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GTC17 Session S7349 Slides & Links

GTC S7349 Slide Cover

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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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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Error Using gpumodeswitch

Remove Passthrough for GPU

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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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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Doubly Honored

Dell EMC Elect 2017

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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This Space NOT For #Rent

Not For Rent Sign. Black background with red border. Not is scribbled in along with Don't bother in the call blank.

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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Good Sounding Virtual Desktops

speaker with sound bars and a no symbol across it

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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Distributed Computing Protecting Archeological Sites

Deep learning to detect looting

    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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Inaugural NVIDIA GRID Community Advisor 

Powered By NVIDIA GRID

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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LISA 16 – Data Center Virtual Realities

LISA 16 Instructor Button

You may or may not have seen my tweet about submitting a Workshop for LISA 16. On June 6th I was notified that my workshop was accepted. I’ve been a little per-occupied with work till now to get details up about the workshop. Proposal for #LISA16 submitted on #VR for the data center. What can …

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