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Fun with an AArch64 NAS

If you’re anything like me, managing the data that is produced by our modern lifestyles is a chore. I’m the designated archival person in the family and as such I’m always looking for better ways to manage the huge volumes of data, from family photos and video to all of my music which I’ve digitized from my huge personal CD library.

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.