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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.

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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 …

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Apr 05

Join Me at GTC 2017

By Tony in GPU, GTC, Horizon, NGCA
April 5, 2017

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

Distributed Computing Protecting Archeological Sites

By Tony in GPU, VMworld
September 13, 2016

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. …

BOINC, Crowd Sourcing, Deep Learning, Distributed Computing, GPU, Grid Computing, Looting, Turking, VMworld

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Aug 10

LISA 16 – Data Center Virtual Realities

By Tony in GPU, USENIX, VMware
August 10, 2016

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 …

AR, Augmented Reality, Cloud Visualization, Data Center Analytics, Deep Learning, GPU, GRID, LISA 16, NVIDIA, Self-Learning, Usenix, Virtual Reality, VR

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Mar 26

Deep Learing in Virtual Data Center Management

By Tony in GPU, VMware
March 26, 2016

During VMworld San Francisco I had the opportunity as a VMware vExpert to attend a special breakfast that SIOS put on and which my friend David Klee was speaking at. This was a pretty cool session about how SIOS was using data analytics to look at the health of the data center. SIOS Technology Corp …