Today the 2019 NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisors (NGCA) was announced. I am pleased to share that I have been selected to join this wonderful group for another year. You can view the page and other NGCA members on the NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisors page.
For those who don’t know what the NGCA is let me share. In late 2015 early 2016 Rachel Berry (@rhbBSE) and a few other NVIDIA’s started a group called the NGCA. The ‘G’ in NGCA stood for GRID, which is what vGPU used to be when it was a physical GPU card. Remember the K1 and K2 cards?
The idea was to create a direct line of communication between advocates for virtualizing GPUs with and the NVIDIA virtualization team. Not the gaming people or the HPC people, the virtualization people. It’s been really interesting over the last three years to watch how this has sort of morphed into something a bit bigger.
In 2016, providing graphics capabilities to VMs was the big thing. Unlock the closet cases of desktops that couldn’t be virtualized. Now a days, it’s not just about VDI, vGPUs are capable of so much more, and you see a much more diverse group in the NGCA. There are those of us who are looking at how to virtualize systems like HPC and Deep Learning Systems to gain great advantages in the data center.
I am excited to return as a member of this prestigious group and am looking forward to a stellar 2019.
