Jan 09
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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Oct 19
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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Mar 23
Of late I have been hearing about companies strongly ‘asking’ their employees to publish corporate content on their personal social media feeds like Twitter, Facebook, and Linked-In. I’m not a fan of letting employers spam my friends. If I want to share something it needs to be something I’m interested in and something my followers …
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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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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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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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Apr 06
It’s Wednesday morning of GTC 2016 a bit after 5 AM local time. I’m wide awake because of the time difference and figured I might get some random thoughts down on the GPU Tech Conference (GTC). This is my first year attending GTC regardless of the name tag saying I am an alumnist of the …
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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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Feb 04
Yes you can bash me now for the reference to Disney’s Frozen. When I wrote this a week ago I was sitting at my desk with the doors and windows open enjoying the 70 degree weather here in Kansas while the East coast was getting pounded by #Snowpocalypse. Now that most everyone hates me for one …
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