NIVIDA announced availability of the the Titan V card Friday December 8th. We had a couple in hand for testing on Monday December 11th, nice! I ran through many of the machine learning and simulation testing problems that I have done on Titan cards in the past. Results are not the near doubling in performance of past generations… but read on.

A quick look at Titan V rendering performance
The latest in the Titan line is here, bringing along with it a very hefty price tag. We just got our first cards in and while we will be doing more in-depth testing in the near future, we wanted to take a look at some preliminary GPU-based rendering results.
Intel Skylake-X vs Skylake-W
The new Intel core-i9 and core-i7 “enthusiast” “X”, Skylake-X processors and the single socket Xeon Skylake-W (Workstation) processors seem nearly identical. I’ll discuss the differences and make my recommendation on which to use.
The Tarantula Hawk
“My report is on the tarantula hawk. Can you read it and look for mistakes?”
My son handed me a sheet of well-worn paper with thick lines and plenty of space for a fourth grader to write. I took a red marker in hand and began reading about the tarantula hunting wasp.

NVIDIA Titan V Surprise
NVIDIA’s CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, dropped a bit of a bombshell at the NIPS conference yesterday: the launch – and immediate availability – of the next graphics card in NVIDIA’s Titan series. It is called the Titan V, with V referring to the new Volta architecture it is based on. So what can we expect from the latest entry in the Titan lineup?

How To Prevent The Intel Turbo Boost Max 3.0 Software From Launching On Startup
We have had a number of customers report that after installing recent Windows updates, they are now seeing a pop up for the Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 software on each boot of their system. This article will guide you through how to disable the software from launching, shall you wish to do so.
Intel Scalable Processors Xeon Skylake-SP (Purley) Buyers Guide
Intel Purley platform, Skylake-SP, Xeon “Scalable” processors (Platinum, Gold, Sliver, Bronze) are here. All 58 of them! Hopefully this post will help you to decide which of these (excellent) processors may be of use for your applications. I trim the list do to just a few of my favorites and break them down by use-case.

HTC Vive Compositor Error
In this article I will share my experience of getting a disruptive VR error when setting up an HTC Vive for a family VR event. The VR issue I experienced was “Compositor is not fullscreen”. This article will cover why the issue occurs and the troubleshooting to do to find a solution.

Case Study for Klip Collective
Klip Collective uses Puget Systems PC’s powered by NVIDIA Quadro cards to create and deliver large-scale projection mapping events.
ARM for Supercomputing a view from SC17
ARM for HPC? Supercomputers using ARM processors? Yes! I was at SC17 last week and ARM was a hot topic. There are new ARM processor designs that are fully competitive with Intel and AMD CPU’s for high performance computing.




