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Aug 28

VMware Explore VMTN3081LV – AI on the Horizon: Delivering Virtualized AI Environments to Students

By Tony in AI, Explore, GPU, Horizon, vExpert
August 28, 2023

Thank you to everyone who joined me for VMTN3081LV at VMware Explore. It was great having the opportunity to present AI on the Horizon: Delivering Virtualized AI Environments to Students.

AI, Education, GPU, Horizon, NVIDIA, NVIDIA GRID, VDI, vGPU, VMware, VMware Explore

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/blog/vmware-explore-vmtn3081lv-ai-on-the-horizon-delivering-virtualized-ai-environments-to-students/

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

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/blog/vmtn2835-update-to-vdi-by-day-compute-by-night/

Oct 04 2021

New PowerCLI Module – Finding vGPU Profiles

By Tony in GPU, Horizon, PowerCLI
October 4, 2021

A deep dive on a PowerCLI module for finding vGPU profiles, used as part of VDI by day Compute by Night scripts. This PowerShell script finds what vGPU profiles are supported by a given set of hosts and reports it back as an object collection.

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

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/blog/powershell-module-finding-vgpu-profiles/

Aug 27 2021

Talk Nerdy to me & Updates at VMworld

By Tony in AI, Conferences, GPU, Horizon, Machine Learning, NGCA, PowerCLI, Python, vExpert, VMworld
August 27, 2021

It’s VMworld time! Hopefully you’ve registered for VMworld. In this post you’ll find some of the sessions I’m presenting & some you wont want to miss.

CODE2778, Conference, GPU, NVIDIA, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, sessions, vBrownBag, vBrownbag Tech Talk, VDI, vGPU, VMTN2835, VMware, VMware {Code}, VMworld

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/blog/talk-nerdy-to-me-updates-at-vmworld/

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?

5G, Composable Infrastructure, Distributed Computing, Fractional GPU Processing, Fractional Processing, Fractional Workload Processing, GPU, Grid Computing, Jetson Nano, Liqid, NVIDIA Jetson Nano, NVIDIA M6000, Smart City, Stratodesk, Thin Clients, Under utilized resources, VDI

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/blog/farming-nvidia-jetson-based-thin-clients/

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?

Cycle Harvesting, Deep Learning, DL, EUC, HPC, Machine Learning, ML, Power Shell, PowerCLI, PowerShell, Reclaim Resources, Script, Scripting, VDI by Day Compute by Night, vGPU, vGPU Capacity, vGPU Carrying Capacity, vGPU Cycle Harvesting, VMware Horizon, VMware PowerCLI, VMware {Code}

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/blog/scripting-vdi-by-day-and-compute-by-night/

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.

Code, Deep Learning, Display Controller, DL, EUC, Get-VM, Get-VMhostPciDevice, GRID, Horizon, Horizon vGPU, Horizon vGPU capacity, Horizon View, Machine Learning, Max vGPU, ML, NVIDIA, NVIDIA GRID, P4, P40, Power Shell, PowerCLI, PowerShell, Script, Snipit, VDI, VDI by Day Compute by Night, vGPU, vGPU Capacity, vGPU Carrying Capacity, vGPU Cycle Harvesting, vGPU Scheduling, VMware Horizon, VMware Horizon View, VMware PowerCLI, VMware {Code}

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/blog/number-of-vgpus-available-in-vsphere/

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 …

AI, Best Effort, Cycle Harvesting, Deep Learning, DL, Equal Share, Fixed Share, GPU, High Performance Computing, HPC, Machine Learning, ML, NVIDIA, Scripting, Share Values, Shares, VDI, vGPU, vGPU Cycle Harvesting, vGPU Scheduling, vGPU Suspend and Resume

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/blog/taking-back-resources/

Sep 06

VMworld Session VAP2340BU – Driving Organizational Value by Virtualizing AI/ML/DL and HPC Workloads

By Tony in EUC Champions, GPU, Horizon, NGCA, vExpert, VMworld
September 6, 2018

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our session at VMworld! And an even bigger thanks to those visiting who weren’t able to attend in person. Gina and I want to make sure you have the resources you need to understand how you can gain a competitive advantage by virtualizing your AI/ML/DL/ and …

AI, DL, GPU, HPC, ML, NVIDIA, PVRDMA, VAP2340BU, VDI, vGPU, VMworld, VMworld 2018, Workloads

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/blog/vap2340bu/

Apr 06

NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit Test Script

By Tony in CUDA, GPU, GTC, Horizon, NGCA
April 6, 2018

At GTC18 I mentioned that I created a script to run through all the samples in the CUDA Toolkit. I had a few moments so I thought I’d share the code. You can use the code below to loop through the sample files. If you are interested in the results I obtained on VMs with …

Bash Shell, Code, CUDA, CUDA Toolkit, GPU, NGCA, NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit, NVIDIA-SMI, Script, Shell Script, Testing

Permanent link to this article: https://www.wondernerd.net/blog/cuda-toolkit-test-script/

Category: Horizon

VMware Explore VMTN3081LV – AI on the Horizon: Delivering Virtualized AI Environments to Students

VMTN2835 – Update to VDI by Day Compute by Night

New PowerCLI Module – Finding vGPU Profiles

Talk Nerdy to me & Updates at VMworld

Farming NVIDIA Jetson Based Thin Clients

Scripting VDI By Day and Compute By Night

Number of vGPUs Available in vSphere

VMworld Session VAP2340BU – Driving Organizational Value by Virtualizing AI/ML/DL and HPC Workloads

NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit Test Script

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