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Oct 05 2021

VMTN2835 – Update to VDI by Day Compute by Night

By Tony in AI, Deep Learning, GPU, Horizon, HPC, Machine Learning, NGCA, PowerCLI, vExpert, VMworld
October 5, 2021

This is post for my VMworld 2021 vBrownbag session VMTN2835. This session covers updates to the VDI by day compute by night scripts that I’ve been writing and updating for a couple of years. You can download all of the modules needed for this from my GitHub repo.

AI, Code, Coding, EUC, GPU, Horizon, HPC, ML, NVIDIA, NVIDIA GRID, PowerCLI, PowerShell, VDI, VDI by day, VDI by Day Compute by Night, vGPU, VMware, VMware Code, VMworld

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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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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

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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

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Mar 19

Dynamic HPC Farms

By Tony in EMC, GPU, Horizon, VMware
March 19, 2016

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 …

3D Graphics, ArcGIS, Cluster, Clustering, EHC, EMC, GPU, Horizon View, HPC, HPCaaS, Ideas, NSX, NVIDIA, NVIDIA GRID, PowerCLI, VDI, vGPU, VMware

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Mar 05

GPUs and Detecting Pestilence

By Tony in GPU, Horizon, Miscellaneous
March 5, 2016

This is a project that has been on my mind for about a year now. Chalk this up as another crazy idea that could make someone a lot of money. About a year ago, it was announced that K-State University (proud alumnus) would be partnering with Australia’s Queensland University of Technology in a really cool …