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Improvement Through Feedback

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For nearly three years now I’ve been calling our customers after they purchase a computer. I don’t work off a script and no two calls are the same.

I might call to check in to make sure your new computer arrived safely. I might call to see if you’re happy with your purchase after you’ve had a few weeks to run the new system through its paces. And I’ll be honest, sometimes I call customers to shoot the breeze. A few weeks ago, I called a man who was on his way up the mountain to plant his skis into fresh powder. I told him I lived in Utah, and we spent the next 10 minutes talking about our favorite ski resorts.

Upgrading to Gigabit Fiber Internet

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I recently upgraded my home internet connection, and I now officially have the fastest internet of anyone here at Puget Systems – even faster, technically, that our connection at the office. What did I get, you ask? CenturyLink 1 Gigabit Fiber Internet. Here is my account of how installation went, and my experiences with it so far.

251st ACS National Meeting & Exposition

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Due to the theme of this year’s American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition (Computers in Chemistry), Puget Systems will be exhibiting at the 251st event by ACS, March 13th – 17th. We will be displaying much of our HPC & Scientific Computing offerings as well as doing our best to determine how we can better serve our customers in this field. Come meet with us at Booth #1205!

Microsofts Windows 10 Push

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As many of you have noticed, Microsoft has been pushing really hard to get people to upgrade to it’s latest operating system. This is a blog post I wrote to present my take on why they are trying so hard.

Boot Time Comparison

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How quickly a computer boots up doesn’t always correspond to how much processing power the system has, or how fast the system drive is. This blog talks a little about what contributes to both faster and slower boot times, with a video comparison.

Xeon E5v3 All Core Turbo and Amdahl’s Law

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Intel E5 v3 processors will run at “All Core Turbo” under load if properly cooled. This “clock” measurement is a better predictor of theoretical performance than base clock. We present a table of CPU performance at “all-core-turbo” using different parallel scaling factors from Amdhal’s Law. We have a dynamic graph that will show how much performance you lose when your parallel scaling is less than perfect. Just because your dual socket 16-core system shows all 32 cores at 100% doesn’t mean your problem is running 32 times faster!

What is Machine Learning

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Machine Learning is getting a lot of attention these days and with good reason. There are mountains of data to work with and computing resources to handle the problems are easily attainable. Even a single GPU accelerated workstation is capable of serious work.

NVIDIA VR Ready

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GeForce GTX graphics cards provide a powerful next-generation platform for the ultimate immersive virtual reality experience. Rigs and cards marked with “GeForce GTX VR Ready” ensure that your VR games will be optimized with a best-in-class GPU.