will return it.
Then, you need to add a single line to
/etc/fstab. My drive's label is 'GRAVITON', and my user-ID is 501, so it looks like this:Graviton Mac Os Catalina
LABEL=GRAVITON none msdos -u=501,-m=700Graviton Mass
Now, all you have to do is eject your drive and plug it in again. Voila!Graviton Mac Os Download
$ ssh-add /Volumes/GRAVITON/....keychain.id_rsa
Identity added: /Volumes/GRAVITON/....keychain.id_rsa (/Volumes/GRAVITON/...keychain.id_rsa)
Now you can securely carry your SSH key with you to macs, without breaking ssh-agent's intended protection.
ARM has introduced the Neoverse N1 platform, the blueprint for creating power-efficient processors licensed to institutions that can customize the original design to meet their specific requirements. Ampere licensed the Neoverse N1 platform to create the Ampere Altra, a processor that allows companies that own and manage their own fleet of servers, like ourselves, to take advantage of the expanding ARM ecosystem. We have been working with Ampere to determine whether Altra is the right processor to power our first generation of ARM edge servers.
Graviton Mac Os Update
The AWS Graviton2 is the only other Neoverse N1-based processor publicly accessible, but only made available through Amazon’s cloud product portfolio. We wanted to understand the differences between the two, so we compared Ampere’s single-socket server, named Mt. Snow, equipped with the Ampere Altra Q80-30 against an EC2 instance of the AWS Graviton2.