This note describes creating an ISO image for a fully automatic, customized Ubuntu 18.04 server install.
Note: Setup Git for PowerShell on Windows 10
How to setup PowerShell nicely for using git with command completion and color highlighted shell prompt git status/action notifications.
Notes on “Notes” (new blog post format)
Starting 2020 off with an addition to my writing, “micro blogging” via GitHub Gists
NVIDIA (Computing Hardware) Company of the Decade!
It’s the end of the 2010’s and start of 2020’s. Time to reflect …
SC19 A look at the high end of HPC
The Super Computing conference annual US counterpart is always a great meeting. It’s a chance to see the trend and get sentiment for the highest performance end of computing. I have written up a few observations and provided a few interesting links for SC19.
How To Use MKL with AMD Ryzen and Threadripper CPU’s (Effectively) for Python Numpy (And Other Applications)
In this post I’m going to show you a simple way to significantly speedup Python numpy compute performance on AMD CPU’s when using Anaconda Python.
AMD Threadripper 3970x Compute Performance Linpack and NAMD
AMD Threadripper 3970x 32-core! …The, third new AMD processor I’ve had the pleasure of trying recently. I’m running it through the same double precision floating point performance tests as the recently tested Ryzen processors, Linpack and NAMD.
AMD Ryzen 3950x Compute Performance Linpack and NAMD
The, much anticipated, AMD Ryzen 3950x 16-core processor is out! As always the first thing I wanted know was the double precision floating point performance. My two favorite applications for a “first look” at a new CPU are Linpack and NAMD.
Workstation Setup for Docker with the New NVIDIA Container Toolkit (nvidia-docker2 is deprecated)
It’s time for a “Docker with NVIDIA GPU support” update. This post will guide you through a useful Workstation setup (including User-name-spaces and performance tuning) with the new versions of Docker and the NVIDIA GPU container toolkit.
AMD Ryzen 3900X vs Intel Xeon 2175W Python numpy – MKL vs OpenBLAS
In this post I’ve done more testing with Ryzen 3900X looking at the effect of BLAS libraries on a simple but computationally demanding problem with Python numpy. The results may surprise you! I start with a little bit of history of Intel vs AMD performance to give you what may be a new perspective on the issue.