My name is Krista and welcome to the Hots Hall Instagram live tour. So we're going to start off just by showing you what's around outside right here. So we'll look this way. We have Garland parking garage, which is the main parking lodge on this side of campus, and then a couple things below it. And that like strip mall kind of deal is the small mark, which is just a small Walmart and the bookstore where you'll be able to get books, razorback merchandise, things like that. And then to the right of the Garland parking garage is full bright dining hall. It's going to be your closest dining hall. If you're living right here, it'll be a quick walk. So that's really nice and convenient. And then Northwest quad is right next door. And then down the sidewalk, there's another meal. There's a meal trade option here on campus. That's on this side of campus. So that's really nice and convenient. Super windy outside. So we're going to go ahead in and keep going on with the tour. Looks like we are joined by Talita coordinator for residence education. So you see me a lot and I'll join you out today. Alrighty, so we're going to keep on moving this way. So right over here is just a big kind of community space. As you can see, there's ping pong table, pool table, and there's a kitchen back here as well. Any supplies or equipment that you need to check out for the ping pong table, pool table in the kitchen, you can check out at the front desk. There should be someone there most of the day to hand that out to you. It'll be like an RA. And then let's take a moment to introduce Emily. Oh yes, behind the camera we have the lovely Emily. Hi everyone, I'm Emily. I'm a marketing intern for university housing and go ahead and tell us where you're tuning in from. Did you use the kitchen at all when you were here? I did use it a couple of times. I do remember fondly there was a program that one of our RA's put on. There's a griddle that you can check out and they brought out a griddle and made us like pancakes just to show that there was like a griddle available, but we got free pancakes. So that was a really fun little program and a lot of people came actually and just hung out things like that at the beginning of the year. So a lot of programs will go on in the beginning of the year with your RA's and just getting to know people live on your floor and people in the building. So that's really fun. So that's something I do remember doing in the kitchen. So how do you take your pancakes? There's a way to take your pancakes. Maple syrup, lots of butter, cream butter. Okay. An obscene amount of butter. Barb says she's tuning in from Northwest Arkansas in wine. I think that's okay. Polly says she's joining from Overland Park, Kansas and Suzanne has a question about the kitchen. She notices that there isn't a stove top. Could they bring a hot plate and keep it in the kitchen? That's a question for our hall director. Do you happen to know if they could, could they bring that in? Not in the rooms. I know they can't have that in their rooms, right? The hot plates. Yeah, I believe you can bring it in. You just can't use it in your room. We don't allow any open flames, but we do have a lot of checkout equipment. We don't have this stove, but we do have a small kind of oven that you can use as well. So, yeah, hopefully that answers your question. Stina asked, is there a toaster or a toaster oven available in the kitchen? Let's just go in the kitchen. Yeah, let's just go look around the kitchen there. See the refrigerator. Yeah, so we have a refrigerator. We have this, which is really nice. You can do your toast here as well. We have a big full sink here. And then we also have a nice microwave. So those are the things we have in the kitchen. We also have check-in equipment that you can use if you don't want to bring your own kitchen utensils and equipment. So you can check that out at the front desk. I noticed a lot of cup of noodles. Yeah, cup of noodles, are you guys? Barb asks, can air fryers be used in the kitchen? They can be used. I believe they can be used in the kitchen, not in your room. So make sure you don't have that in your room. No open flame. Air fryers is also one of them. So I'm sorry. Yeah, so we'll continue with two. All right, we'll keep on going. Probably one of my favorite rooms in Hots Hall. So I didn't say that, but I actually lived here when I was a freshman. So I have very fond memories. Obviously, I was talking about the programs and stuff. So you probably could have inferred. But this is the theater room. So you got really, really comfy chairs, a huge TV, really nice space to just kind of hang out with your friends or stuff like that. People will come in here. I've seen people bring like pizza and just chill and watching movies. The Bachelor run is on. You can do that. Bachelor of Paradise will probably be moving coming on when you're here. So it'll be nice to do like watch parties or something like that in here. Just really kind of cool space and all the lights are out. It's really nice. Are you a Mario Kart player? Mario Kart? Yeah, Mario Kart Smash Bros. This TV is huge.  And you can just hook right up to it. And we'll keep on going this way. And another little special room. Not all the buildings on campus have like a space like this, but this is the music room. And really the main thing in here is the piano. So not all the buildings have a piano. It's a really nice one too. So you can come in here. And then we have a lot of like music majors or something like that. You don't want to go all the way to the fine arts building to go practice. So you can come in here till we're practicing. If you don't want to trek all the way over there because it is a little bit of a walk. And in this room right here, it's newly named the Samuel's room. But I remember it as the letters room because there's big, hot letters in the background. And as we walk in here, we're going to meet some of our honors people. Oh, hey. Hello, I'm Xavier Smith and I'm a graduate assistant in the Honors College. And so just so you know, the Honors College, our goal is to enhance your experience through shared learning. And so I have a couple of people here that are here to talk to you about some of those shared learning experiences that you can get with the Honors College. And so I'll pass it off to Louise here who's with the Futures Hub. Hi, I'm Louise Hancox. I am the director of career innovation with the Honors College. And I'm part of a group of resources, set of resources that is waiting for you here called the Futures Hub. And what is the Futures Hub? It's a group of planning professionals and some resources that you can find at our internal website, honorshub.uark.edu. And the way we conceive of your honors experiences is across the great framework. G for global experiences, R for research, E for engagement, A for academics, and T for trajectory. And I handle the trajectory piece a lot. So when it's time for you to talk about internships, if you want to talk about professional school, grad school, med school, law school, we can help you with all those things here in the Honors College. What else should we talk about here today? I know, here's Peyton. She can talk about some experiences. So, hey all, my name is Peyton Jones. I'm a GA for the Honors College. This is simply the PATH program. And the PATH program is a mentoring and scholarship initiative for underrepresented high school students who come to the University of Arkansas their freshman year. And the PATH program consists of amazing students and diverse students from all around different parts of Arkansas and it allows you to build a community and support system that's necessary for you to be a successful student at the University of Arkansas. Also within the PATH program, we offer different types of programming such as monthly sense, monthly Sunday dinners, as well as for trees. And so now we can move on to programming for the HOTS. Follow me this way. We'll come around this corner so we can talk to Xavier a little bit more about the programming. Oh man, you guys keep sneaking up on me. That's crazy. Anywho, I'm here to talk to you a little bit about some of the Honors College programming that we have here in HOTS Hall. And so as you can see here, we have this lovely patio. Trust me, it's beautiful in the fall with all the leaves and everything. And so that is home to one of our programs called professors and pizza on the patio. And so that's an opportunity for HOTS students and the Honors College students and just students in general to have form connections with faculty from the University of Arkansas and form connections there. And again, like I said, we're here to enhance learning through shared learning experiences. And so there will be a number of different programs that the Honors College will be hosting here in your residence hall but also in Gear Heart Park where the Honors College is located. And so yeah, check out the patio. Is there a particular program you might say that you like a lot? I guess food is a component of it. Of course, there's always food. So in the fall of this year, actually, we will be having our Honors College block party or I guess block party at the age as we like to call it. So the age is the where you need to be. And so we will be having a large block party on this side of campus, but also by Gear Heart Hall and by Pomford Hall.  Again, mingle, have food and also connect with some of our Honors staff in the Futures Hub. And I think we actually have a special message from the Futures Hub about Study Abroad. Luis, did you have something you wanted this year? I did want to just bring up some of the programs that the Futures Hub is going to have for you this fall. We'll have special programs on getting started with Study Abroad so that you can find out when is a great time to study abroad. Just so you know, for freshmen, you can study abroad very quickly. After you have six Honors credits, you'll be ready to apply for our Honors College Study Abroad grants that can assist you with your study abroad as early as perhaps next summer. We'll be doing other workshops here, getting started with internships, introduction to the Honors experience itself. We'll have virtual opportunities and we'll also have in-person opportunities. We have a brand new coffee cart that we're going to roll on over here and we're going to be trying to engage you guys with coffee and donuts too so you can come and talk to us when we arrive with our cart. So hope to see you then. Karen asks if she can watch this later and if it will be taped and put on somewhere else and it will be put on YouTube later and on our IGTV right after the live is over. Any other questions? Or is it? Okay. Awesome. We'll head out and check out the patio. And Christa, what did you study? So I am just graduated in the spring so I have a degree in communication sciences and disorders and I'll be staying here for grad school to get my master's in speech language pathology. So just then you notice me use a little black thing to get into the door. So when you move in you'll get your keys and you'll get what is called a fob. So for all the buildings the residence halls on campus you use fobs to enter so it's 24 hour fob access so nobody can get in unless they have on these fobs so that's just kind of a security thing just kind of note make sure you don't lose your fob does cost a bit of money so make sure you keep on to that. And we'll keep heading this way. So right here is what's called the fishbowl or the computerless computer lab. So that's just another kind of study space. And as you can see there's someone in there right now studying. So of course it's a really awesome study space that people can use. It's also where lead hogs meetings are held. So if any of you are planning on being lead hogs already accepted as lead hogs we're thinking about being lead hogs. What is lead hogs? So lead hogs is a leadership development program that for freshmen usually do it but anybody can do it while you're here at the university and undergrad. And so you meet in your halls with all the other lead hogs and you work on programming building your leadership skills. They bring in speakers to talk to you about all kinds of things just kind of build your kind of professional resume. It's a really good starter for if you want to do any other like student government want to be an RA in the future. It's a really good kind of starting point for that. Tilly do you have any other thoughts about lead hogs? Yeah it's close. She did a wonderful job explaining lead hogs. We do meet over here actually lead hogs get to moving earlier.  You do if you are a freshman you join as a lead hog and then you could become an upperclassman you can join as a lead more which is just a continuation of the lead hogs program. So we really do so. So we can keep going. We get to see where you work right? Yes. Y'all get to think my office. Can I show the mural quick? That's kind of a cool mural and these chairs are really yeah we have a really nice kind of like gaming area here. There's another study room in case you guys want to like study at the room in a more private space we have this area here that you can also use. Right. Down here. So right here is Tolita's office. Hello. Yes. I'm right here. Feel free to come over any time on room one twenty five. Yes. One twenty five and I'm always here. So make sure you pop in and say hi. And then another place of interest right here on the end. Keith, I got it. Is the gym. So Hawks is one of like three buildings that have a gym. And so oh. It's in use right now. During COVID they had time slots that you had to check out. I'm not sure if they're going to do that again. But if they do it's just kind of 50 minute time slots that you'll have to come in and use it. But it's a really nice gym. Obviously you have access to the hyper and the Union Fitness Center as well. But having one of your buildings pretty nice too. 99. Yeah. It was hundred. Oh my fault. My fault. Xavier is everywhere. Every real night. Twenty twenty. Is this part of the honor school? Yeah. Currently. Hello. So I think we're going to go check out laundry next. The front desk. Oh the front desk. Yes. Of course. So here's a front desk of pots right here. We have the lovely Quincy and Ariana here. Working the front desk. So when it's open there'll be RAs here working the front desk just like they are. And you'll come here to check out equipment. Things like that. If you get locked down you'll have your phone with you. You can come down here and ask someone for help that way. Think about Hots. Your packages and your mail will not come here. They will go to Maple South. You can find that address and all that information on the housing website. And also your housing portal will tell you like your mailbox number and all the things like that all the important stuff. But Maple South is just right next door. So it's not too far. But that's kind of something to know. So you'll get your packages in Maple South. Is that, I think that's it for the front desk and things like that like I mentioned before equipment. You can check out there. So we'll come down. This right here is the main trash. Oh, water stations. So there's water stations on every single floor. That's one of them. Refillable water stations. Pretty nice and convenient to have them on every floor. Do you have a water bottle that you use? I do have a water bottle. I have a big water bottle. I'm trying to do a lot better about drinking water. So hopefully I'll stick to that this year. We'll see.  Yeah, it's definitely neat that this summer. And what day did you usually do laundry? So I would do it like in the middle of the week, like a Tuesday or Wednesday at like one when I knew people were in class or just wandering about and they were doing laundry because this is the only laundry room in the building. So if you want to peek in and look around. You want to tell me about laundry alert? Yes, we have an app called laundry alert where it'll tell you which washers and dryers are open at any part, any point during the day. And it'll tell you when your laundry is done and it's a really helpful app to use. And for your laundry, you don't need coins or anything like that.  And then you can use a laundry. So it's no cost of view to you initially to use a laundry. And Shonda had just asked, is it free? So not free technically, but you're paying for it. But it's part of the housing costs inclusive, as they say. Normally I've heard you say Sunday was your night. Sometimes I did it on Sundays, but thinking back on it, Sundays were the busiest days of the week. So I think I usually did it like on Thursdays or Tuesdays when I had shorter days. Oh, yeah. Let's go on up to a floor. We're going to add to floor seven. And just a note for those of you watching, we may lose connection for a second because we're in the elevator. Someone asked, is there space to keep detergent in the laundry room? You can keep your detergent in there. I personally would keep it on hand just because, you know, some people are not nice. But there's definitely tables and stuff like you can fold your laundry while you're in the laundry room. So you don't have to, you don't have to store it in there, but you can. Are you on team pods? I am on team pods, yes. I used to have pods religiously. Shonda asks, did you say the laundry room is open 24-7? Yes. And Polly asks, how many students are in hots? I think Tolita said 460. So. I think she's up here. We'll ask her when we run into her, isn't she? Yeah, we're okay at. Let's come up to floor seven. This is the seventh floor. Hotset's two elevators. That's really nice because there's nine floors. So you definitely need that and all the students are definitely going to need that. Oh, my God! Oh, my God! You just came here in the fall, yeah. On every floor of hots, you have these studies places. There's two. So there's an identical one on the other side of the hallway. And as you can see, they're really nice places to hang out, chat with your friends, things like that. They'll be programming on that. We'll go on here as well. When I was here, one of my hours put on like a painting, a pot painting party. And so we literally just sat, painted pots, listened to music, and like it was really, really fun, kind of a chill program to do while you're on the floor just to get to know everyone, things like that. We did get a question about Hots Hall, if you don't mind. And that is about how many students live at Hots? Yeah, so we had 416 students that will make this place their home. Hopefully you want to think the one that asked the question. So yeah, it's a pretty big hall. We have like nine floors. There's a community space that you guys got to see downstairs. But yeah, we're a big community here. We love to get involved. We love going to the different programs. Your RA will put programs for the floor. And those can be anything from what she said about having like painting pots and that kind of stuff where you can actually like go watch a movie together. So make sure you're looking at the TVs that we had by the elevator. Those will have all of the posters and flyers for programs that you can get to go. And yeah, it's a wonderful community. I'm very excited for you guys to get here. Get here soon. Going down this way and we'll look at the bathrooms. And also you can see like I said, I didn't mind you. There's water bottle stations on every floor. So there's another one on the other side of the floor. So everything is kind of identical like I was saying about the study room. Each half is the same. So there's a half that looks just like this on the other side. So these bathrooms are referred to as semi private. So on this side, we have bathrooms with the whole shebang. So it's got the toilet shower and the seat combo. And this is the handicap out there. So it's a little bit larger. It's quite exciting. This is a unisex bathroom. Yes. This is a unisex bathroom. And then this is just another one like the when you just saw just not as big. I really loved when I came here as a freshman. And I saw this because I had this like really scary idea that like we were all going to be showering super close to each other or something like that. But as you can see, you can like shut the door lock it. You're all alone. So that's really, really nice. We can eat it. Nice updated bathroom turn costs. Do you mind showing them one of the showers? Yeah, we can look in the shower. So all the showers we look about this size. And HOTS is a co-ed building, but all the floors are divided by gender. So there will only be one gender on the entire floor. So it won't be like boys on one half or girls on the other like something like that. So you don't have to worry about some of the opposite gender being near the bathroom. Suzanne asks, will you guys go into an 08 room? And I think that's the last one we're going to see. Yeah, it's the last room we're going to see. And Barb asks, what's the best advice for community showers?  So I had one with just like body wash, soap, shampoo, all the essentials and just have it there with you and just kind of bring it in the shower. Do what you got to do and come out. Shower shoes. Shower shoes. A lot of people would buy those towels that you can like they have like velcro that you can like connect onto you or something like that. If you didn't want to like change in the shower, they would put those on to go to their room. So that's another thing you can buy. I have one. I bought it at Target. So nice target plug. Linda asked if we are going to go into a corner room. Yes. Yeah, we can do that. We will look at that room for you. I know that in years past when we're talking about shower shoes, I've heard don't overspend. Oh, I think a dollar. Like a dollar for a dollar store. I use like $7 flip flops. A dollar at the dollar dollar store. I used to do them for like a dollar and I would grab a couple at old Navy. Yeah, don't spend money on your shower shoes. It's not a huge deal. So this would be a very typical room. So this is what most of the rooms on in the building look like. Someone asked what temperature is Hots Hall normally kept at? That I don't know. But you have complete control of the temperature in your room. It's located right behind here at the door. So right over here you have your thermostat. So you can control that. And it's I think it's control. You can't take the room down to 34. Yeah, there's a limit. But yeah, I feel like somewhere around 65 to 74. It's probably the range of which and we strive to keep things about seven between 68 and 72. Barb, we are in room 710. I believe yes, 710. So we can take a look at some. So each room will have two of these armors for each student. You've got a nice mirror already installed. If you're planning on bringing a mirror, you can forget. You don't have to do that to have one for you. And then have the beds. So you can lock them off to anything like that to loft it yourself. I would suggest having a partner to loft it with you. Don't do it alone. So each also comes like a little side table right here. Just one little drawer, a desk, a chair, and then a like three drawer dresser. I'm just giving the length and width of that, if you don't mind. Room inside. Give him a length and a width. We have to know to get that question. A width, we got 26 inches, 20 inches. And someone asked which bed is A versus B? That's a great question for Tolita maybe. Well, I think it really is up to you and your roommate to decide upon it. It's when we sleep in the room. Yeah. Yeah, did you have a description? No, yeah, exactly what Chris has said. It's up to you and your roommate, but if you guys do this side to switch on which bed you're going to stay, you need to let your R in those so they write that down on your account. So we're making sure we're not charging you in case there's any damage and you guys swap on your room assignment.  So yeah. Shonda asks, is this a corner room? It's right next to the corner, but no, this isn't the corner room. And then we have another question. Are the furniture dimensions consistent throughout the various halls? Yes, all that information should be accurate on the housing website. It's, they're not, they're different in different halls, but they're pretty consistent in huts. So by hall, they're pretty consistent. I don't think there's any furniture. It's all movable here in huts. That's different than you were. I think it's all the same furniture. You can arrange it however you'd like. I always have this thing where every, like at semester I will rearrange my entire room. So feel free to get with your roommate and rearrange it however you'd like. That's what works for you. Yeah. How do you like your room? Is that your room? It's fantastic. And feel free to ask any questions you guys have about any dimensions or anything about the room. I think we're going to check out a corner and a end room. So. Linda asks, could you move one of the tables from under the bed? Yes, absolutely. Yeah, these are all. When I looked here, I lofted my bed all the way to the top and then I moved like a little nightstand out of the way, kind of turned the dresser so I could like sit under my bed and study like that. And I think a lot of people did that. A lot of people would pull the dresser out and put it against that wall over there. So you can use your own imagination, kind of configure it however you'd like. And while you were talking about the lofting, the connection was a little messed up. So could you talk about it again? Yeah, so about the lofting again, when I was here, I lofted my bed all the way to the top. I had help. I just did it with my dad and just had like a mallet just lofted it. It's not super hard as long as you have a partner and then you can move the furniture under the bed however you'd like that way. That's really an efficient way to make use of the space. Barb asked, what is the usable window sealed space? All right, sounds like a measurement to me. Note there is a little bit of a gap behind the window. So if you're on this side, there's a bar right here, but there is a cannon on that. She wants to know not including the gap. Okay, so from that corner, you can know there's a little bit of space, it's 139. And if we're not including the gap, 76 inches. And then the height, you can just turn it off and turn it back on again, reset. 62 inches, 79, 62. And someone asked if they can get a panorama view of the room from the corner. Okay. Close the door. You need to get a panorama view. Yup, that's it. And then we have a few more questions. Are safety rails required if the bed is lofted to max height? I don't think it's required, but you can use them. I didn't have a safety rail when I lofted my bed to the top. I don't know the answer to that.  I don't know that it's required, it's certainly recommended. We're getting lots of questions. Eleanor asked, hi Krista, what would people normally do if people want to put curtains in without installing them? I'm just using like a curtain rod. That's usually probably the simplest way and the easiest way to not do damage to the wall. Tension rods? You don't want to do damage to the wall. So you're using like a tension rod or something like that. Don't poke any holes in the walls. And Liz asked, is there room for a small lounger slash futon under the bed if you loft the bed? I don't think you can fit a futon under the bed. We can measure and then you can see what... Why don't we go into this corner room and just use that since someone was asking about the corner room. Let's measure because maybe a small futon would? 709. So yeah, do you need the tool or you've got it? Inches. So, I'm like 75 inches futon. Barb wants to know the space from the edge of the window seal to the shade. So I think this... She wants to see if a cubby shelf will fit on it. 14 inches. Linda says, I see that hot rooms have blinds. Do people also get curtains or blackout curtains? The people's rooms that I've seen don't really get curtains. I like a lot of natural light. I know a lot of people like a lot of natural light. So I haven't seen people use curtains super often. But obviously you totally can if that's your... That's your prerogative. Can you close the blinds? It's pretty dark as I recall. Yeah, it's not blackout level, but it's pretty dark. Estelle asked, can you measure the window in the corner room for attention rod please? It might be kind of difficult. We'll figure it out. Okay. All right, let's head to the end room. So this is going to be like the 08 room on the corner, or I guess it's a corner too. Barb wants to know the height of the window sill from the floor. In this room? Are they all the same? I believe it's all the same. I'll go check that here in a second. Window sill to the floor? I'll go check the other room just to make sure. 33 inches. Yeah. Linda asks, what are the dimensions of the corner rooms? I'll get on this side to measure. Okay, let's see. Here, sorry, I'll get you a laser. So that's 129 inches. Let's see if I can get that locked here. And 327 inches. Also known as 27 feet and 3 inches. We have a couple people in the chat asking, how do they get an 08 room? You don't have it now, then you probably are going to get it unfortunately. Someone, Jackson said, I'm actually the resident for Room 708, so I'm excited to see it. Oh, Jackson, welcome to your room. Welcome to your room. It's reconnecting. Okay, we're back, yes. If you go to the right, you can see the top of Old Man. Yeah, this is a nice, nice view that you got here, Jackson. You can see Garland Garage here. We have this small Walmart. I don't know if you guys mentioned before, but we do have an awesome Walmart here. Yeah, pretty sweet. Someone asked, Jackson said, you have to sign the contract really early and get a good room selection time in order to secure an 08 room. I checked on the distance under the window, and it's 33, 34 inches. It's the same as in here. Okay, and Suzanne asked, can you measure the wall that the armoires are on? But I'm not sure for which room she's asking. Okay, we can do it from here. Oh, she's asked, where are we measuring right now in 708? Tyler asked, are West End rooms being used as study rooms or overflow this year? Overflow this year. We have a lot of freshmen incoming. I think the most that we've had ever coming in, so those rooms are going to be overflow rooms. Suzanne is asking about this room, so she wants to know the wall, the distance of the wall that the armoires are on and the distance between them. If you want, I can use my hands. I was like, how am I going to stop it? Almost 113. And they want to know the room between them, the between the armoires. But these are movable. You can move them. So we're closer to our apartment than it would be. Yeah. But I didn't really want to. You didn't even get the width of one of them, so I just couldn't play with that. Shonda asked, can y'all measure the space between the beds for a rug in the corner room? Seven, yeah. We'll finish up in there. Oh, yes, okay. Polly asked, does housing have floor plans with measurements? I believe so. We have measurements for the different furniture. And then we have floor plans on the housing portal. We have to keep them secure from just random people looking at them. Bed's 63 inches, almost exactly. Linda is asking, in a corner room, what is the distance between the door and the corner? That's the corner, and here's the door. Four inches. And Suzanne has another question for that room, I believe. The width from the armoire wall to the window wall where the vent is. Do you have any more questions about the corner room? Nope. But someone asked, where on the portal are rooms with dimensions? Rooms with dimensions. So I think rooms with dimensions, you're going to need to go to actually the housing website for that. I thought we were talking about floor plans. Rooms with dimensions on the housing website. And then I don't think there's dimensions on the map itself of the floor plan. So it has the dimensions of a room and a standard room. The armoire wall to the window? It says width from the armoire wall to the window wall where the vent is. So I'm thinking there to the here. 101, almost 102 inches. Alright, well we're currently caught up on questions. Xavier, any final thoughts about Honors College and students coming out? For sure, for sure. Well we are super stoked and excited for you guys to be coming to join the Razorback family and also the Honors College family. Please, please, please go for you to contact us at any time that you have any questions or concerns. And we are located in Gearhart Hall and we can't wait for you to stop by. And so I hope that you guys have a great freshman year and we hope to see you at our black party in the fall as well. And so welcome, welcome. You're clearly all over the place. Right, right, right. All over the place, you'll probably see me around. And so please say hello, especially we love students coming to speak with us in our office or even on campus. And so do not be shy about coming up and talking to us. For sure. Any more questions? Suzanne has a couple of questions about the end room. Is that the one across? Is this the end room? Can you measure the window in the nook where the bed is? And she also wants to know where the outlets in this room are. Okay, it's 48 inches, almost 49. There's some outlets right here. There's four here. And we have over here as well, so lots of outlets. Yeah. There'll probably be about 10. That's kind of our standard. I'm not sure if there's any, are there any in this area? I'm not sure. I was trying to peek behind to see if there are any back there. There's generally about 10. Are there any ethernet ports? There should be. Depends on which room. But this one has one right there. Yep. So that's your wifi box and the ethernet ports on the bottom side. All right, we're all caught up. So, only a few years ago, you were a first year student. What do you think? What kind of advice would you give to the incoming HOTS class of 25? 26? 25? Wow. I know HOTS students are always super hardworking and super outgoing and trying to do their best. And I think that as much as effort as you put into your academics and building your resume and all that stuff, you need to take time for yourself. I definitely wish I had done more of that. I didn't until my junior year. I'd literally signed up for ice skating lessons just to take some time once a week just to breathe, not worry about school or classes or grades or anything like that. So once a week I drove, just bring down the Jones Center and did ice skating lessons. So it could be something as out there as that or just like handbooking or reading a book. Take time for yourself. Take a breather. Take a break. And sometimes it can get like a lot. And so having that like stress relievers is really, really, really important. Just as important as your academics and all that good stuff too. We've got a couple more questions now. Shonda wants to know if we can show the outlets in the corner room. Yeah, let's go do that. Any other questions for in here? Suzanne wants to know how tall is the window from the ledge in the end room. Yeah, she wants to know how tall the window is. And then we have another question for the corner room as well. For the corner or the store room? Corner. These are both about the corner room. We'll finish up there. Oh, sorry. She wants to know for someone. Shonda wants to see the outlets in the corner room. Where are they? I know there's, I know for a fact there's outlets on the wall here against those beds. There should be one on each side. There's another one back here. You can't really see it, but it's back here behind this armor. And there's another one back behind this armor. So there's like four, maybe a fifth hidden one somewhere. And then they want the distance above the wardrobe to the ceiling. And Estelle asked how much bigger are the corner rooms than the regular rooms and what numbers are they? Right now we're in 709. We're starting in 70710. As far as the actual dimensions difference, it's really not that significant. I will say about this. I heard people would put their TVs up here. So that's another kind of space saving option. You want to put a TV on top of there. All right. Well, we're all caught up. Great. Well, Felida, do you have any final thoughts for us? Yeah, just to tell you guys how excited I am. And we are here at the University of Arkansas to get you guys here and get you started with school. This is such an exciting time for you all. So definitely make sure that you follow Chris's advice to go to programs and all of that. Take care of yourself. Take some time for yourself. Try to find new interests and new friends and make this moment last forever in your head. So yeah, just enjoy this time. We have lots of programs happening here. We're going to have your RA on each floor that will put up floor programs for you guys and we'll do a lot of fun things. So make sure you stop by my work here. So I'm very excited to see you guys this fall. Thank you.


We're going to welcome to this CUBE conversation. My name is Dave Vellante and you know, containers, they used to be stateless and ephemeral, but they're maturing very rapidly. As cloud native workloads become more functional and they go mainstream, persisting and protecting the data that lives inside of containers is becoming more important to organizations. Enterprise capabilities such as high availability or reliability, scalability and other features are now more fundamental and important and containers are a lynchpin of hybrid cloud, cross-cloud and edge strategies. Now fusing these capabilities together across these regions in an abstraction layer that hides that underlying complexity of the infrastructure is where the entire enterprise technology industry is headed. But how do you do that without making endless copies of data and managing versions, not to mention the complexities and cost of doing so? And with me to talk about how IBM thinks about and is solving these challenges are Eric Herzog, who's the Chief Marketing Officer and VP of Global Storage Channels for the IBM Storage Division and Sam Werner, who's the Vice President of Offering Management and the Business Line Executive for IBM Storage. Guys, great to see you again. Wish we were face to face, but thanks for coming on the CUBE. Great to be here. Thanks Dave, as always. Hi guys, you heard me, my little spiel there about the problem statement. Eric, maybe you could start us off. I mean, is it on point? Yeah, absolutely. What we see is containers are going mainstream. I frame it very similarly to what happened with virtualization, right? It got brought in by the dev team, the test team, the applications team, and then eventually of course, it became the main state. Containers is going through exactly that right now, brought in by the DevOps people, the software teams, and now it's becoming, again, persistent, real use. Clients that want to deploy a million of them, just the way they historically have deployed a million virtual machines, now they want a million containers or two million. So now it's going mainstream and the feature functions that you need once you take it out of the test sort of playwith stage to the real production phase really changes the ballgame on the features you need, the quality of what you get, and the types of things you need, the underlying storage and the data services that go with that storage to do in a fully container world. So Sam, how'd we get here?  You look inside a Linux, right? But then they did, as Eric said, go mainstream, but it started out kind of a little experimental. As I said, their ephemeral didn't really need to persist them, but it's changed very quickly. Maybe you could talk to that evolution and how we got here. I mean, well, it's been a look, this is all about agility, right? It's about enterprises trying to accelerate their innovation. They started off by using virtual machines to try to accelerate access to IT for developers. And developers are constantly out running ahead. They got to go faster. They have to deliver new applications, business lines, need to figure out new ways to engage with their customers, especially now with the past year we had it even further accelerated this need to engage with customers in new ways. So it's about being agile. Containers promise or provide a lot of the capabilities you need to be agile. What enterprises are discovering, a lot of these initiatives are starting within the business lines and they're building these applications or making these architectural decisions, building DevOps environments on containers. And what they're finding is they're not bringing the infrastructure teams along with them and they're running into challenges that are inhibiting their ability to achieve the agility they want because their storage needs aren't keeping up. So this is a big challenge that enterprises face. They want to use containers to build a more agile environment to do things like DevOps, but they need to bring the infrastructure teams along and that's what we're focused on now. How do you make that agile infrastructure to support these new container worlds? Got it. So Eric, you guys made an announcement to directly address these issues like it's kind of a fire hose of innovation. Maybe you could take us through and then we can unpack that a little bit. Sure. So what we did is on April 27th we announced IBM Spectrum Fusion. This is a fully container native software defined storage technology that integrates a number of proven battle-hardened technologies that IBM has been deploying in the enterprise for many years. That includes a global scalable file system that can span edge core and cloud seamlessly with a single copy of the data. So no more data silos and no more 12 copies of the data which of course drive up CAPEX and OPEX. Spectrum Fusion reduces that and makes it easier to manage, cuts the cost from a CAPEX perspective and cuts a cost for an OPEX perspective. By being fully container native it's ready to go for the container centric world and can span all types of areas. So what we've done is create a storage foundation which is what you need at the bottom. So things like the single global namespace, single accessibility, we have local caching. So with your edge core or cloud regardless of where the data is you think the data is right with you even if it physically is not. So that allows people to work on it. We have file locking and other technologies to ensure that the data is always good. And then of course we'd imbued it with the HA disaster recovery, the backup and restore technology which we've had for years and now made it fully container native. So Spectrum Fusion basically takes several elements of IBM's existing portfolio, has made them container native and brought them together into a single piece of software and we'll provide that both as a software defined storage technology early in 2022. And our first pass will be as a hyperconverged appliance which will be available next quarter in Q3 of 2021. That of course means it'll come with compute, it'll come with storage, come with a rack even, come with networking and because we can preload everything for the end users or for our business partners it would also include Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat's virtualization technology all in one simple package all easy to use and a single management GUI to manage everything both the software side and the physical infrastructure that's part of the hyperconverged system level technologies. So Sam, maybe you could help us understand the architecture and maybe the prevailing ways in which people approach container storage, what's the stack look like and how have you guys approached it? Yeah, that's a great question. Really there's three layers that we look at when we talk about container native storage. It starts with the storage foundation which is the layer that actually lays the data out onto media and does it in an efficient way and makes that data available where it's needed. So that's the core of it and the quality of your storage services above that depend on the quality of the foundation that you start with. Then you go up to the storage services layer this is where you bring in capabilities like HA and DR. People take this for granted I think as they move to containers we're talking about moving mission critical applications now into a container and hybrid cloud world. How do you actually achieve the same levels of high availability you did in the past? If you look at what large enterprises do they run three site, four site replication of their data with hyper swap and they can ensure high availability. How do you bring that into a Kubernetes environment? Are you ready to do that? We talk about how only 20% of applications have really moved into a hybrid cloud world. The thing that's inhibiting the other 80% are these types of challenges. Okay, so the storage services include HA, DR, data protection, data governance, data discovery. You talked about making multiple copies of data creates complexity. It also creates risk and security exposures. If you have multiple copies of data if you needed data to be available in the cloud you're making a copy there how do you keep track of that? How do you destroy the copy when you're done with it? How do you keep track of governance and GDPR? So if I have to delete data about a person how do I delete it everywhere? So there's a lot of these different challenges. These are the storage services. So we talk about a storage services layer. So layer one data foundation, layer two storage services and then there needs to be connection into the application runtime. There has to be application awareness to do things like high availability and application consistent backup and recovery. So then you have to create the connection. And so in our case, we're focused on OpenShift. When we talk about Kubernetes how do you create the knowledge between layer two the storage services and layer three the application services. And so this is your three layer cake and then as far as like the policies that I want to inject you got an API out and entries in I can use whatever policy engine I want. How does that work? So we're creating consistent sets of APIs to bring those storage services up into the application runtime. We and IBM have things like IBM Cloud Satellite which bring the IBM Cloud public cloud experience to your data center and give you a hybrid cloud or into other public cloud environments giving you one hybrid cloud management experience will integrate there giving you that consistent set of storage services within an IBM Cloud Satellite. We're also working with Red Hat on their advanced cluster manager also known as Rack M to create a multicluster management of your Kubernetes environment giving that consistent experience. Again, one common set of APIs. So Eric, the appliance comes first is that okay? So is that just time to market or is there a sort of enduring demand for appliances some customers, they want that maybe you could explain that strategy. Yeah, so first let me take it back a second look at our existing portfolio. Our award winning products are both software defined and system based. So for example, spectrum virtualized comes on our flash system. Spectrum scale comes on our elastic storage system. And we've had this model where we provide the exact same software both on an array or as a standalone piece of software. This is unique in the storage industry. When you look at our competitors when they've got something that's embedded in their array their array manager, if you will that's not what they'll try to sell you is software defined storage. And of course, many of them don't offer software defined storage in any way shape or form. So we've done both. So with spectrum fusion we'll have a hyper converged configuration which will be available in Q3. They'll have a software defined configuration which we've available at the very beginning of 2022. So you want to get out of this market feedback from our clients feedback from our business partners by doing a container native HCI technology the way ahead. We're going to where the puck is we're throwing the ball ahead of the wide receiver. If you're a soccer fan we're making sure that the mid guy got it to the forward ahead of time so you could kick the goal right in. That's what we're doing. Other technologies lead with virtualization which is great but virtualization is kind of old hat, right? VMware and other virtualization layers have been around for 20 years now. Container is where the world is going. And by the way, we'll support everything. We still have customers in certain worlds that are using bare metal. Guess what? We work fine with that. We work fine with virtual as we have a tight, tight integration with both Hyper-V and VMware. So some customers will still do that. And containers is a new wave. So with spectrum fusion we are riding the wave, not fighting the wave. And that way we can meet all the needs, right? Bare metal, virtual environments and container environments in a way that is all based on the end user's applications, workloads and use cases, what goes where and IBM storage can provide all of it. So we'll give them two methods of consumption by early next year. And we started with a hyperconverged first because A, we felt we had a lead, truly a lead. Other people are leading with virtualization. We're leading with open shifting containers where the first full container native open shift ground up based hyperconverged of anyone in the industry versus somebody who's done VMware or some other virtualization layer and then sort of glommed on containers as an afterthought. We're going to where the market is moving not to where the market has been. So just follow up on that. You kind of, you got the sort of Switzerland DNA and it's not just open shift and Red Hat and your open source eat those. I mean, this goes all the way back to sand volume controller back in the day where you could virtualize anybody's storage. How is that carrying through to this announcement? So Spectrum Fusion is doing the same thing. Spectrum Fusion, which has many key elements brought in from our history with Spectrum Scale supports non IBM storage. For example, EMC, ISLON, NFS. It will support Fusion will support Spectrum Scale. Fusion will support our elastic storage system. Fusion will support NetApp filers as well. Fusion will support IBM cloud object storage both software defined storage or as an array technology and Amazon S3 object stores and any other object storage vendor who's compliant with S3. All of those can be part of the global namespace scalable file system. We can bring in, for example, object data without making a duplicate copy. The normal way to do that is you make a duplicate copy. So you had a copy in the object store. You make a copy and to bring that into the file. Well, guess what? We don't have to do that. So again, cutting capex and apex and ease of management. But just as we do with our flash systems product and our Spectrum virtualize and the sand volume controller, we support over 550 storage arrays that are not ours that are our competitors. With Spectrum Fusion, we've done the same thing. Fusion, Scale, the IBM ESS, IBM cloud object storage, Amazon S3 object store as well as other compliance, EMC, ISLON, NFS and NFS from NetApp. And by the way, we can do the discovery model as well, not just integration in the system. So we've made sure that we really do protect existing investments and we try to eliminate, particularly with discovery capability, you've got AI or analytic software connecting with the API into the discovery technology. You don't have to traverse and try to find things because discovery will create real time, metadata cataloging and indexing, not just of our storage, but the other storage I mentioned, which is the competition. So talk about making it easier to use, particularly for people who are heterogeneous in their storage environment, which is pretty much the bulk of the Global Fortune 1500 for sure. And so we're allowing them to use multiple vendors, but to arrive real value with Spectrum Fusion and get all the capabilities of Spectrum Fusion and all the advantages of the enterprise data services, but not just for our own product, but for the other products as well that aren't ours. So Sam, we understand the downside of copies, but then so you got, you're not doing multiple copies. How do you deal with latency? What's the secret sauce here? Is it the file system? Is there other magic in here? Yeah, that's a great question. And I'll build a little bit off of what Eric said, but look, one of the really great and unique things about Spectrum Scale is its ability to consume any storage. And we can actually allow you to bring in data sets from where they are. It could have originated in object storage, we'll cash it into the file system. It could be on any block storage. It can literally be on any storage you can imagine as long as you can integrate a file system with it. And as you know, most applications run on top of a file system. So it naturally fits into your application stack. Spectrum Scale uniquely is a globally parallel file system. So there's not very many of them in the world and there's none that can achieve what Spectrum Scale can do. We have customers running in the exabytes of data and the performance improves with scale. So you can actually deploy Spectrum Scale on-prem, build out an environment of it, consuming whatever storage you have. Then you can go into AWS or IBM Cloud or Azure, deploy an instance of it and it'll now extend your file system into that cloud or you can deploy it at the edge and it'll extend your file system to that edge. This gives you the exact same set of files and visibility and will cash in only what's needed. Normally you would have to make a copy of data into the other environment, then you'd have to deal with that copy later. Let's say we're doing a cloud bursting use case. Let's look at that as an example to make this real. You're running an application on-prem. You want to spin up more compute in the cloud for your AI, the data. Normally you'd have to make a copy of the data, you'd run your AI, then you have to figure out what to do with that data. Do you copy some of it back? Do you resync them? Do you delete it? What do you do with Spectrum Scale? We'll just automatically cash in whatever you need. It'll run there. If you decide to spin it down, your copy is still on-prem. You know, no data's lost. We can actually deal with all of those scenarios for you. And then if you look at what's happening at the edge, a lot of, say, video surveillance data, pouring in, looking at the manufacturing floor, looking for defects, you can run AI right at the edge, make it available in the cloud, make that data available in your data center. Again, one file system going across all. And that's something unique in our data foundation, built on Spectrum Scale. So there's some metadata magic in there as well, and that intelligence based on your location. Okay, so you're smart enough to know where the data lives. What's the sweet spot for this, Erica? Are there any particularly use cases or industries that we should be focused on? Or is it sort of- Sure, so first, let's talk about the industries. We see certain industries going more container quicker than other industries. So first is financial services. We see it happening there. Manufacturing. Sam already talked about AI based manufacturing platforms. We actually have a couple of clients right now. We're doing autonomous driving software with us on containers right now, even before Spectrum Fusion with Spectrum Scale. We see public, of course, healthcare. And in healthcare, don't just think delivery at IBM, that includes the research guys. So the genomic companies, the biotech companies, the drug companies are all included in that. And then of course, retail both on-prem and off-prem. So those are sort of the industries. Then we see from an application workload, basically AI, analytics and big data applications or workloads are the key things that Spectrum Fusion helps you because of its file system, its high performance. And those applications are tending to spread across core, edge, and cloud. So those applications are spreading out. They're becoming broader than just running in the data center. And by the way, if they want to run it just in the data center, that's fine.  They've got factories all over. And if you think there isn't compute resources in every factory there is, because those factories just saw an article actually, those factories cost about a billion dollars to build them, a billion. So they've got their own IT. Now it's connected to their core data center as well. So that's a perfect example of that enterprise edge where Spectrum Fusion would be an ideal solution, whether they did it as software defined only. Or of course, when you got a billion dollar factory just to make it, let alone produce the autos or whatever you're producing. Silicon, for example, those tabs all cost a billion. That's where the enterprise edge fits in very well with Spectrum Fusion. So are those industries like, what's driving the adoption of containers? Is it just, they just want to modernize? Is it because they're doing, you know, some of those workloads that you mentioned or there's edge, like you mentioned, manufacturing. I could see that potentially being an edge. Is the driver? Well, it's a little bit of all of those Dave. For example, virtualization came out and virtualization offered advantages over bare metal. Okay. Now containerization has come out and containerization is offering advantage over virtualization. The good thing at IBM is we know we can support all three and we know again in the Global Fortune 2015 hundred, they're probably going to run all three based on the application workload and use case. And our storage is really good at bare metal, very good at virtualization environments. And now with Spectrum Fusion, our container native outstanding for container-based environments. So we see these big companies will probably have all three and IBM storage is one of the few vendors if not the only vendor that could adroitly support all three of those various workload types. So that's why we see this as a huge advantage. And again, the market is going to containers. I'm a native California, you don't fight the wave, you ride the wave. And the wave is containers and we're riding that wave. If you don't ride the wave, you become driftwood as Pat Gelsinger would say. And that is true. Another native California, my own boss. So, okay, so I wonder, Sam, I sort of hinted upfront in my little narrative there, but the way we see this is you've got on-prem hybrid, you got public clouds, cross cloud, moving to the edge, open shift, as I said, is the linchpin to enabling some of those. And what we see is this layer that abstracts the complexity, hides the underlying complexity of the infrastructure. That becomes kind of an implementation detail. Eric talked about skating to the puck or whatever sports analogy you want to use. Is that where the puck is headed? Yeah, I mean, look, the bottom line is you have to remove the complexity for the developers. Again, the name of the game here is all about agility. You asked why these industries are implementing containers. It's about accelerating their innovation and their services for their customers. It's about leveraging AI to gain better insights about their customers and delivering what they want and proving their experience. So if it's all about agility, developers don't wanna wait around for infrastructure. You need to automate it as much as possible. So it's about building infrastructure that's automated, which requires consistent APIs. And it requires abstracting out the complexity of things like HA and DR. You don't want every application owner to have to figure out how to implement that. You want to make those storage services available and easy for a developer to implement and integrate into what they're doing. You wanna ensure security across everything you do as you bring more and more of your data, of your information about your customers into these container worlds. You've gotta have security, rock solid. You can't leave any exposures there and you can't afford downtime. There's increasing threats from things like ransomware. You don't see it in the news every day, but it happens every single day. So how do you make sure you can recover when an event happens to you? So yes, you need to build a abstracted layer of storage services and you need to make it simply available to the developers in these DevOps environments. And that's what we're doing with Spectrum Fusion. We're taking, I think, extremely unique and one-of-a-kind storage foundation with Spectrum Scale that gives you single namespace globally and we're building onto it an incredible set of storage services making extremely simple to deploy enterprise class container applications. So what's the bottom line business impact? I mean, how does this change? Sam, you I think articulated very well through all about serving the developers versus storage admin provisioning a loan. So how does this change my organization, my business? What's the impact there? I'll mention one other point that we talk about in IBM a lot, which is the AI ladder. And it's about how do you take all of this information you have and be able to take it to build new insights to give your company an advantage and incumbent in an industry shouldn't be able to be disrupted if they're able to leverage all the data they have about the industry and their customers. But in order to do that, you have to be able to get to a single source of data and be able to build it into the fabric of your business operations so that all decisions you're making in your company, all services you deliver to your customers are built on that data foundation and information. And the only way to do that and infuse it into your culture is to make this stuff real time. And the only way to do that is to build out a containerized application environment that has access to real time data. The ultimate outcome, sorry, I know you asked for business results is that you will in real time understand your clients, understand your industry and deliver the best possible services and the absolute business outcome is you will continue to gain market share in your environment and grow revenue. I mean, that's the outcome every business wants. That's all about speed. Everybody's kind of, last year was forced into digital transformation that was sort of rushed into compressed and now they get some time to do it right. And so, modernizing apps, containers, DevOps, developer led sort of initiatives are really a key to modernization. All right, Eric, we're out of time, but give us the bottom line summary. We didn't talk, actually, we didn't talk about the 3200. Maybe you could give us a little insight on that before we close. Sure, sure. So in addition to what we're doing with Fusion, we also introduced a new elastic storage system 3200. It's all flash. It gets 80 gigs a second sustained at the node level and we can cluster them infinitely. So for example, if I've got 10 of them, I'm delivering 800 gigabytes a second sustained and of course AI big data and analytic workloads are extremely, extremely susceptible to bandwidth and or data transfer rate. That's what they need to deliver their application based properly. It comes with spectrum scale built in. So that comes with it. So you get the advantage of spectrum scale. We talked a lot about spectrum scale because it is, if you will, one of the three fathers of spectrum fusion. So it's ideal with its highly parallel file system. It's used all over in high performance computing, in supercomputing, in drug research, in healthcare, in finance, probably about 80% of the world's largest banks of the world use spectrum scale already for AI big data analytics. So the new 3200 is an all flash version twice as fast as the older version and all the benefit of spectrum scale, including the ability of seamlessly integrating into existing spectrum scale or ESS deployments. And when fusion comes out, you'll be able to have fusion and you could also add 3200s to it if you want to do that because of the capability of our global namespace and our single file system across Edge, Core and Cloud. So that's the 3200 in a nutshell, Dave. All right, give us a bottom line, Eric, and then we got to go. What's the bumper sticker? Yep, bumper sticker is. You got to ride the wave of containers and IBM storage is coming that can take you there so that you win the big surfing context and get the big prize. Eric and Sam, thanks so much, guys. It's great to see you and miss you guys. Hopefully we'll get together soon. So get your jabs and we'll have a beer. All right. All right, thanks, Dave. Thanks, Dave. Thanks, Dave. All right, thank you for watching everybody. This is Dave Vellante for theCUBE. We'll see you next time.


We continue today with chapter 27. THE HERO OF THE DREAM The body is the central figure in the dreaming of the world. There is no dream without it, nor does it exist without the dream in which it acts as if it were a person to be seen and be believed. It takes the central place in every dream, which tells the story of how it was made by other bodies, born into the world outside the body, lives a little while and dies to be united in the dust with other bodies, dying like itself. In the brief time allotted it to live, it seeks for other bodies as its friends and enemies. Its safety is its main concern. Its comfort is its guiding rule. It tries to look for pleasure and avoid the things that would be hurtful. Above all, it tries to teach itself its pains and joys are different and can be told apart. The dreaming of the world takes many forms because the body seeks in many ways to prove it is autonomous and real. It puts things on itself that it has bought with little metal discs or paper strips the world proclaims as valuable and real. It works to get them, doing senseless things and tosses them away for senseless things it does not need and does not even want. It hires other bodies that they may protect it and collect more senseless things that it can call its own. It looks about for special bodies that can share its dream. Sometimes it dreams it is a conqueror of bodies weaker than itself, but in some phases of the dream it is the slave of bodies that would hurt and torture it. The body's serial adventures from the time of birth to dying are the theme of every dream the world has ever had. The quote hero of this dream will never change, nor will its purpose. Though the dream itself takes many forms and seems to show a great variety of places and events wherein its quote hero finds itself, the dream has but one purpose taught in many ways. This single lesson does it try to teach again and still again and yet once more that it is cause and not effect and you are its effect and cannot be its cause. Thus are you not the dreamer but the dream and so you wander idly in and out of places and events that it contrives. That this is all the body does is true. For it is but a figure in a dream. But who reacts to figures in a dream unless he sees them as if they were real? The instant that he sees them as they are, they have no more effects on him because he understands he gave them their effects by causing them and making them seem real. How willing are you to escape effects of all the dreams of the world has ever had? Is it your wish to let no dream appear to be the cause of what it is you do? Then let us merely look upon the dream's beginning. For the part you see is but the second part whose cause lies in the first. No one asleep and dreaming in the world remembers his attack upon himself. No one believes there really was a time when he knew nothing of a body and could never have conceived this world as real. He would have seen at once that these ideas are one illusion, too ridiculous for anything but to be laughed away. How serious they now appear to be and no one can remember when they would have been met with laughter and with disbelief. We can remember this if we let look directly at their cause and we will see the grounds for laughter, not a cause for fear. Let us return the dream he gave away unto the dreamer who proceeds the dream as separate from himself and done to him. Into eternity where all is one, there crept a tiny mad idea at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh. In his forgetting did the thought become a serious idea and possible of both accomplishment and real effects. Together we can laugh them both away and understand that time cannot intrude upon eternity. It is a joke to think that time can come to circumvent eternity, which means there is no time. A timelessness in which is time made real, a part of God that can attack itself, a separate brother as an enemy, a mind within a body, all forms of circularity whose ending starts at its beginning, ending at its cause. The world you see depicts exactly what you thought you did, except that now you think that what you did is being done to you. The guilt for what you thought is being placed outside yourself and on a guilty world that dreams your dreams and thinks your thoughts instead of you. It brings its vengeance, not your own. It keeps you narrowly confined within a body which it punishes because of all the sinful things the body does within its stream. You have no power to make the body stop its evil deeds because you do not make it and cannot control its actions nor its purpose nor its fate. The world but demonstrates an ancient truth. You will believe that others do to you exactly what you think you did to them. But once deluded into blaming them, you will not see the cause of what they do because you want the guilt to rest on them. How childish is the petulant device to keep your innocence by pushing guilt outside yourself but never letting go. It is not easy to perceive the jest when all around you do your eyes behold its heavy consequences but without their trifling cause. Without the cause do its effects seem serious and sad indeed, yet they but follow. And it is their cause that follows nothing and is but a jest. In gentle laughter does the Holy Spirit perceive the cause and looks not to effects. How else could he correct your error who have overlooked the cause entirely?  You judge effects but he has judged their cause and by his judgment our effects removed. Perhaps you come in tears but hear him say, my brother, Holy Son of God, behold your idle dream in which this could occur. And you will leave the Holy Instant with your laughter and your brothers joined with his. The secret of salvation is but this, that you are doing this unto yourself. No matter what the form of the attack, this still is true. Whoever takes the role of enemy and of attacker still is this the truth. Whatever seems to be the cause of any pain and suffering you feel, this is still true. For you would not react at all to figures in a dream you knew that you were dreaming. Let them be as hateful and as vicious as they may.  This single lesson learned will set you free from suffering whatever form it takes. The Holy Spirit will repeat this one inclusive lesson of deliverance until it has been learned regardless of the form of suffering that brings you pain. Whatever hurt you bring to him he will make answer with this very simple truth. For this one answer takes away the cause of every form of sorrow and of pain. The form affects his answer not at all. For he would teach you but the single cause of all of them no matter what their form. And you will understand that miracles reflect the simple statement I have done this thing and it is this I would undo. Bring then all forms of suffering to him who knows that everyone is like the rest. He sees no differences where none exists and he will teach you how each one is caused. None has a different cause from all the rest and all of them are easily undone by but a single lesson truly learned. Salvation is a secret you have kept but from yourself. The universe proclaims it so. Yet to its witnesses you pay no heed at all. For they attest the thing you do not want to know. They seem to keep its secret from you. Yet you need but learn, you chose but not to listen, not to see. How differently will you perceive the world and this is recognized when you forgive the world your guilt you will be free of it. Its innocence does not demand your guilt nor does your guiltlessness rest on its sins. This is the obvious. A secret kept from no one but yourself and it is this that has maintained you separate from the world and kept your brother separate from you. Now need you but to learn that both of you are innocent or guilty. The one thing that is impossible is that you be unlike each other. That they both be true. This is the only secret yet to learn and there will be no secret you are healed. And from the workbook, lesson 217 I am not a body. I am free for I am still as God created me. It can be but my gratitude I earn. Who should give thanks for my salvation but myself? And how but through salvation can I find the self to whom my thanks are due? I am not a body. I am free for I am still as God created me. Amen.


Okay, welcome to my talk. I love that. Okay, thank you. Today I'm going to tell you how we're using valiant in IVS systems. I would like to give you a short overview of what I'm doing in my daily life or in my work. I would give a really high level of the graphics tech so you know which component I'm talking about and where we are placed in this tech. Then I would like you to explain why IVS system needs something different as a usual desktop system. And the main part should cover then the usage of Western as a valiant compositor in IVI. And then I would also like to talk about what's coming next, what we're planning to do and what we already have done and planning to upstream. So my name is Eugen Fiedrich. I'm working from ADIT for ADIT since 2010. I started handling graphics techs in the company and till today I'm doing the same job actually. I'm responsible for the complete graphics tech. It's a video end display, pipeline, GPU and all surrounding and related components. I would also like to give you all of you what you're doing in ADIT so you know why actually we need, why we choose the Western and valiant as a graphics system. ADIT was founded in 2003 from Bosch and Denso. From those big two companies we are getting out of requirements. We need to harmonize them and create one single platform which will cover all the requirements. The biggest part of the software we are getting delivered but still to implement the use cases we need to implement some additional components or enable features and modify the stacks a bit. Once we are done, actually it's never really done so it's a continuous integration writing and change request and so on. We're delivering the platform to other companies and they're building projects on top of it. For us it's very important to have something really generic here which will cover both requirements and also practically they are up to 10 projects using this at the same time. This is the overview of the graphics tech, very simplified. You can see on the upper layer of the applications they can use some frameworks. They will in this diagram they are all using valiant. They have to talk with valiant compositor which is Western in this case. There is OpenGL driver. You can see here that the compositor and the applications are able to use the same driver thanks to the valiant agile implementation. And the compositor is actually then responsible to give the final content, final results of all applications to the kernel monster driver and then to display. So I think this is and now I would like to talk a bit more of Western itself. The Western has a really good defined plugin infrastructure. You have to have three plugins at least. One plugin is a renderer which will use OpenGL driver to make a composition. Actually render the stuff in the compositor. There is a backend. Most of the time we are using the RAM backend but you could also use for example valiant backend which will output the final result to a different valiant compositor so creating nested compositing is quite easy and there is a shell. The shell is actually or the implementation of the shell defines the window management. It will provide some valiant protocols to the applications and they have to use it and talk with this protocol to compositor to then request how they want to be presented. There is no different process or component which will decide how to behave. So this is all implemented in the shell. And this is exactly the main difference what we don't like in AVI or what we cannot directly use in AVI because our customers has very different requirements very different ideas how the application would look like and the complete setup of the system. They could have screens with one application or five or three they want to have them slide away and flank in from different directions and they also asking fast for example to implement something which will ensure that the arrangement of application and the application content change will happen in the same vision. It's quite hard to achieve because the APIs are synchronously implemented there are some events and it's hard really to synchronize different protocols and APIs. Looking closer to our idea so how to tackle this problem we decided to implement a special shell which will provide the interface to outside so you could implement your window management outside of Western. It should be really only this it should be really a slim interface it is a slim interface which will allow you to control the composition but it will not take care of the actual rendering this stuff and it will also not take care of how to output this to the final display. At the end it actually could be not really a display it could be some virtualized output or even a different compositor. To implement this we have now the IVI shell which is living in Western itself IVI shell can load additional plugins those plugins will implement a variant protocol and this protocol can be used to control the applications. On the application side we also need to add something maybe it's not really the best idea if you're coming from desktop but this is what IVI was using for a very long time they always had some identifier for their applications and this IVI application protocol is really slim so it's small, it has one request and two events we need this to assign a unique ID to our variant surfaces and of course the drawback that application needs to be modified or some framework needs to be modified to implement this and to assign ID or to map the ID to the variant surface which in variant represents the application or the content of the application. Looking closer to the implementation as such how we relate this the Western is its own open source project the IVI shell is living inside Western so it is in the Western repository and the bluish plugins they are in a different open source project it's a Geneva project and ADAT is maintaining of this here we are developing the controller plugins and maintaining this IVI VM protocol to control the application IVI input protocol to control the input routing there are also some examples and VREPA or the lay manager protocol which will ensure compatibility to some defined IPI in Geneva for window management you could also see that here inside of IVI shell you could also have some HMI controller built in this is a different plugin which can also implement the video management if you don't want to use this and you know how the video management should look like there is only one use case or simple use case which can be implemented and which is really good to define then you can also do this with HMI controller which will then implement window management so what we can do with the IVI VM protocol it's quite simple we have three types of project we have a screen this screen is actually mapped to the output struct of Western which at the end represents a physical display most of the time on the screen we can put some layers layers are just logical object to group the surfaces you can scale layers, you can make it invisible you can define transparency and also change set order on the layers and we have the IVI surfaces which actually represents the application content and there are some few events to get notification about new object in the system about new surfaces new IDs if they are created and deleted so that the HMI controller which is sitting outside of Western can react on this and make it visible it is actually also not possible for application to be visible so application cannot request, make it visible this logic has to be implemented in the HMI controller which we will get to know application is available then I would like to talk about this tiny thing the IVI application protocol this was from this slide sorry I am spoiling my slides this one they had to modify the application of framework actually we would like to get rid of this long term and convince also our customers to follow this and the idea is to use a different protocol because some protocol needs to be used from application side we decided to focus on the XDG protocol which is also defined by the Western community and actually used also already in some distributions and even different variant compositors there is also a stable version of it then we think this is a good protocol to be used in the future also for IVI but still we need to identify our applications and we need to define the ID to be able to use the same IVI-VM protocol and we define now additional plugin for Western which is called ID agent this is work is going to be upstreamed in the next week maybe patches are already provided we are planning the generic idea is just to define how to assign the ID to the application on the HDG protocol you have already a lot of stuff which you can use for identify like a window name or application ID and in the ID agent you need to implement some logic which will take some of those attributes and will say ok this application appears then this is ID 5 you could also have this more complex and your ID agent could also communicate with some database and ask someone to get the ID from this but this is an up to implement of this ID agent this thing that at the end each project could have its own we could provide some basic implementation which will look up some configuration XML this is how it will look like then if this will be implemented and available we will still use the IVI shell we will still use the HMI controller the major change is actually only for application and the biggest benefit we will get because of the application frameworks something like Qt or OpenSceneGraph already have support for HDG but they also have support for IVI application protocol but it is not really good implemented and not really widely used it is definitely better to focus on HDG protocol in the application frameworks and with this ID agent implementation we are able to make applications visible without any modifications in framework or application site and of course we cannot force the customers to use the HDG shell protocol they can still use IVI application protocol it is still available, it is supported but I think long term this will be a good idea also because of the compatibility you can easily port, exchange and also reuse application or just try some application to run a new IVI system which are already running somewhere else the next use case we want to be able to manage with Western is distributed at Gemai this we are getting more and more requested to implement something which will realize the use case we have a different hardware different displays the content is generated on one place and is presented on another and there are also very different systems and all this stuff is quite complex and also the communications is very complex between those components at Gemai and there is actually no real standard way to implement this there are some components and some implementations available which will be able to help a lot for example Ramses which was also open source recently from BMW but we would also be able to support this use case a bit better and the idea is to implement another plugin for Western which should use FileZem FileZem is actually very similar to Valiant as such but there is one major change or difference it cannot carry file descriptors it can cross your device it can really communicate to outside it can use TCP IP sockets and get connected to a different system with Valiant sorry, FileZem the complete picture will look like this we will get additional FileZem transmitter this transmitter will actually implement one additional output object in Western and if you will be outside of Compositor if you will be on application side or in framework you will just see additional output you should know this output is virtualized and if you will put some content to it then device and transmitter will be notified and will start perform some action so it will stream this to a different device if you have virtualized system it could use some graphic sharing mechanism to share the content at notify different operating system the GMI controller is actually also a client of Western it will also get this virtual output in the same way so it can then use the IVIVM to assign application to this new created output and this is the idea but it is quite hard to implement it is a really genetic which can be used between Linux and Android or Android to Android and some proprietary operating systems which are not widely used in desktop but in automotive also to implement the compatibility mode to hyper-vise us it is not quite challenging but this is what we are planning to do next years and those are just a list of questions what I like not solved now and where we are getting requests again and again but for now there are no real solution let me say in the lower platform level and we are still thinking how to solve this how to implement this or maybe the final result will be it is not meaningful to be implemented in Western it should be done on the upper layers yeah, I think that is all for my talk do we have some questions? that is a good do you have a feeling of the latency now between what M remote displays and for example or what it means? depending on what you will do the Linux channel is very fast if you will use a very simple system without load in real test we could not recognize we should be very careful looking to a display to see where is the original content and where is the fake output content but it is again like it is idle system without any load that all use case will be a little bit hard but I cannot tell you the number in milliseconds but it is usable differently yeah the original design was the idea of single full screen only and one screen per device in modern cars that is quite out of fashion do you still believe that I will be a shell as it is designed to make sense could we use an XBG concept and just have a controller to stop the application to do whatever they want it creates a lot of side effects actually I don't think that IVA shell limits you to the number of displays it is not related if you have 5 outputs you can use them all it is difficult to manage them you have different size of screens different color depths it doesn't manage that we know it is difficult IVA shell will not limit you to do this what will happen if you use IVA shell then you will have differently arranged displays so in default behavior of fashion that it will extend the display you will have all the display in one big coordinate space if you will use IVA shell you will get this completely distinct so it will be different displays with different resolution you may not have one common visual space but you could arrange your layer and surface setup that it will look like one common space so it is I think especially for IVA you don't want to have extended displays you have to have separate displays the typical use case is to move for example the map from the big screen to the small screen under when you have another application starting out that's difficult you probably have to design the application in line with the hardware where your fashion and experience limit it it means the application has to get the knowledge of the real implementation of the graphics maybe we can talk later there is a way to realize this use case with the IVA-IVM protocol they can move your application to a different screen with the same application content, same surface because I didn't show this here what you can do, you can assign the same surface to different layers at the same time but you cannot assign the same layer to different screens this we didn't implement because of complexity but if you will assign your surface to different layers you can use the layer capabilities to scale this differently and assign this to different display with different resolution this would be...