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Mar 26
GTC18 Session S8483 – Empowering CUDA Developers with Virtual Desktops
Thank you to all attendees who started GTC18 at this session. I hope it was helpful for you. When recordings are available I will add them to this post as well. For your enjoyment, here are the slides from my GTC18 session, S8483, Empowering CUDA Developers with Virtual Desktops. If you are interested in the …
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Feb 14
Happy Day After Yesterday
Happy day after yesterday y’all, You may or may not have noticed that many of the emails or calls with me start out with “Happy <day>” (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, etc.). Every so often I get the question why are you always so happy? People want to figure out my trick… This is a …
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Jan 09
Info on Speculative Side Channels
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 08
Join me at GTC18
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
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)
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)
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
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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