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GTC18, Session S8483 – Links

A tile for more information

Thank you to everyone who attended session S8483, Empowering CUDA Developers with Virtual Desktops, at GTC. Below are the links provided in the session today. If you have questions or need additional resources please contact me or leave a message in the comment section below. The items below that begin with a ‘/’ are shortened …

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GTC18 Session S8483 – Empowering CUDA Developers with Virtual Desktops

S8483 - Empowering CUDA Developers with Virtual Desktops - Slide Deck

Thank you to all attendees who started GTC18 at this session. I hope it was helpful for you. When recordings are available I will add them to this post as well. For your enjoyment, here are the slides from my GTC18 session, S8483, Empowering CUDA Developers with Virtual Desktops. If you are interested in the …

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Info on Speculative Side Channels

CPU Side Channel Graphic

I’ve been watching much of the Speculative Side Channel issues (AKA Specter and Meltdown) that have arisen as of late with processors such as Intel (INTC), AMD (AMD), and ARM. I wanted to make it easy for everyone (and myself) to find information that’s been helpful since this bug was announced. Many of the links …

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Join me at GTC18

Join Me at GTC18, March 26-29

Do you need another reason to attend the GPU Tech Conference this March? How about this… I’ll be there and I’ll be presenting on something I’m sure you want to know about. I’ll be presenting session is S8483, “Empowering CUDA Developers with Virtual Desktops.” (I’ll update the post when the time and day are scheduled, …

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Empowering CUDA Developers with Virtual Desktops (Part3)

Benefits of Virtualizing the CUDA Toolkit

Woot!!! You’ve made it this far, or maybe you started here. In Part1 of this blog we looked at the problem of installing the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit on a virtual machine (VM). In Part2 we looked at how to install the CUDA Toolkit on a VM. This post covers why installing the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit …

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Empowering CUDA Developers with Virtual Desktops (Part2)

In this blog post we are looking at how to install the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit and its basic setup. In the previous blog post we looked at the typical problem encountered when trying to install the CUDA Toolkit in a virtualized environment with a vGPU.  In the follow on to this post (Part 3) I …

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Empowering CUDA Developers with Virtual Desktops (Part1)

NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit Virtual Deployment Model

I’m very excited to share with everyone that I have successfully installed the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit on a Linux CentOS 7 Virtual Desktop running on Horizon 7.1 in my home lab. (No, I’m not the first but its a big deal for me.) You might be thinking “big deal you’ve deployed an app on a …

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VMworld VMTN6636U: GPU Enabled Linux VDI

Front slide of VMworld Session

It’s Wednesday of VMworld… Today I present my vBrownbag Tech Talk on GPU Enabled Linux VDI (VMTN6636U). I want to provide access to the slides used in this session. I will link the recording here as well once the session is posted. VMTN6636U VMworld Session It’s important to note with the material I’m covering in …

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My NVIDIA GRID 5.0 Testing

Tesla P4 GPU

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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Changing the GPU Virtualization Game

Pascal Series GPUs

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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