Tony

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Jan 08

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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Jan 04

2018 NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisor Program Member

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 27

Thunderbird Email – Cannot Connect to SMTP Server

Network Settings, uncheck IPv6

I had an interesting problem I discovered this afternoon. I get email in a host of different ways, one of which is in Thunderbird, on one of my desktops. I went to send a friend an email and got an error saying “The mail server sent an incorrect greeting: cannot connect to SMTP server [long …

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Oct 19

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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Oct 19

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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Oct 19

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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Aug 30

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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Aug 17

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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Aug 17

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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May 12

GTC17 Wrap Up Report

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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