Aug 17
In my previous post I covered some of what is new with NVIDIA GRID 5.0 and the NVIDIA Pascal cards. In this post I’m going to cover some of the testing I’ve done with GRID 5.0 and the NVIDIA Tesla P4 GPU. NVIDIA was nice enough to provide the NVIDIA GRID Community Advisors (NGCA) access …
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Aug 17
Today NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA GRID August 2017 release (AKA GRID 5.0), it is a major change for the virtualization industry. Over the next few days I will be publishing a few blogs about the NVIDIA GRID vPC (Virtual PC) and Quadro vDWS (Virtual Data Center Workstation). This blog covers some of what’s new with …
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May 08
This post is about GTC Session S7349, “Getting Started with GPUs for Linux Virtual Desktops on VMware Horizon.” Attached to the post is the slide deck presented in the session and below a list of links referenced in the session. Trey and I appreciate the attendance and hope the information was helpful in getting you …
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May 08
This is a compilation of links that helped me prepare for GTC Session S7349. They aren’t in any particular order and may not be helpful as you are configuring your Linux Virtual Desktop VMs with GPU capabilities. GPU Profiler https://virtuallyvisual.wordpress.com/2016/06/08/gpu-profiler-nvidia-community-tool-and-source-code/ How to benchmark your Linux PCs Performance http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/benchmark-linux-pcs-performance/ GLmark https://sourceforge.net/projects/glmark/ How to deactivate virbr0? …
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Apr 25
This is a quick little post about something I ran into of late setting up an NVIDIA GRID M60 GPU on an ESXi 6.0 update 2 host. Though this should apply (haven’t tested) to all version of VMware ESXi as well as the M10 and M6 model GPUs (again haven’t tested). The M60 card was …
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Apr 05
I will be attending the GPU Tech Conference (GTC) in May. This is the don’t miss GPU event of the year. Last year was my first year attending GTC and I hope not to miss it going forward. GTC has lots of great content around VDI, Deep Learning, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and many other areas. …
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Sep 13
Sarah Parcak Satellite Archaeologist, University of Alabama at Birmingham Winner of the TED Prize for 2016. Like a space age Indiana Jones, Sarah uses satellite imagery to locate lost ancient sites. Winner of the prestigious 2016 TED Prize, she is making civilization’s invisible history truly visible and offering new understandings of our past. …
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Aug 15
Recently I was selected as a member of the inaugural group of the NVIDIA GRID Community Advisors. This is a great honor for me and I feel extremely fortunate to be one of the twenty individuals selected for the program. “The [NVIDIA GRID Community Advisor Program] brings together the talents of individuals who have invested …
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Aug 10
You may or may not have seen my tweet about submitting a Workshop for LISA 16. On June 6th I was notified that my workshop was accepted. I’ve been a little per-occupied with work till now to get details up about the workshop. Proposal for #LISA16 submitted on #VR for the data center. What can …
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Apr 07
GTC 2016 Session S6245 – IT-as-a-Service With Visually Intensive VDI I wanted to provide access to my session materials for my GTC 2016 session S6245 on IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) with Visually Intensive VDI. In this blog you can review a pdf version of the slide deck that I presented at GTC. If you haven’t guessed there …
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