Category Archives: Hardware

Inside NVIDIA Kepler – Live from GTC 2012

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Eliot Eshelman

Compute performance has been exponentially increasing for the entirety of your life – it doesn’t matter what your age is. This week at NVIDIA’s GTC 2012 conference, we’ve seen that GPUs are still leading the charge. The new NVIDIA “Kepler” … Continue reading →

Achieve the Best Performance: Intel Xeon E5-2600 “Sandy Bridge”

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Eliot Eshelman

Intel has once again done an excellent job designing a high-performance processor. The new Xeon E5-2600 “Sandy Bridge EP” processors run as much as 2.2 times faster than the previous-generation Xeon 5600 “Westmere” processors. Combined with new Xeon server/workstation platforms, … Continue reading →

nvidia-smi: Control Your GPUs

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Eliot Eshelman

This post was last updated on 2018-11-05 Most users know how to check the status of their CPUs, see how much system memory is free, or find out how much disk space is free. In contrast, keeping tabs on the … Continue reading →

Monitoring Hard Drive and RAID Health

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Eliot Eshelman

By default, you won’t find out that one of your hard drives has failed until the data is gone. Even if you are using a software or hardware RAID, it will only continue to function if you replace failed drives. … Continue reading →

Managing a Linux Software RAID with MDADM

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Eliot Eshelman

There are several advantages to assembling hard drives into a RAID: performance, redundancy and capacity. Microway workstations and servers are most commonly outfitted with software RAID to prevent a single drive failure from destroying your operating system installation. In most … Continue reading →