In the data center virtualization technology abstracts hardware from software so resources can be pooled across large groups of machines.
Virtual desktops use virtualization technology that abstracts hardware from software and pools resources across a "cloud" of computers to deliver a PC-like experience over a network connection.
The deep learning frameworks (e.g, TensorFlow, PyTorch, MxNet) together with NVIDIA software libraries offer a high-level programming interface, which abstracts hardware and makes building neural network architecture graphs very intuitive.
In an interview with Forbes, Citrix chief technologist Simon Crosby, who came to Citrix when the company acquired XenSource in 2007, declined to discuss Xen.org but noted that just as virtualization abstracts hardware from software, it also abstracts the business concerns of technology companies focused on hardware and those focused on software.
In our work, we do not use simulation to abstract heterogeneous hardware, but we use a distributed simulation platform, based on HLA and adapted to provide interoperability among heterogeneous hardware platforms.
The compute model allows one to abstract away hardware details such as platform capacity (e.g., number of lookup tables [LUTs]) and the detailed cycle-by-cycle timing of hardware implementation.
While IaaS helped them abstract away hardware, these services help them abstract away even the operating system.
Like many companies breaking barriers in this space, Joyent offers new ways to abstract the hardware through server and network virtualization, operations management and customer self-service.
Regardless of whether the story centered on multi-clouds, hybrid on-premises/cloud solutions, or how to secure everything, the common theme on the show floor was how vendors are able to abstract underlying hardware and physical configurations with a Software-Defined approach.
The middle layer consists of a collection of software modules, called the operating system, that abstracts these hardware resources into a convenient application-programming interface.
