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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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May 08
GTC17 Session S7349 Slides & Links
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
Long List of Links for Configuring Linux Desktop VMs
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
Error Using gpumodeswitch
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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Apr 05
Join Me at GTC 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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Mar 30
Doubly Honored
Yesterday, March 29, 2017, two community announcements were made. One was for the 2017 VMware EUC Champions program and one was for the 2017 Dell EMC Elect. I was selected for both recognition’s. I feel doubly honored to be part of both amazing groups. For those who don’t know about the Dell EMC Elect it …
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Mar 23
This Space NOT For #Rent
Of late I have been hearing about companies strongly ‘asking’ their employees to publish corporate content on their personal social media feeds like Twitter, Facebook, and Linked-In. I’m not a fan of letting employers spam my friends. If I want to share something it needs to be something I’m interested in and something my followers …
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Dec 10
Good Sounding Virtual Desktops
You’re prepping an image for use with a VMware Horizon deployment. You get all your applications tweaked and life is good. You optimized your image with the VMware OS Optimization Tool Fling. You go and test it, it appears to work great. On to the next task, oh wait you didn’t hear the familiar sound …
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Sep 13
Distributed Computing Protecting Archeological Sites
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. …
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Aug 15
Inaugural NVIDIA GRID Community Advisor
Recently I was selected as a member of the inaugural group of the NVIDIA GRID Community Advisors. This is a great honor for me and I feel extremely fortunate to be one of the twenty individuals selected for the program. “The [NVIDIA GRID Community Advisor Program] brings together the talents of individuals who have invested …
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