Packaging used for the Foundation Central Appliance bundle and for deployment files that install Prism Central at dark sites. It is a file archive format.
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains TAR in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Foundation Central Appliance
Not to be confused with Foundation Central, the Prism Central app. This separate VM has a simple interface of its own and, on day 0, can image nodes with no cluster formed or build compute clusters backed by external storage.
- Model deployment
Inside a resource, each deployment is a named copy of a Foundry model with its own TPM quota and deployment type. Requests identify the model by this deployment name.
- Prism Central
A standalone instance, made up of either one VM or three in scale-out form, for monitoring and managing many clusters centrally.
- Archive
Offline access tier for blobs, cheapest to store yet dearest to access. Reading a blob means rehydrating it first, which can take as long as 15 hours.
- FORMAT
A DAX function that turns a value into text according to a format string, for instance "MMMM" to show a month's name. Since the output is text, numeric operations can't use it, and dynamic format strings were introduced to get around that.