Welcome to the Ampere Developer Newsletter
This edition includes updates from edge computing with OpenNebula, Ceph on Arm64, Nissan’s “The Car is the Computer”, how Ampere helps with Genomic Research, and a new Developer Impact video.
Major Milestone in Commercial Support for Ceph on Arm64
A significant development for the open-source storage community was announced at Ceph Days London 2025: commercial support for Ceph on Arm64 (Ampere) is now a reality. For more details and features of Ceph on Arm64, check out the Ampere Community’s own Peter Pouliot’s blog on the announcement.
OpenNebula Embraces Arm64
In other exciting news, OpenNebula now offers a streamlined solution for managing lightweight Kubernetes clusters on Arm64 infrastructure at the edge. This approach complements the deployment of AI inference directly on energy-efficient edge nodes like Ampere Arm64 servers, which are a compelling solution for small models due to their power efficiency, cost-effectiveness, scalability, and deployment simplicity compared to GPUs. All of this is available in OpenNebula’s 7.0 release that has recently gone to GA.
From around the web
- Nissan’s “Car is the Computer”: Nissan’s Advanced Technology Center in Silicon Valley (NATC-SV) is pioneering the concept of “the Car is the computer,” with their Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs) becoming “supercomputers on wheels”. Nissan collaborated with Ampere Computing to validate their Autonomous Drive (AD) Level 4 stack on Ampere Arm-based processor systems with NVIDIA GPUs, confirming the viability of advanced Arm CPU cores for their needs.
- Accelerating Genomic Research at MSOE: The Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) achieved a 10x acceleration in mosquito genomic research by upgrading to an Ampere-powered System76 Thelio Astra workstation. This workstation, equipped with 128 cores and 512 GB of RAM, efficiently processed massive, memory-intensive genomic datasets, reducing analysis time from months to weeks.
Developer Impact Videos
In our latest video, Dave speaks with Emil Ivov, Global Product Lead at 8x8 — and the creator of the popular open source Jitsi project. Emil shares how the company scaled through the explosive growth during the 2020–2021 pandemic, and how their infrastructure evolved to meet increasing demand.
Events
It is summer and thus a little quiet on the events front. We were at Open Source Summit- June 23-25, Denver, CO. In September, Dave Neary speaks at DevConf.US in Boston, and in November we will be in Atlanta for the KubeCon events.
Ampere Community Info
Here are couple of our favorite posts on the Community form.
- EDK2: new support for ASRock Rack ALTRAD8UD-1L2T / ALTRAD8UD2-1L2Q and build improvements for Mt Jade and COM-HPC-ALT Rebecca Cran (@bexcran) posted some of her changes to the TianoCore’s edk2-platforms repo.
- Migrating to 64k page size is still a popular topic. This month we had Naren (@naren )with Migrating to 64k page size kernels - detecting dependencies, and last month it was Dave’s post with 64K Memory page sizes - any experiences to share? They have over 1k views between them.
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Thanks for reading!
The Ampere DevRel team
