Sep 14
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
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 …
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Apr 06
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 …
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Apr 04
GTC 2018 concluded on Thursday afternoon and this post took me a bit longer than planned. It’s time for my now annual GTC wrap up post. In this post I share my thoughts, opinions, and personal experience on this years conference. This is my 3rd year attending GTC and it’s amazing how much has changed …
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Mar 26
Thank you to all attendees who started GTC18 at this session. I hope it was helpful for you. When recordings are available I will add them to this post as well. For your enjoyment, here are the slides from my GTC18 session, S8483, Empowering CUDA Developers with Virtual Desktops. If you are interested in the …
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Jan 09
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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Jan 08
Do you need another reason to attend the GPU Tech Conference this March? How about this… I’ll be there and I’ll be presenting on something I’m sure you want to know about. I’ll be presenting session is S8483, “Empowering CUDA Developers with Virtual Desktops.” (I’ll update the post when the time and day are scheduled, …
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Jan 04
On December 14th the members of the 2018 NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisors (NGCA) were announced. I can’t tell you how excited I am to be part of this distinguished group of community members. The announcement listing all the outstanding thought leaders who have been selected as community advisors can be found here: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/12/14/introducing-new-ngca-members/ Each member …
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Oct 19
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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Oct 19
In this blog post we are looking at how to install the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit and its basic setup. In the previous blog post we looked at the typical problem encountered when trying to install the CUDA Toolkit in a virtualized environment with a vGPU. In the follow on to this post (Part 3) I …
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