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Oct 06 2021

Talk Nerdy to Me VMworld {code} Session 2778

By Tony in AI, Deep Learning, Dell Technologies, GPU, HPC, Machine Learning, NGCA, Python, vExpert, VMware, VMworld
October 6, 2021

Here you will find resources from VMworld Code Session 2778 – Talk Nerdy to Me, Using Python to Create VMs with vGPUs for AI Workloads.

Code, GPU, NVIDIA, programming, Python, Python Programming, vGPU, VMware, VMware {Code}, VMworld

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Oct 05 2021

VMTN2835 – Update to VDI by Day Compute by Night

By Tony in AI, Deep Learning, GPU, Horizon, HPC, Machine Learning, NGCA, PowerCLI, vExpert, VMworld
October 5, 2021

This is post for my VMworld 2021 vBrownbag session VMTN2835. This session covers updates to the VDI by day compute by night scripts that I’ve been writing and updating for a couple of years. You can download all of the modules needed for this from my GitHub repo.

AI, Code, Coding, EUC, GPU, Horizon, HPC, ML, NVIDIA, NVIDIA GRID, PowerCLI, PowerShell, VDI, VDI by day, VDI by Day Compute by Night, vGPU, VMware, VMware Code, VMworld

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Apr 13

Harnessing the Power of Python to Control vGPU Management in VMware vSphere – GTC 2021 Session E32023

By Tony in AI, Deep Learning, GPU, GTC, HPC, Machine Learning, NGCA, Python, VMware
April 13, 2021

In this blog I provide some insights on managing vGPUs in vSphere with Python. It sounds like a simple task to control vGPUs in vSphere, but its not as easy as it appears. I got deep into this as Johan and I were working on content for this session. I’ll cover all that and more …

GPU, GTC, GTC21, NGCA, NVIDIA, NVIDIA GPU, NVIDIA vGPU, NVML, programming, Python, Python Programming, PyVmomi, vGPU, VMware, VMware vGPU

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Oct 05

Sneak Peak at the Brand New Jetson Nano 2GB

By Tony in AI, CUDA, Deep Learning, GTC, NGCA, NVIDIA Jetson
October 5, 2020

How would you like a sneak peak at the brand new NVIDIA Jetson Nano 2GB Developer Kit? I have the hook up for you. NVIDIA sent one of these $59 Developer Kits for me to try.

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Oct 02

Trove of VMware Project Monterey Resources

By Tony in AI, Conferences, Deep Learning, GPU, GTC, HPC, Machine Learning, VMware, VMworld
October 2, 2020

At VMworld 2020 VMware announced a partnership with NVIDIA called project Monterey. One of the central parts of this is SmartNIC’s (BlueField-2 DPU). This post covers some of the publicly available content around the announcement.

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Jan 08

Farming NVIDIA Jetson Based Thin Clients

By Tony in AI, Deep Learning, GPU, Horizon, HPC, Large Scale Compute, Machine Learning, NVIDIA Jetson
January 8, 2020

In most organizations GPU powered thin clients (or any thin clients for that matter) are used for about 8 hours a day and the rest of the time they sit idle, not delivering value to the organization. Why not use their GPU processing power to accelerate organizational research?

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Mar 13

Scripting VDI By Day and Compute By Night

By Tony in Deep Learning, GPU, Horizon, HPC, Large Scale Compute, Machine Learning, NGCA, PowerCLI, Programming, vExpert
March 13, 2019

Over the weekend I finished writing a PowerCLI script to do VDI by day and compute by night. In in this post I’m going to share the script and how to set it up with you.

For those not familiar with the term VDI by day and compute by night here is my vision for it. Let’s say you have a bunch of VDI users who are structural engineers. They typically work from 8 in the morning to 5 or so at night. On their VDI desktops they have programs like like AutoCAD which require high end GPUs, but since they are using VDI they’re virtual GPUs or vGPUs. That means you have these high end GPUs that might be sitting idle for 12 to 16 hours a day and the organization spent a lot of money for those GPUs.

Now what if you could use those GPUs for something other than just engineers virtual desktops? You know, get a little more millage out of them. The R&D department keeps wanting more servers for their high performance computing (HPC) farm… What could 12 extra hours a day of GPU time coming from the Engineers idle VDI hosts do to help them?

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Feb 19

Number of vGPUs Available in vSphere

By Tony in AI, Deep Learning, GPU, Horizon, Machine Learning, PowerCLI, Programming, VMware
February 19, 2019

I’ve been working on a PowerCLI function for the last few months in my free time and now I’d like to share it with everyone. This is a pretty spiffy function for those folks working with vGPUs, and it’s not just for VDI it can help those looking to virtualize ML/DL systems too. It calculates the vGPU carrying capacity of a vSphere environment.

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Sep 14

Taking Back Resources

By Tony in AI, CUDA, Deep Learning, GPU, Horizon, HPC, Large Scale Compute, Machine Learning, NGCA, vExpert
September 14, 2018

In this post I’m looking at reclaiming resources from virtual environments. To which you might be saying that’s simple, VMware put out a white paper on cycle harvesting. https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/solutions/vmware-jackson-national-life-insurance-white-paper.pdf The above paper was based on what a VMware customer did to reclaim idle CPU resources from their VDI environment. They did this by setting share …