Category: Work

Info on Speculative Side Channels

CPU Side Channel Graphic

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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Empowering CUDA Developers with Virtual Desktops (Part3)

Benefits of Virtualizing the CUDA Toolkit

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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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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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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GTC16 Session: S6245 – IT-as-a-Service With Visually Intensive VDI

GTC 2016 Session S6245 – IT-as-a-Service With Visually Intensive VDI I wanted to provide access to my session materials for my GTC 2016 session S6245 on IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) with Visually Intensive VDI. In this blog you can review a pdf version of the slide deck that I presented at GTC. If you haven’t guessed there …

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GTC 2016 – Random Thoughts

It’s Wednesday morning of GTC 2016 a bit after 5 AM local time. I’m wide awake because of the time difference and figured I might get some random thoughts down on the GPU Tech Conference (GTC). This is my first year attending GTC regardless of the name tag saying I am an alumnist of the …

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Dynamic HPC Farms

High Performance Compute as a Service (HPCaaS) Continuing on my random ideas post. Here is another item that can be applied to High Performance Compute (HPC) scenarios. With research institutions and the like it is often necessary to wait to use physical HPC clusters to perform research. (It hearkens back to the days of mainframes …

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ArcGIS Virtualization Links

I’ve had some questions about virtualizing ArcGIS and I thought it might be helpful to share the links that I’ve found helpful in architecting around ArcGIS VDI/EUC deployments. Updated 3-19-16 added a couple of additional links. As I’m reviewing my links I’ve discovered that some are no longer relevant or have been updated to include …

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Do you want to build a snowman??? (virtual or otherwise)

Yes you can bash me now for the reference to Disney’s Frozen. When I wrote this a week ago I was sitting at my desk with the doors and windows open enjoying the 70 degree weather here in Kansas while the East coast was getting pounded by #Snowpocalypse. Now that most everyone hates me for one …

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