Welcome to the last set news or Dan for short. My name is Rob. Today is the thumbnail and title suggest it looks like France is coming up big with crypto I want to talk about What the finance minister said and how it just seems like everything that's going on in the background is now becoming light Then we'll take a look at what Walmart is doing with crypto and it's not just that they're offering payments in-house That's not what they're talking about. They're talking about virtual payments and things behind the scenes We're gonna take a look at the CFO or the CTO as he talks about what's going on Then we'll talk about crypto isn't for fraud. It's actually the banks we'll take a look at what's going on with Deutsche Bank and then lastly I just want to talk about a Comment that has been made in the past which is is crypto occult and yes, it is and I'm gonna tell you We're in good company So we'll go over all those things and we'll do a little Q&A at the very end So first things first the first one is France announces they want to be a crypto hub and this was from Blockworks and talk about how the France finance minister says we want France to be the European hub of the crypto asset Ecosystem and it's not just what he says. It's about the reason why he's talking about that and This just gives me hope for America because America is doing the wrong things I think we are bickering and arguing over just the small groundwork and that is the the sec in the CFTC And I know Gary watches the show so Gary. I'm just gonna plead to you right now if you could set aside your pride and the things that you believe just for a second and make some concessions and work with the CFTC and Actually drop that frivolous lawsuit against XRP. That'd be or a ripple. That'd be fantastic Let's just move forward because if not we got things like this where France and other European countries just passes up Passes by and I can just see this is where things are going now to break this down to what was actually said This is Lamar and he is I think I nailed that one He is the finance minister. He says we want to make the European Union the world's leading Economic zone for structuring and organizing the crypto market. We want France to be the European hub great This is on top of the EU your opinion. You just agreed to its landmark markets and crypto assets law Micah and you know 667 eight months months ago. We're talking about how that could have been a disaster But thankfully cooler heads prevailed and it looks like they're going forward with PO proof of work in different crypto This allows crypto companies to operate across the block if they meet investor protection and stability norms so we get this from the Finance Minister and who jumps on board? Well, Binance and crypto comm have registered with the French authorities under legislation Which anticipates some of Micah's aims? So no, they didn't just come in just because of this one statement. Look these guys They're huge and they know what's going on behind the scenes I mean I mean CZ Binance is a billionaire I'm pretty sure and it's not like he doesn't have his ear to the ground or the people that he works with ear to The ground knowing what's gonna happen. There's a reason why why Binance branches out into into France And we get stuck with Binance us which is only available in certain states here in this in the in the US but whatever So this is what is going on? and then That's interesting part here It's not just here by answering crypto comm but it states but French lawmakers have protested the government is not doing enough To encourage web three entrepreneurs and why is that? taxes We want to use the year 2023 to deepen our reflection with stakeholders in order to identify if new Adaptations to tax legislations are necessary. So I've talked about this on the show many times and it's the same thing here Crypto is not going away. Bitcoin is not going to zero crypto will keep growing some Projects will go to the wayside just that's just how it is But it's not going to go away because there's too much money in taxes. I cannot say that enough There's a reason why they want to bring innovation there because innovate Asian you can actually tax So I'm gonna think about that in the comment section. I see this as a bullish Statement and now the next one is even more interesting. This was The Walmart story the Walmart CTO weighs in on the role of crypto He says crypto will become an important part of how customers transact and I gotta tell you I don't use any crypto for buying anything I don't know if you do that sound often the in the chat or the comments But I don't go and pay my taxes with Bitcoin I don't go to the store and pay for anything with with with crypto. He doesn't make any sense So like with this one, I just I look at I'm like, what's really going on this The actual article doesn't really tell you too much. It's in the interview. So this is what was said This is Walmart CTO a chief technical officer says I think a lot of disruption is going to start happening in terms of different payment methods Different payment options crypto is going to continue to play a very important role in that But that's not the story. The story is what he says here. Listen to this. This really comes down to Not just web 3 but the virtual and the metaverse You are the global CTO I can't let you go without asking you about crypto because Walmart did make some headlines at the end of last year when you Filed a number of key trademarks that appear to point to the company's intentions to sell as well as market virtual goods You already got blockchain technology integrated into the system here. What's the rule of crypto in Walmart's future? It's a great question. I Think that there are three major areas of Disruption crypto falls in sort of the the middle of it. I have talked before about the way in which customers are Getting inspired and discovering products that is changing And part of that is going to happen in the metaverse part of that is going to happen You know on live streams inside Your social media app So whether it is physical goods or virtual goods They play a part in terms of what the customer wants Crypto Will become an important part of how customers transact We want to make sure that if we make it as friction free for for customers to be able to to transact and to be able to buy And how they are able to drive value out of it, right? And that is where I think a lot of the disruption is going to start happening in terms of different payment methods different payment options Is going to continue to play a very important role in that and obviously we want to To be there where the customer really needs us to be the last part of it is how products get discovered products get delivered Lot of disruption going on over there, but Okay, great, then he goes on for about delivery, which I get which is an important problem I get for a Walmart to have but what he talks about there is just it makes sense We're talking about the metaverse and the things that are being bought inside the metaverse not right now Obviously, but those those virtual goods. I know it sounds ridiculous to some of us Just like maybe the internet sounded ridiculous to us not too long ago Or maybe having things delivered to your house by a company that was one at one point Just a bookstore called Amazon that sounds ridiculous too, but now here we are and we rely on those things So maybe as time goes on what Walmart is talking about is we want to be able to be with a customer is again I'm not using crypto for payments But now the countries I can see it in the metaverse I can see it especially if you want to buy some kind of digital good and move from there Which is often by Walmart and of course, we'll see how it all plays out But again patents patents already being underway for Walmart to get into this space And I see it as a as a bullish Statement and lastly I will say this if you're looking for a Protocol that is looking into that pretty heavily take a look at Boson BOS on protocol.io. They're doing the same thing They have a belief that everything that we have which sounds to me it even sounds ridiculous Everything that we have in the real world There will be a digital version of that in some type of web 3 you're some type of metaverse play and of course How do we do that? Well, we have to enable transactions and I don't think it's gonna be debit cards and credit cards I think it's gonna be web 3 wallets like I met a mass moving forward So let me just think about that in the comments and then almost to last Crypto is not for fraud.  So I welcome all comments Here's what we got in connection with an ongoing investigation of the multi-billion euro tax fraud scheme known as come X Deutsche Bank said on Tuesday. What is come X? It's a great question come X Banks and investors would swiftly trade shares of companies around their dividend payout during blurring stock ownership And allowing multiple parties to falsely reclaimed tax rebates on dividends. Well, that's an awful thing That's been going on for quite some time early this year prosecutors rated Deutsche Bank and its asset management in unit DWS over allegations of Misleading investors about green investments So this is not the first time with Deutsche Bank or a lot of banks that are out there I'm gonna talk about green investments. You know what that is ESG and they got busted Because they were hiding different things and allowing different corporations and entities to get away with not investing into ESG's pretty much picking winners and that's why I say on this channel ESG is a fraud and Investors don't care about that the majority They just want to make a profit this ESG nonsense is out the window But hey, that's what people believe in so sure and then lastly government officials say it involves some 100 banks on four continents and at least 1000 suspects so again as we talk and we move forward and we talk about and we hear this the same narrative Which is crypto is is for fraudsters and it is for illicit activities and drug runners and cartels and terrorism And it's just nothing but bad stuff look at the banks first and that is the first part and the second part is As we take a look at the banks and their downturn, I also want to take a look at how people are preparing for I believe Another economic downturn. I Don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that we're gonna have a recession in 2023 if we're not in one already That's debatable. That's another video, but this was a It was a it was a summary. It was a chart a poll from CNBC 76% of adults are making lifestyle changes to prepare for a potential recession Crank you a new survey which if you think about it 76% it's pretty good, right? Three out of four, but then if we take a look here like well How what are you doing and out of all these things delaying major purchases like a home or a car a third a Third of people are delaying the purchases like a home or car and some people are like nope I'm buying it right now.  Don't you know that it's gonna collapse? Come moving the future now not financial advice not financial visor, but come on and then also a third roughly paying down debt The rest are just kind of maybe they're having hard times and they're Racking up more debt on their credit cards because the stimmy checks are out. Who knows playing to reduce holiday spending Oh, no, that's not gonna happen one out of four Allocating more in coin income to savings. Well, I can see that because I mean savings. What do you do with that? Let them flay away. However It's not a bad idea to stack cash Because people will say, well, you know, it's it's gonna inflate away so so much anyhow Look, I don't know if you've lived under a rock But the crypto market has been doing so hot either neither has traditional markets like the s&p 500 and Nasdaq So in reality, you probably lose more money Just not sitting on cash for a while until everything really goes down if it does and then staying in a job They don't enjoy I think we've all done that 14% that one I could really see it. But I again, I don't when I take a look at these. I'm like, I Would think that people would prepare a little more. I know I am I'm just sitting back I'm not taking on any debts and kind of strip things down just waiting because I think there's a downturn coming Maybe not in the next two months, but in 2023 I can see it And that's where I want to be as an investor moving forward and then this also plays it out This was a great post by Diddy talking about downturns He says look at these yearly Bitcoin returns of the past 12 years Do you think it's possible to reach 50% per year for the next eight years? And there's this diagram here and it talks about how in 2022 The year end of the price of Bitcoin because we started the price of Bitcoin at 47,920. Oh, it was pretty good times At year-end they're predicting Maybe 25,000 and if you take 25,000 plus 50% every year that means in 10 years you could see 640,000 I don't really know about that. I don't really care about that. What was interesting to me was that you can see that The law of diminishing returns is in full effect here in 2010 Wow, 2010 Bitcoin was point a fraction of a penny and went to 30 cents 9900% gain 2011 2012 which was doesn't tell was the first halving and then 2013 was the first major bull run and it went up 5,500 percent pretty good Then it took a big dip in 2014 down 58% one thing I want you to notice is take a look at these bull markets You had 5,500 in 2013 In 2017 it was only 1331 in only 2021. It was 66% That's from the from the top to the bottom And if you take a look here, so there's diminishing returns here, but one thing I it's interesting here is The percent change in the bear markets 2014 down 58% 2018 73% that's pretty bad and again like I still think we've got a little ways to go Here's those price differences in 2013 from the top to the bottom From the top of 2013 to the bottom in 2015 85% top to bottom 27 20 84% And for us we're only at 71% so again I'm not telling you what to do. I just take a look at these numbers and go I there might be some more some more downturn. However, having said all that I'm not 100% sure so I still dollar cost average in a lesser amount So let me think about that in the comments and the last one. I just I Wanted to share this because all the comments about the different chains. I mean crypto in general. Let's be honest Crypto in general is a cult Certain projects are a cult.  It is come on and This is a comment Which is what I've always felt like this is from Keith rebois Rob, I I nailed that one Keith rebois. That's it He's a former exec and CEO of some of the biggest companies LinkedIn PayPal square and open door He knows what it takes to be successful So I said if your crypto gets called a cult just say thanks.  You have a special way of doing things. That's better than anyone else in the world Basically, you are the best and it's hard for anybody to tell you differently. So now think about your project. Is your projects cult-ish Probably but is that a bad thing look I did CrossFit for years. That's a huge cult and guess what it has astronomical success Across the entire world. So I mean people say it's a cult. I'm like, what's the problem? I mean, that's just kind of builds us up. So that's fine Now, you know who else likes CrossFit chiropractors because you get damaged and destroyed in that one, but you get in great shape Same thing with Apple that's a cult see all the people that are standing outside waiting for those stupid phones Which really aren't that great. I'll be honest with you. I have one. The only thing that's really good is the new camera But yet cult-ish So but what does it do? It propels those startups that propels those companies the stratosphere because people will not give up on those Companies and that's honestly what I look for like I take a look at different projects I always think myself does this make the cut the CUTT and the first one which is is the C is community How big is the community and where they're leading things? The next parts are utility tokenomics and team which are important But I gotta tell you in the crypto market as an as a speculative asset I think it's more cult-ish and I'm okay with that because that's just how it is So, yeah, let me just think about that in the comment section and speaking of cults Or products that I like sweat coin Couldn't go I couldn't stop I couldn't help myself Did you know and before you be asked yes, I own a bunch of it. Yes, I'm biased And yes, I saw James's video on sweat coin. It was very interesting about the The drop in the amount of users and on price. Well, that's true Fair market, but I will say this, you know, they have 3.5 million active users in the first month It's pretty good And they have 110 million app downloads because the difference between the app And the actual crypto wallet, which is sweat. I think I'll do quite well That's what I got. So look that concludes today for the news. Lastly, I'm just going to say this We're going to do the Celsius update There was a video we did. I did it with Aaron Bennett and Tiffany Fong You can check them out on their respective youtube channels and we have the video coming out in Gosh four hours or so it'll be a live premiere I'll be in the chats. I'm pretty sure Tiffany will be I think Aaron's going to be in the chats So you can you can chat with them live and ask them any question that you want to and really what I try to do Was we put together a timeline of what happened and what the different plans are and where things are going I think this one's a do not miss So there is a link in the description And you can check that out and that's it. So look That's it for today.  I appreciate you stopping by you've been here almost 20 minutes Thanks for hanging out with me But now we'll go into the q&a. I'll answer all your questions the best my abilities and we'll go from there So let's jump into the q&a and actually I'm going to put that The link to that video in the chat Right now


Hey everyone, welcome to the Nintendo Prime Podcast, episode 22! Just two of us this week, as always, I am your host, Nathaniel Rufflejadz, joined by Mr. Eric Moore. How's it going guys? And this is a bit of a special week, you might see our eyes drift a little bit because we're recording this during draft week. And when I say draft week, I'm of course talking about the NFL. Doesn't mean I don't get excited about the NBA draft, my bucks just got, or our bucks just got eliminated. But they fought valiantly, which is nice. But the reason I bring up the draft, because I'm not going to talk a ton of sports on this channel, is because we are going to do our own draft. And we're doing a draft of 30 Nintendo characters. Now, the thing is, is the 30 characters have been all pre-selected. There was no input by anyone but me. Well, the idea is, we'll go back and forth drafting our first, drafting a team of 15. And then we're going to put our 15 characters in a poll down in the comments, or down in the comments, down in the description. You guys know what's going on. If you're listening to the audio version, I will put a link to the poll on Podbean, if that's how you obtained it. Otherwise it'll be a link to it obviously on our website and on our YouTube video. And in that poll, you'll be able to decide who built the better roster. Now, how you want to decide who built the better roster is totally up to you. We're going to have some trash talking. We're going to do some swaying over which characters are better than others. You know, whether you want to consider which characters are going to be better in all a fight, like a Smash Bros. style, maybe you want to think about all these characters competing in a Mario Kart match. You know, however you think these characters could be used, it could be in tennis, it could be in bowling, it could just be, and who is the best speed walker. The reality is, however you guys want to decide who has the best group of 15 Nintendo characters. And it's key that I say Nintendo characters because I'm only including characters on this list that are in games that are exclusive to Nintendo platforms. Primarily IP that are owned by Nintendo. As an example, there are Fire Emblem characters here. Fire Emblems may be by a second party studio, but Nintendo owns the IP. On the opposite side, you're not going to see characters like from Banjo-Kazooie or, you know, any company that Nintendo does not own the IP rights for. And we limited the selections down to just four characters per franchise. So as an example, for like the Mario series, we have Mario Luigi Bowser and Peach included on the list, but Yoshi does not make the mix.  However, Yoshi started as a Mario character. So, now there is one exception to this and that is that two characters from Donkey Kong are included. However, I decided that Mario doesn't count as starting with Donkey Kong since the original Donkey Kong release was just called Jump Man. So I'm not, even though it was later renamed to Mario, I'm not counting Mario as part of the Donkey Kong series, if that makes any sense. But yeah. So, totally at random, you might think the roster is terrible overall, but it's who has the least terrible roster lineup out there. That's probably going to be more real when it is. Who has the least terrible roster? So in the video version, in the background right now, you will see the 30 characters available to be drafted, which is insane. I don't know. This is going to be the most video I think I've ever done. I'm pretty excited about this. So, Eric just tried to be like, oh hey, here's what I'm going to study. Those first odds even random number generator. I'm thinking of Rock, Paper, Scissors, man. Remember, we're on a video. Oh, we get second and fourth, okay. Yeah, Packers traded their pick in the first round. For those who care, you guys already know the results of the draft by the time you watch this. But this is the Nintendo Prime Nintendo character draft. So, let's go with a little Rock, Paper, Scissors action. I do like the random number generator, but this is more competitive.  I know, I know, I know. So let's do it. So we're going to go one, two, three, shoot, okay? And then, yeah. On shoot? So Rock, Paper, Scissors, shoot. Okay. Best two out of three. Okay. So Rock, Paper, Scissors, shoot. Rock, Paper, Scissors, shoot. Rock, Paper, Scissors, shoot. Dang it. So Eric is the number one overall pick. I got to look at my list here. Right, right. So, we're going to have to name our teams, by the way. Right, right. But you know what? I'm going to not name it yet. The name might be up here when you guys are looking at it. But that's because we figured out our names later after we see what our team is. Right. Oh, God.  Oh, okay. You have to. Going with the mascot. You have to. I mean, it's, it's one of those things that's just, yeah. Man, that's, that's tough to beat. It's tough to beat. Oh, I got to go with my main man, Link. That's got to happen. Yeah, I kind of think. Come on, come on, people. Come on, Link. Most popular Nintendo game out right now. Breath of the Wild. Yeah. Come on, baby. I got to give you that one. Come on, baby. If you have Mario, I have to have Link on my side. Yeah, I know. I was hoping to actually you won, but I shouldn't have known better. The good question is, if I would have went Link, would you have gone Mario? No, I would not have. Damn. All right. Well, I want to go for the win, baby. All right. I want to go for the obvious. Although, I just totally could not be speaking. What do we got over here? Down the clock, baby. On the clock, on the clock, on the clock. Let's see. God, I think I'm going to have to go with another kind of fairly popular choice with Pikachu. Because that's not saying that that's my favorite pick, but it's. Hey, it's your team. You want to go with Pikachu. Be my guest. I like Pikachu, but you know. Man, this is tough. It is. It is. So I'm going to kind of go off the wall here because he's one of my favorite characters in a series that we don't talk enough about, but is really, really popular. Mr. Tom Nook from Animal Crossing. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Come on, man. Not a bad pick. Not a bad pick at all. Especially if people are trying to judge our list based on who makes the most money. I mean Mario Vash just did, but Pikachu don't make any money. No, Pikachu doesn't. Tom Nook. Yeah. But he's practically a thief. Don't forget, don't forget Link. He was charging you for everything. Doing other stuff. Yeah, right? He's breaking into the Tom Nook store. Yeah. Yeah, right? Right? Oh, gosh. Hmm. I see two names that kind of jump out at me right now. And I think I'm actually going to have to go with Fox McCloud. Fox McCloud. So why do you go with the Foxy? It's between two of them. Well, you don't tell me the other one. Why Fox? Why Fox? I think it's just a little bit more popular pick right now. I'm hoping that my other one's going to be there in either this next round here or the round after that. So I don't know. It's possibly risky, but you know. Okay. So I'm looking at the list here. Part of me is thinking, you know, maybe a little Pouser action. You know, maybe go Luigi. Try to go Team Green. Link, Luigi. Yeah. Yeah. You know, just look for all the green characters. You know, King K ruled. But I don't think a solid color is going to get it done. If I have a color coordinated team. Right. Don't think that's enough. I never know. People might like green and go off of that. Don't think that's enough. So I've got to go. I've got to go with my main man. The Professor Oak. Ah. Okay, okay.  He's really one of those useless characters, but he's so iconic. He is. I'm basically going off iconic status between the TV show and the games. Professor Oak. Yep. Not a bad pick at all. Um, I think a little high for me, but you know, that's just me. I'm looking at your team. Mario Pikachu, Fox, Samus, Aran next. And then what? Actually. Donkey Kong. And then what? You know me too well. I know you too well. Let me guess. Here it comes. Here it comes. Give it to me. I know you're taking her. Yeah, actually I was. That wasn't actually the other pick that I was thinking of, but I actually actually So clarify for our audience who you've taken. Samus. Samus Aran. Of course. Well, right now I've got like the Mario, the most popular Nintendo character. Pikachu, the most popular Pokemon. Fox McCloud, which people just like him a lot. Like he's just iconic. Samus Aran from another iconic role. And I got Link, Tom no Confessor Oak. Nothing's wrong with Link. No. Oh, Tom no Confessor Oak. Yep. No, I don't like this. I don't like this. But see, that's the thing. You're like going with the popular choices. I think I'm going more with a well rounded team that can compete multiple tasks. Right, okay. But I do have to do this just because it is my favorite. Charizard is on my team. Gotta happen. In fact, I basically included Charizard on this list because I knew I wanted to draft him. Whether I got a chance to draft him, I don't know.  Yeah, more than likely. I mean popularity-wise, but whatever. Charizard should be the main Pokemon that never changes. Not Pikachu. Right. Although Pikachu's changed too. Oh gosh. Now, do I come back with one of my favorite characters of all time? Yeah, I think because you just took yours, I better take mine before you swipe in and take them. Mr. DK. Donkey Kong? Yeah. Okay. So I got a little Donkey Kong action. He was one, I was actually thinking about taking him before Charizard, but I was like, I don't think you're going to take Charizard yet, but I had to go in for the kill. This means that I got to keep going with the oddball mascots. Okay. I got to give that little pink puffball action. Mr. Kirby. Ooh, that is a good pick right there. See, I love Kirby. There it was. I told you. I'm kind of upset because Wisconsin linebacker TJ went to Pittsburgh and we were hoping to go to the Packers in Round 2, but it's all good. So Mr. Kirby, he, obviously, we love him in Smash Bros. What we love is games. Unfortunately, again, Kirby's not a very popular series, so I'm kind of going with the fact that we have a smaller audience that respects everything. Plus, we used to be the Zeldinformer YouTube channel, so I'm kind of hoping that that link action drags him over. Anyways, don't just roll for me. Go ahead. You can go ahead and roll for me because the link is fine. Who cares about the rest of my team? Come on. Come on. I know I'm mad right now. It is what it is. I know. Getting down here. What do you got? I don't know. What do you got? Let's see. I think. Oh, God. That's staring me in the face. That's staring me in the face. Let's go with Captain Falcon. Captain Falcon. The Falcon Punch. My team's going to Falcon Punch you right in the face. Oh, yeah, whatever. Who gets hit by a Falcon Punch? Get out of here. Everyone's going to fly off the stage. Oh, my God. Bad players flying off the stage. So I got to do it. And I know this is going to, you know, this will play well if we have a big Japanese audience, but we don't. We have a big United States audience, which means this is probably a bad pick, but I'm relying on the irony of how much I look like him and I'm picking Tingle. Okay. Yeah.  That's me. Well. In a nutshell, I have children. I was going to say, you are kind of a fairy. I have kids. I guess you can still be a fairy. I don't know. Anyways, I, I'm pretty, that's my, I feel like that's my riskiest pickup taken because I know how hated this character is. I'm hoping that it's like the irony of the hate comes back to life. Right, right. Comes back to life. Because I'm looking at your team. My God, you just have like crowd favorites. All right. I got to find a new strategy. Can't go for crowd favorites. Okay. We still have a long ways to go. Oh, so the back half of my draft might be what does it for me. The back half drafting for the win. Oh, let's see. Well, I think I'm going to have to do with what I was planning on doing last time that I didn't go with. And I'm going to go with Luigi. No. I was taking him next. It wasn't because of team green either. I just wanted those superior Mario brothers. Right. You can't believe you took Luigi.  That throws a wrench in my plans. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. I don't I'm honestly. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Donkey Kong. I'm honestly at a loss. I'm looking at this list. You know, I'm hoping I'm hoping I get a little love here because he you've got you've got like the ultimate hero female to get that female vote on your side. Right. And Samus Aran. It's so hard to compete with her. Right. I have titles on this list. Right. So I have to just just to kind of even things out of it. I'm taking Peach. Oh, that's that's happening. Peach is a very popular character, at least in my household. Yeah. Everyone liked playing with Peach or was told. But yeah, whatever. Told it's pretty cool too. That's actually where I thought you were going. No. It's not where I thought I was going to go either. And I'm like, no, I have to. Right. Because no, I can't let Peach and Mario be on the same team. It's over. It's game over. Peach and Mario. Same team. So what do we got? Oh, let's see here. I think I am now going to have to probably go with, even though I've never actually played the game, I am actually going to go with Captain Olimar. Okay. Not a bad pick. Remember folks, he's never played the game. Remember, you can use any creature you want to vote for. So choosing characters of games he's never played. Yeah. But the fact that I know who he is. I guess that it is impressive for you since it's not an old generation game per se. Gamecube. Yeah. Okay. It's not bad. It's not bad. I mean, again, another iconic character of Nintendo IP. Yep. See how you're building your roster. I'm going for the powerhouse team, man. Oh, you want to go. You want to talk powerhouse. It's time to go for the king of evil himself, Mr. Ganondorf. Ah. Try Force of Power on my side. I was thinking, do I really want any enemies on my team? Like any bad guys. Right, right.  Sometimes you got to go bad to win. Right. And even though I really, I'm okay. I can't say this because it'll make people not like me. So for now, I'm just going to go with the king of evil. Ganondorf. I have an opinion. No, you can definitely go ahead and say whatever you were going to say. That's why I'm here. No, it's okay. I'll save it for another time. Okay. Okay. Let's see. I think you made a dang good pitch for female characters. So. I know. I think I'm going to have to go with Princess Zelda. No. You turd. I was going to take her next. So I had the full triforce on my team. Yup. Sorry, I had to slip into that. I should not have said anything about peach. Grab that one. That makes me upset. That really does. Okay. Well, man. You know, I'm going to go on the hype level here because Xenoblade Chronicles is supposedly coming out this year. We've been told. So I'm going to go with Shulk, the star from the original Xenoblade Chronicles. Okay. Okay. I don't know how popular of a character he is overall with Nintendo, but I like that game. Yeah. So JRPG. There was a whole group of people, Operation Rainfall to even get the games over here because Nintendo wasn't going to release it here. So. Shulk, baby. Probably good thing they did. Well, obviously it was a good thing. Of course, they did exclusively a GameStop bad move. Yeah. Anyways. Oh, let's see. Again, I'm kind of torn between two here. Um, so... I think... Where was my other one? Oh, yeah. They're okay. They're right there. I think... I'm going to have to go with Falco on this one. Of course. I see. I thought about taking Falco because you already had Fox. Yup. He's like, oh, he's more popular, Falco or Fox. Um, but again, this doesn't have to be a popularity contest, so... Yeah, no, I don't. It's fine. Yeah. So, you know, continuing my theme of baddies, I'm obviously going to have to take Bowser. Yeah, that's... You have the Mario Brothers, and I need... Good. I need the person who always opposes them, even though he always loses. But, you know, this isn't a... This is whatever competition you want to be. That'll work well on your team. He wins a Mario Kart. Team at Loser. Alright, Cloudy pushes you off the course. Yeah, yeah. So, it depends how you guys want to determine these lists. So, that'll be good for your team, a team of losers. Whatever. That is true again, in North Bowser. Tingle.  Right. Oh, God. I didn't even realize how bad this team is. It's okay. You're a team of like guys that get games that no one cares about outside of Mario and Pokemon. Yeah. Like the last Star Fox game. Yeah. It wasn't so good for Mr. Fox McCloud. Yeah, well... Mr. Falcon, do you remember the last time he had a game? No. And I don't mean Smash. No, yeah, yeah.  Why can't I think of the game? Wow. And Pikmin's not exactly super popular either. Ramcheck just won. But hey, Luigi. That's okay. Ramcheck's not in this draft. No, I know. But... Mr. Luigi, one thing I like about him is he does have his own spin-off now with the Mansion series. Yeah. That's pretty good. Yeah. I almost like that better than the Mario games. Yeah. So, back to the draft here. Sorry. No, no, no. We're good. We're good. It's a good discussion. Right. I think this is going to be an interesting pick. But I'm going to go with the Villager here. Villager? Okay. Okay. Now, technically, there was no name for this character before Smash Bros. gave him the name Villager. Obviously, we're talking about the main character for Animal Crossing, that you are in the very first Animal Crossing that is. So, I'll just give you kind of an idea of what the character is. Because now, there's a ability to modify them a little bit and customize them. The original, the Villager.  I got to admit. So, I'm just going to keep continuing that the villain love. I'm going with Andross. Okay. Again, I know not a lot of people might know who he is. Main enemy, and the Star Fox 64. And obviously, the reboot that I'm trying not to mention because people don't like it. For Wii U. Yeah. You had no problem mentioning it with BiPak. Of course I did. Just remember people. He did mention it. It's okay. Oh gosh. Even losers got to win once. Definitely. Even a blind scroll finds none. Let's go with, I think I'm going to round out the Pokemon with Mewtwo. Popular, popular, popular. That's okay. I figured you were going to take Mewtwo eventually. I kind of left him floating out there because like, I don't want him. You can have him kind of thing. Okay. So, thanks for taking him. Okay. Because I got to continue my enemy theme. It's King K. Rule Time. Okay. The King K. Rule. Again, another failure who can't beat Donkey Kong. But it's okay. Because we're uniting so much failure together that it equals a win. Ah, that's right. Okay. Okay. Now it gets interesting because there's no more enemies left. Right. Right. Now I have to. We're getting up to the end. Yeah, we are. We are. I think I'm actually going to go. I know what you're going to take. What? I can't say it all out. What pit? No. No? Oh, well that's who I'm going to take. Dang it. Dang it. Mr. Pit. Obviously fantastic pick. This is tough. These last four are probably equal. But I'm going to go out there because I know you're not going to take it, which I know means I probably shouldn't. I'm going to go ahead and take Dr. Kawashima from Brain Age. Okay. Because after my team gets wrecked in this voting, it's going to need a doctor to help it out. I've got a professor. I've got a doctor. Yeah, yeah, hey. But also you've got to remember that like one thing I like about Dr. Kawashima is it's a dark horse. Because when Brain Age came out, I was like, oh, whatever, whatever. It was one of the it was like the first title to blow up the Nintendo DS. So I'm kind of relying on it. It's like a dark horse. Yeah. How many people even remember who he is? Yeah. And when once you realize who he is and the game is from Brain Age, by the way, that you might start realizing, yeah, I had a lot of fun with that game. That's a good pick.  You never know. You got to be bold, Eric. Your team's to vanilla. Yeah. Yeah. It might be extremely vanilla. So speaking of vanilla, I think I'm going to go with another absolute vanilla character with Mr. Game and Watch. That's not that vanilla.  Did you ever play any of the Game and Watch games? No. No, I really haven't. Again, folks, another character he's never played. Just throwing that out there. I have, by the way. Which is why I'm disappointed because I actually was going to pick him next. So I got to go... There's a lot of Fire Emblem happening lately.  And I'm going to rely on the popularity of a certain Fire Emblem character from Fire Emblem Awakening and some other games. Mr. Crom. Okay. You know, I'm surprised he actually lasted this long because so much Fire Emblem going on out there. Yeah. I had to go for it. Yeah, no. Not a terrible pick. Oh, let's see. How am I going to... I think I'm going to have to round out his squad. Talking about Fox McLeod's squad with Slippy. Just a few to address. So that leaves me with the final pick in the draft. See, I thought I'll put 31 characters on there so it'll actually be a pick at the end. But I get Mr. Rosetti. Ah, yeah. I'm not too happy with Mr. Rosetti. I love him in Animal Crossing but it's just like... It's just not a character I really care to have on my team.  I have... If it was bottles, I would. I don't care. It's not a bottle. I know. I have a mole on my team. It's going to be cheating and helping your team come ahead. Yeah. So, a rundown of the final rosters. Here's Eric's team.  Oh, good God. I got to come up with a name for my team. Put me on the spot. Yeah, thanks. It's okay. I'm thinking over here to myself. Total domination? Is that what you're going with? Sure, why not? Total domination. So we're with Eric's total domination team. All right. Just writing this down. It's just notes for me. So my team right now, let me see. Oh, I have a hard time getting off of this one name.  But I feel like I can do better. I got to go with it. I'm leaning heavily on my leader. This is, my team is called Link's Paradise. Ah! Nice. Link, I'm lying on you, buddy. You better take me home. So I figured, Link gets to chill out with Ganondorf. It never happens. Yeah. He's always trying to get in Zelda. Who cares? Yeah. Well, anyway, so it's all good. Yeah. You know, he's got Peach as a side dish. Right. Right. You know, he's got the professor who can give him his favorite Pokemon Charizard. Yeah. You know, a little Tom Nook action. So he's a store to go and break all the pots. Yeah. Yep. You know, he's got a little Kirby. I don't know. It's kind of like his replacement for Naby. Uh-huh. He's got a little annoying ball in the corner. But he has uses. Yeah. He has a little sidekick and shulk. It's like the character at the bar that he just hooks up with. And everyone's like, hey, man, let's have a few and talk about the days if he used to kick ass. Yeah. You know, Bowser, I don't really know. He's just that turtle. Yeah. He didn't really, I don't know. Maybe he's a chill with Ganondorf. Yeah. I don't know what's going on. Peach is on my team. Maybe they're going to come up and make a plan. And Amdross is just like that God figure in the sky that looks like, yeah, I printed the Triforce to fly to that thing someday. Yeah.  Except for FoxbyCloud. It's slippy. Yep. Anyways. King K rule. I don't really know. That doesn't really fit in with my, the doctor is just there for emergency cases. Yeah. Chrom is just really cool.  So, yeah. Link's Paradise. I just went all over the roster on my team for total domination. Why don't you go over your roster quick? Oh, let's see. I have Mario Pikachu, FoxbyCloud, Samus Aran, Donkey Kong, Captain Falcon. Luigi, which again, I'm surprised, slipped that far. Captain Olimar, Princess Zelda, Felco, The Villager, Mewtwo, Pit, Mr. Game and Watch, and Slippy. So Vanilla. So Vanilla. That's the thing. Vanilla is silky smooth. Everyone likes it. It is. So, yeah. Again, there'll be a link down in the description for you to vote on which team you think is best at whatever thing you want to pit it up against. Again, I've made a pretty strong case for my very out there team, and you've made zero case for your very Vanilla team. I don't have to. My team speaks for itself. Please. Please. Chop, please. All right. So that ends the draft segment. Hope you guys enjoyed. Hope it was a little entertaining, like all the trash talk.


One of the highlights of our program, when compared to traditional MBA programs, is that we offer our students the opportunity to work on real life projects with real life companies looking to enter a market overseas. What makes this MBA experience really different is that this is not a study trip. In actual fact we are working with New Zealand companies trying to help them enter an overseas market. So we work with real problems and helping those New Zealand companies build competences that other ways they would not have. I believe there are so many advantages to have such a hands-on learning approach. First of all students work in a team. Teamwork is becoming so important in today's global business world and will make them more employable. Another dimension about this team approach is that every project is unique and in a way students feel that they really learn and contribute to a New Zealand company. I think the entire journey of an executive MBA is to really step up and understand how you can grow in leadership, how you can get context for what you're going through, both in a learning journey but also as a professional. What students are using is the entrepreneur approach. What we try to do is to teach how to do business within conditions of uncertainty. And for us we've set ourselves a very ambitious schedule. Every moment of our time is taken up with the things that we want to do. There's a lot of taste testing and store observations and things like that. We just want to make sure that we can get everything done and then draw out the data to make some really awesome insight for them. I haven't done a lot of international business, it's not been my history. I'd really like to learn more about the difficulties, the challenges, but the course is also delivering on solutions. So teaching me how that I can use various techniques, frameworks to overcome the challenges that I certainly expect to see in China. Well just in trying that entrepreneurial approach, often we don't get that in a corporate environment so getting to test that and play with that I think is really useful. I'm in the Air Force so this is very different to my normal working life and that's one of the reasons why I chose to do this program is to get a bit of an exposure to sort of the more corporate and commercial world. I'm most excited to just get on the ground, learn some stuff, put some learning into practice and actually see how theory plays out in a practical environment in China. Businesses in New Zealand are very small and they need to have an agile tour that allows them to rapidly change their strategy. Having the sort of confidence where things are unpredictable and uncertain, that there is a bit of process now to work through that with some idea of success, the experience will be golden tackling any opportunity before and even recommending to other people want to tackle other markets. Well I hope that my next role will have an international business component to it so I think it will prepare me really well for I guess looking to set up businesses and other markets and we really I guess will follow an entrepreneurial process for this trip. Our students have a lot of management experience, they have middle to senior management positions but there's a benefit to have a project such as ours. They can explore a new industry, they understand to work in a team and also in a very different context. It gives me a bit of credibility in the business arena that I might not normally have. Hopefully I go for my career, there's opportunities where there are things that we do offshore and just being aware of how firstly other people do business in other countries and how you might take a product there and minimise risk in doing so. So these type of things are really hard to learn from a textbook, that's the reason why we give students the opportunity to work with a real company with real issues in real time. I think we've got huge value out of it, it's quite an intense process, they achieved amazing amount in really quite a short time frame. Our students are actually already very successful professionals and where it really adds value is they're being thrown into an ambiguous, uncertain environment and finding out quickly how to find their feet and add real value.


Welcome to Spotlight Advanced. I'm Bruce Gulland. And I'm Liz Wade. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. It was 1191. Duke Leopold V of Austria was in a battle. After the battle he took his cloth coat off. It was covered in blood from the battle. But there was one stripe of white on his coat. It was white underneath the belt he was wearing around his waist. He liked the design. So he made this design into a flag. It was red with a white stripe in the middle. It became the official design of the Austrian flag in the year 1919. And it is still Austria's flag today. Not every flag has such an exciting story in its history. But flags often do tell their own stories. They show meaning and inspire people. Today's spotlight is on flags. People who study history believe that the first people to use flags lived in ancient Egypt. Egyptians made the first flags by tying long pieces of cloth to the end of very long poles. They carried these long poles when they fought in battles. They believed that their flags would please their gods and help them win the battles. Flags were also very useful. One soldier had the special job of carrying the flag. Generals watched the flag to know where their soldiers were. Flags also showed which way the wind was blowing. This helped soldiers aim their arrows. But flags had an even more important purpose in battle. Flags were a sign of the people. A flag showed other people who was fighting in a battle. Each group fighting in a battle carried a different colour flag. After a time, other cultures also began to use flags. And they added more than just colour. Flag designers started to put important pictures on the flags. These pictures or symbols on the flags represented ideas, people or gods. Kings put their symbols on flags. When a king sent his people to battle, his enemies could see his symbol. They knew which king was attacking. Most flags use a common set of symbols. People have used these symbols for a very long time. For example, when you see a star on a flag, it usually represents unity. The number of stars on a flag may tell how many parts of something are united in some way. Other flags use symbols from nature, like leaves, trees or animals. Some flags use religious symbols like crosses. Many Christian groups use a cross on their flags. Most flags are shaped like rectangles or long squares. But some are square, like the flag of Switzerland. And flags are not just for countries. Groups like the United Nations, the Red Cross and the European Union all have flags. Countries, states, cities and even some small people groups have flags. But why are all these different flags needed? Flags are very good at communicating messages. But flags do not communicate with language. They do not need words to send a message. Instead, flags communicate with colours, symbols and design. A person can read the message of a flag just by looking at it. Each flag's colour, symbols and design represent the people, government, land or ideas in a country or group. Think about your flag. You probably know what the colours and symbols on your flag mean. Here are a few examples of how flags use symbols and colour to send their messages. The symbol on the Lebanese flag is a cedar tree. The cedar tree is a very popular tree in Lebanon. The flag tells other people that this is an important tree in Lebanon. Flags also represent values and ideas by using colour. The flag of Libya is only one colour. It is green. But this colour represents an important idea for the people of Libya.  Islam is Libya's national religion. The green flag tells people who do not live in Libya that many people in Libya practice Islam. Flags may also use similar colours or designs to show unity with other nations around them. Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica all use the colours blue and white in their flags. Before 1838, these countries were joined together as the United Provinces of Central America. When they separated, each country chose a new flag design. But each new flag design was a version of the old design. These five separate South American flags all have a white stripe between two blue stripes. The white stripe represents land, and the blue stripes represent two oceans. But each flag has different symbols on it, so the flags look similar, but they are all very different. Flags can also represent a group of countries that share a common goal or interest. Imagine the flag of the Olympic Games. The Olympic flag is white. It has no borders. In the middle there are five circles. They are blue, black, red, yellow and green. The circles are linked together. There are five continents that take part in the Olympic Games. And each circle represents a continent. When people see the Olympic flag, they see the message of the Olympics. They see that every continent is equal, and they see that the Olympic Games encourage unity. Flags can also tell a part of the history of a country or group. An example of this is the story about Austria's flag from the beginning of this program. On a flag, colour, symbol and design combine to make something very meaningful. Flags are often a symbol for a country. When a person is proud of their country, their leader or their group, they are happy to show people their flag. Flags unite people across a country and sometimes around the world.  Sometimes people will even die to protect and preserve a flag that sends a message they believe in. It is good for people to think about what they stand for and believe in. A flag is a very powerful thing. What does your flag represent? Do you think it is a good description of your country? What is your favourite flag? Tell us what you think. You can leave a comment on our website or email us at radio at radioenglish.net. You can also comment on Facebook at facebook.com slash spotlight radio. The writer of this program was Liz Wade. The producer was Michio Ozaki. The voices you heard were from the United Kingdom and the United States. All quotes were adapted for this program and voiced by Spotlight. You can listen to this program again and read it on the internet at www.radioenglish.net. This program is called The Message of the Flag. Visit our website to download our free listening app for Android and Apple devices. We hope you can join us again for the next Spotlight program. Goodbye!


Hello, I'm Professor Stephen Neshevet, and this is the Assignment and Preview video. This is the video that's going to tell you what you need to do to get ready for, before coming to class. So here's what you need to do. What I would like you to do is watch videos one and two that have been prepared for you for this, and and of course the video that you're watching right now. On the second video, there are two parts if you recall, the first part was identifying a problem or question that would be suitable for a flipped classroom project. I would like you to come up with two candidates for that, and write down in your notebook what those two candidates are, and make sure that you write down whether, and to what extent those two candidates satisfy the five criteria for a good flipped classroom topic are, and what will happen is that you'll come into class, and at some point in the class we'll solve, we'll actually tackle part two, which is solving the problems of one of those two, and discussing and maybe comparing notes on that. So your your pre-lab is to take the second video, grapple with part one, two, two problems. Okay.


Hello everyone, my name is Liang Yan. I'm here to give you a session about in April, WGPU in Firecracker. And I'm really excited to do this presentation here. Enjoy. So before we start, I'll just give you some introduction, for example to myself. So I'm a virtualization engineer from SUSEA. So my working area is mainly focused on the IO virtualization, GPU and network before. And architecture only focused on ARM64 and S390, the 9x86 architecture. And also as you know, SUSEA dropped OpenStack Cloud last year and purchased the Rancher this year. So we had some transition. I started working on the Firecracker here and I like this stuff. And also I work at home for four years now. I think I know most of you are also working at home because of the coronavirus pandemic. I hope you can enjoy your work at home timing. And I live in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. So usually people don't know it. I just say, this is the hometown of Abraham Lincoln. People still don't know it. Then Mohammed Ali, maybe still. Then I said, just Kentucky Friday Chicken, KFC. Now they know it. So sounds like people enjoy food better than sports, better than politics. Anyway, this is just a joke. So let's back into today's topic. So for today, I'm going to give you a quick background about the micro-VM backtrack here and also give you some introduction about GPU utilization, especially some latest update and also the motivation. Why do we want to do it? And how do we do it? What should we do? Since this is a journey, exploration journey, so I'll share some thoughts after that. So at last would be the QE part, but you can type in your question from our platform, the chat platform. So I would be glad to answer. So let's have a quick look on the micro-VM here. I think it's not a strength for you guys. And for me, I also followed this topic for a couple of years. There's a lot of a cop option here, like QMU-Lite, QMU-Lite, AMU or QMU-Micro-VM last year from last year. This is QMU-based and a Firecracker, Rust-VMM-based, but it's earlier than Rust-VMM. Anyway, and also some other like process level, the API, like a G-Wiser here, so it's not my intention here, so we just keep it. If you look at those VMs here, you may see something in common, like they're not considered as VM, but more like a container. And they also work as a container. There's only like one, maybe one workload under it and a very short life cycle. And just need it is safe and the architecture is light, the running is fast. Here's architecture for Firecracker. You could see it's highly integrated with container here. And I think that's the many uses for them too, for the micro-VM. And we'll take a quick look to the GPU side. So I think a GPU, everyone using GPU today, but looking at the GPU, you may see there's too many uses for it, graphic and computing, graphic like the game streaming, 3D rendering, and the computing is more like a popular today because of the AI machine learning. And you know that there's two different types for this kind of machine learning, the training, a model based on the huge data sets and the inference. Like you already have this trend model just to do some judgment. So, and then the GPU virtualization and I think a lot of people already done this topic from a low level and we couldn't know that, like you can see pass through, GPU pass through, that's a basic one. And there is also a full GPU virtualization and there's a thought of the way to do it, MDV, mediated device, Intel and NVIDIA doing it. There's a hard way like FRROV and AMD did it, but NVIDIA is also jump to it too. And ARM, ARM also, so you can see here, this is the 800 that's announced this May. And you can see there, this model is this GPU actually FRROV based. And one interesting part is that it could also be used for a code application directly. So, and the user case is like, you can use it in a container. So it looks like all about container today. And ARM, ARM is pretty new and they just announced its GPU virtualization solution last month, I think. And the interesting part is it's a user case. They are mostly working using, used for vehicle autonomous driving and basically for this automotive enhancement. And this is a new user case because of the training and inference scenario there. And it's kind of interesting to make things. Anyway, so they also have, and based on the architecture here, it also looks hardware based. And yeah, there's also other GPU. I've been working very closely with all those when there's in through the, like an NVIDIA ARM and also AMD Intel and then even some other hardware accelerator like FPGA and neural NPU like a GPU some stuff there. So, but we are talking about the GPU here. So let's just focus on here. And now comes to the motivation. Why do we want to do it? Like, I guess, generally because people want it, it's quite popular for AI and machine learning today. And some people just want more from Vycracker. Like, yes, you are wonderful, but why don't you provide this more? Now the other side is about the GPU virtualization. Like we could see that, IO virtualization has actually become the powerful, more powerful now. And it has its own virtualization capability and we see independent with the general VMM. And like we just saw the 800 there, like you could adjust to use its VGPU for application. So that's a good case. And also people are talking about it in, in Vycracker, the GitHub is here, like a couple here and generally people want it, but there's some conflict here. Like because Vycracker has its specific purpose, mainly for the thoroughness computing. And so in this case, they may need to run tons of workloads in a host. In that case, they want the oversubscription and also they want a better performance during the workload suites. And VGPU virtualization may seem not good, but anyway, I'll just show you how to do it here. Like I said, I just knew to Firecracker and Rust VMM stuff, but I know VGPU and also QMU. Good part is that most of its work is still reused like the host side, MDV or FROA and is created for the VGPU and we share this. And the KVM side by cracker is still using KVM for it. So don't fart, we don't need to care about it. And we only care about the VMM the part like if we're using the VFIO PTI pass through. Basically, VMM just needed to create a PTI device based on the host information by like accessed by VFIO function here. And the other part is that Cloud Hypervisor, this is a project based on Rust VMM. It implemented VFIO banding and the VFIO CTLs. I think that makes the whole process much easier, doable. From here, the VFIO banding is kind of a thermo head fires automatically generated by the band gen. And you can see there's a thermo head fires for the function definition from the KVM or host side. And the VFIO CTLs is the mainly implementation. So now things get clearly and easier. So what I did here, as I said earlier, I'm working on the GPU processing. So I have a lot of fancy hardware here, the VGPU, every year we handle Intel GPU and I also have this old AMD GPU here. And I'm working on based on the 315HP2 OF here and also running the VMM. So from my thought, I think I just, I needed to run through with the Cloud Hypervisor. That would make things easier. Like if it could work and if not, what's the problem? After that, I can just back part or refactor to the fire tracker. So things are pretty clear. And during my try on Cloud Hypervisor, I found most of them could work only like a VGPU. It's like once I passed the MDV inside it couldn't get through. So looks something wrong with the GPU driver during my debugging. But I'll follow that later. But anyway, I mainly use the Intel with GPU here because it's open source from either side. And now back to all these, like I checked how Cloud Hypervisor make it work. And in order to that, I need these kind of a queries here. We have our bonding and we have IOCTRs. This is the two main queries here for implementation and also need a PCI. As you know, fire tracker only has this MMM IO bus. So we needed to implement this PCI bus there. And then just some VMM like we needed to follow the whole process and then implement it in fire tracker. And also need some dependencies like the VM device, device manager and the VM locker and the full PCI implementation. I probably moved a much more codes here because I just as the first step, I just make it work. Then I can get through all the codes carefully. And also there are some other things like because over the GPU, the Thabetic over the GPU, we need some of the UFI for some of the bus, we both set up. Otherwise it will have the driver issue later. And also the kernel configuration, the original configuration is quite simple. And but we needed to involve extra modules for just to enable the graphic driver. And yeah, I plan to put all the code here, but that's really not necessary. And if you do that, you may see another benefit for the Rust is like the whole device create, it's much easier than the QOM model back in QMU. So what I'm doing here is like during the fire tracker, I first the parameters here, I just catch this device comes with the pass over the device. Like if you use the MDV, it becomes a UID number. And also if just a virtual function, it would be just the PTI numbers there. And then during the VM initialization, I needed to create this PTI bus. And then I needed to do, I needed to use the VFIO to create PTI devices. So I needed to access the hosting device with the device path or ID, you can see. And then it will access to the host CIS virus system and get the group and the device information from host. And then you just use this information to create your VFIO PTI device. And after that, you put it to the PTI bus. And after that, I think it will be detected by the guest we are. So far, even I said, I think I put a much more code here, but it could work with some basic functions and it could be detected by the guest kernel. Although just during the kernel, the driver couldn't work very well. There's a lot of issues like here, the bus table is not available, can't find this one and a lot of our DRM function failures there, the DMAT is kind of a mess. I needed to go through that anyway. So anyway, like I said, this is a journey is plough. So let me just share some thoughts during here. Like during all the back part working, I think it's fine, I like to read in code. But I just feel like during all the working, I'm just one question I'm keep asking, is it a good fit? Because first, the more I back part, the more it needs. Like I needed to back part of this, that and even after that, I the feedback looks quite different. The booting time and the memory footprint, it's bigger and I must have done something wrong. Also, like during the discussion there, so the issues there is still exists like the design fee, lot fee, authorities computing, like since there will be a lot of work load here. And so they want this over subscription and they also want the SWIFT, the SWIFT would be fast and efficient. However, the WGPU scheduler probably would be a concern. I didn't test that because I just test the one we are here, the workload is simple. So with this confusion, I'm just asking, is it a good fit? And so I just step back, like what do we want in the first place? So like fact-correct is for the serverless computing, for sure, and we don't want the graphic, we just want the computing. Even for the computing, we don't want the training because it will last long. We just thinking about the inference. So we still want it a safe, light and fast. So we check back to this working load, like the platform here. Basically, there are just CUDA or OpenCL mainly, like even for the ARM, the ARM NAA, it has its own platform, but eventually it will still use the OpenCL driver for GPU side. So maybe things would be easier thinking in another way. Like maybe we create a word CUDA here or word OpenCL, no matter what. So we can create it as the word ML device, and it's only for the general compute and the design based on the driver API, and then use the way ring to transparent to the host side. And so we don't have those concerns anymore, like the memory pin and the huge, complicated machine configuration and the kernel configuration. So maybe, so I think I'll probably working on it. There's already started the initial work here. Another way is, it occurs to me is that about the 800 MIG, that it could be used directly by container. So I did some research back there and I thought maybe I can reuse some idea about the NVIDIA container. But no, NVIDIA container is like a mount, the hosted driver into the container image, the container root file system. So it's different with the machine scenario. But maybe it's still thinking about another device type or like VFIO, MIO, I don't know. But yeah, I'll keep thinking. So for this whole journey, I'm thinking like some questions like could we do it? Sure, but should we? That depends. Like here, like a VGPU in Firecracker, it may be a very good fit, like because it's a better user case for Firecracker. But if we jump out of this scenario, thinking about the arm, the terminus driving there, that's a different scenario. Like maybe we, the workload maybe not that heavy, but we still want some GPU computing here. And still we still want it like a safe light first. So this may be a good match. So yeah, so that's totally depend on how you want to use it. So thank you for this one. I will still implement it eventually, even not for Firecracker. Maybe design a new VMM based on the Rust VMM, like just for some VGPU scenario or AI machine learning scenario, that would be fine. But I really needed to optimize the code carefully. Or just we discussed earlier, just to use a different device model. I think it's doable. I also did some research here. Some people, some paper from school already implemented it with a different way. Here we just needed to do it with Rust and KVM. One thing is I think that the API dependency would need to be really careful. We don't want this kind of API hair. And I think if it has both ways and we do a overall comparison would be interesting. I think maybe next year I'll share some upstate even with upstream. And the last thing is that, yeah, I think I like the Rust VMM very much, especially for a created device. It's much easier than QOM if you know what I mean. And I think that's it. So if you have questions and typing from the chat channel or email me. So anyway, thank you so much for your time. And it's really exciting. It's my honor to present here. Thanks.


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