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Aug 26

VMTN5019U The Thrifty Admin, VDI by Day Compute by Night

By Tony in AI, EUC Champions, GPU, NGCA, PowerCLI, vExpert, VMworld
August 26, 2019

These are the slides from my session on VDI by Day Compute By Night slides from my vBrownBag presentation.

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Mar 19

NVIDIA Jetson Nano – a Quick Look

By Tony in CUDA, GPU, GTC, NGCA, NVIDIA Jetson
March 19, 2019

Yesterday, March 18th, the NVIDIA Jetson Nano was announced at GTC. As you left the keynote (or when you got back to the San Jose Convention Center) you could purchase one for $99. I purchased a Nano and thought I’d give you a quick look at it.

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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 …

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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 …