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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Mar 30
Yesterday, March 29, 2017, two community announcements were made. One was for the 2017 VMware EUC Champions program and one was for the 2017 Dell EMC Elect. I was selected for both recognition’s. I feel doubly honored to be part of both amazing groups. For those who don’t know about the Dell EMC Elect it …
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Dec 10
You’re prepping an image for use with a VMware Horizon deployment. You get all your applications tweaked and life is good. You optimized your image with the VMware OS Optimization Tool Fling. You go and test it, it appears to work great. On to the next task, oh wait you didn’t hear the familiar sound …
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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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Mar 19
High Performance Compute as a Service (HPCaaS) Continuing on my random ideas post. Here is another item that can be applied to High Performance Compute (HPC) scenarios. With research institutions and the like it is often necessary to wait to use physical HPC clusters to perform research. (It hearkens back to the days of mainframes …
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Mar 08
I’ve had some questions about virtualizing ArcGIS and I thought it might be helpful to share the links that I’ve found helpful in architecting around ArcGIS VDI/EUC deployments. Updated 3-19-16 added a couple of additional links. As I’m reviewing my links I’ve discovered that some are no longer relevant or have been updated to include …
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