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Late to the party and a few bits short

I recently had the opportunity to purchase a pristine Novena desktop system. For those who aren’t aware, Novena is a Freescale i.mx6 based open-hardware computing platform which began shipping in 2015.

Extending the Spectrum LSF GUI to display job GPU metrics

I’ve previously written about accounting for GPU workloads in Spectrum LSF using Nvidia DCGM to collect granular metrics including energy consumed, memory used, and overall GPU utilization.

When you got time on your side - create something

As we all settle down into the new norm of being housebound during this global epidemic, it’s given the opportunity to work on projects which would have remained on the back burner for an indefinite period.

Bootup fun: dual-socket POWER9

Well today it’s going to be a short one. For those of you out there who are like me and enjoy watching systems boot, I’ve recorded this brief (~3 minutes) bootup sequence of a dual-socket POWER9 based system.

NUMA on NINE with Spectrum LSF

NUMA (non-uniform memory access) has been written about ad nauseam. For those fans of POWER processors out there, we’ll show briefly in this blog what the NUMA looks like on a dual-socket POWER9 development system.

Intelligent HPC - Keeping Hard Work at Bay(es)

Since the dawn of time, humans have looked for ways to make their lives easier. Over the centuries human ingenuity has given us inventions such as the wheel and simple machines – which help greatly with tasks that would otherwise be extremely laborious.