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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Jan 04
On December 14th the members of the 2018 NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisors (NGCA) were announced. I can’t tell you how excited I am to be part of this distinguished group of community members. The announcement listing all the outstanding thought leaders who have been selected as community advisors can be found here: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/12/14/introducing-new-ngca-members/ Each member …
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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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Oct 19
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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Oct 19
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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Aug 30
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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May 12
Time for my yearly wrap up from GTC 2017. In my post I want to share the good and not so good highlights from my trip to GTC17. These are provided to give constructive feedback about both what is done right and some of the rough areas attendees (me) experienced. GTC is fast becoming my …
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May 08
This post is about GTC Session S7349, “Getting Started with GPUs for Linux Virtual Desktops on VMware Horizon.” Attached to the post is the slide deck presented in the session and below a list of links referenced in the session. Trey and I appreciate the attendance and hope the information was helpful in getting you …
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May 08
This is a compilation of links that helped me prepare for GTC Session S7349. They aren’t in any particular order and may not be helpful as you are configuring your Linux Virtual Desktop VMs with GPU capabilities. GPU Profiler https://virtuallyvisual.wordpress.com/2016/06/08/gpu-profiler-nvidia-community-tool-and-source-code/ How to benchmark your Linux PCs Performance http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/benchmark-linux-pcs-performance/ GLmark https://sourceforge.net/projects/glmark/ How to deactivate virbr0? …
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Apr 25
This is a quick little post about something I ran into of late setting up an NVIDIA GRID M60 GPU on an ESXi 6.0 update 2 host. Though this should apply (haven’t tested) to all version of VMware ESXi as well as the M10 and M6 model GPUs (again haven’t tested). The M60 card was …
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