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Oct 02

Trove of VMware Project Monterey Resources

By Tony in AI, Conferences, Deep Learning, GPU, GTC, HPC, Machine Learning, VMware, VMworld
October 2, 2020

At VMworld 2020 VMware announced a partnership with NVIDIA called project Monterey. One of the central parts of this is SmartNIC’s (BlueField-2 DPU). This post covers some of the publicly available content around the announcement.

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Jan 08

Farming NVIDIA Jetson Based Thin Clients

By Tony in AI, Deep Learning, GPU, Horizon, HPC, Large Scale Compute, Machine Learning, NVIDIA Jetson
January 8, 2020

In most organizations GPU powered thin clients (or any thin clients for that matter) are used for about 8 hours a day and the rest of the time they sit idle, not delivering value to the organization. Why not use their GPU processing power to accelerate organizational research?

5G, Composable Infrastructure, Distributed Computing, Fractional GPU Processing, Fractional Processing, Fractional Workload Processing, GPU, Grid Computing, Jetson Nano, Liqid, NVIDIA Jetson Nano, NVIDIA M6000, Smart City, Stratodesk, Thin Clients, Under utilized resources, VDI

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/farming-nvidia-jetson-based-thin-clients/

Sep 19

Workspace One Apple iOS 9.3 Enrollment

By Tony in EMC, VMware, WorkSpace One
September 19, 2019

When enrolling an iOS 9.3 device with the AirWatch Agent. I would make it to step 5 in the list. At which point it would launch a safari web browser to get to the AirWatch MDM site for the organization, so that the device can download a MDM profile. Once it got to the site the progress bard would only progress to about 66% then it would stop responding. If you tried to do anything safari would crash and you would need to restart the enrollment process from the beginning.

AirWatch, AirWatch Agent, Apple, Apple Device, Apple IOS 9.3, Enrollment, IOS, iOS 9.3, MDM, Mobile Device Management, Safari, Safri Crash, VMware, Workspace One, WS1

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/workspace-one-apple-ios-9-3-enrollment/

Mar 13

Scripting VDI By Day and Compute By Night

By Tony in Deep Learning, GPU, Horizon, HPC, Large Scale Compute, Machine Learning, NGCA, PowerCLI, Programming, vExpert
March 13, 2019

Over the weekend I finished writing a PowerCLI script to do VDI by day and compute by night. In in this post I’m going to share the script and how to set it up with you.

For those not familiar with the term VDI by day and compute by night here is my vision for it. Let’s say you have a bunch of VDI users who are structural engineers. They typically work from 8 in the morning to 5 or so at night. On their VDI desktops they have programs like like AutoCAD which require high end GPUs, but since they are using VDI they’re virtual GPUs or vGPUs. That means you have these high end GPUs that might be sitting idle for 12 to 16 hours a day and the organization spent a lot of money for those GPUs.

Now what if you could use those GPUs for something other than just engineers virtual desktops? You know, get a little more millage out of them. The R&D department keeps wanting more servers for their high performance computing (HPC) farm… What could 12 extra hours a day of GPU time coming from the Engineers idle VDI hosts do to help them?

Cycle Harvesting, Deep Learning, DL, EUC, HPC, Machine Learning, ML, Power Shell, PowerCLI, PowerShell, Reclaim Resources, Script, Scripting, VDI by Day Compute by Night, vGPU, vGPU Capacity, vGPU Carrying Capacity, vGPU Cycle Harvesting, VMware Horizon, VMware PowerCLI, VMware {Code}

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Feb 19

Number of vGPUs Available in vSphere

By Tony in AI, Deep Learning, GPU, Horizon, Machine Learning, PowerCLI, Programming, VMware
February 19, 2019

I’ve been working on a PowerCLI function for the last few months in my free time and now I’d like to share it with everyone. This is a pretty spiffy function for those folks working with vGPUs, and it’s not just for VDI it can help those looking to virtualize ML/DL systems too. It calculates the vGPU carrying capacity of a vSphere environment.

Code, Deep Learning, Display Controller, DL, EUC, Get-VM, Get-VMhostPciDevice, GRID, Horizon, Horizon vGPU, Horizon vGPU capacity, Horizon View, Machine Learning, Max vGPU, ML, NVIDIA, NVIDIA GRID, P4, P40, Power Shell, PowerCLI, PowerShell, Script, Snipit, VDI, VDI by Day Compute by Night, vGPU, vGPU Capacity, vGPU Carrying Capacity, vGPU Cycle Harvesting, vGPU Scheduling, VMware Horizon, VMware Horizon View, VMware PowerCLI, VMware {Code}

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/number-of-vgpus-available-in-vsphere/

Feb 17

2019 NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisors

By Tony in GPU, Large Scale Compute, NGCA, VMware
February 17, 2019

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 again for another year.

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Oct 26

vGPU PowerCLI Commands

By Tony in GPU, NGCA, Programming, VMware
October 26, 2018

I’m a noob when it comes to PowerCLI, I can Get-VM like most everyone else, but not much more. You may have seen my previous post about Taking Back Resources where I talked about the theory and logic behind vGPU cycle harvesting. Right now I’m working on putting it into action and the best way …

Code, Display Controller, Get-VM, Get-VMhostPciDevice, GRID, NVIDIA, NVIDIA GRID, P4, PowerCLI, Snipit, vGPU, VMware PowerCLI, VMware {Code}

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/vgpu-powercli-commands/

Sep 14

Taking Back Resources

By Tony in AI, CUDA, Deep Learning, GPU, Horizon, HPC, Large Scale Compute, Machine Learning, NGCA, vExpert
September 14, 2018

In this post I’m looking at reclaiming resources from virtual environments. To which you might be saying that’s simple, VMware put out a white paper on cycle harvesting. https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/solutions/vmware-jackson-national-life-insurance-white-paper.pdf The above paper was based on what a VMware customer did to reclaim idle CPU resources from their VDI environment. They did this by setting share …

AI, Best Effort, Cycle Harvesting, Deep Learning, DL, Equal Share, Fixed Share, GPU, High Performance Computing, HPC, Machine Learning, ML, NVIDIA, Scripting, Share Values, Shares, VDI, vGPU, vGPU Cycle Harvesting, vGPU Scheduling, vGPU Suspend and Resume

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/taking-back-resources/

Sep 06

VMworld Session VAP2340BU – Driving Organizational Value by Virtualizing AI/ML/DL and HPC Workloads

By Tony in EUC Champions, GPU, Horizon, NGCA, vExpert, VMworld
September 6, 2018

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our session at VMworld! And an even bigger thanks to those visiting who weren’t able to attend in person. Gina and I want to make sure you have the resources you need to understand how you can gain a competitive advantage by virtualizing your AI/ML/DL/ and …

AI, DL, GPU, HPC, ML, NVIDIA, PVRDMA, VAP2340BU, VDI, vGPU, VMworld, VMworld 2018, Workloads

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/vap2340bu/

Apr 06

NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit Test Script

By Tony in CUDA, GPU, GTC, Horizon, NGCA
April 6, 2018

At GTC18 I mentioned that I created a script to run through all the samples in the CUDA Toolkit. I had a few moments so I thought I’d share the code. You can use the code below to loop through the sample files. If you are interested in the results I obtained on VMs with …

Bash Shell, Code, CUDA, CUDA Toolkit, GPU, NGCA, NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit, NVIDIA-SMI, Script, Shell Script, Testing

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/cuda-toolkit-test-script/

Category: VMware

Trove of VMware Project Monterey Resources

Farming NVIDIA Jetson Based Thin Clients

Workspace One Apple iOS 9.3 Enrollment

Scripting VDI By Day and Compute By Night

Number of vGPUs Available in vSphere

2019 NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisors

vGPU PowerCLI Commands

VMworld Session VAP2340BU – Driving Organizational Value by Virtualizing AI/ML/DL and HPC Workloads

NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit Test Script

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