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Part 2: Taming the Beast – Deep Dive into the Proxy-Aware GPU Initialization Action
Part 2: Taming the Beast – Deep Dive into the Proxy-Aware GPU Initialization Action In Part 1 of this series, we laid the network foundation for running secure Dataproc clusters. Now, let’s zoom in on the core component responsible for installing and configuring NVIDIA GPU drivers in this restricted environment: the install_gpu_driver.sh script from the…
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Dataproc GPUs, Secure Boot, & Proxies
Part 1: Building a Secure Network Foundation for Dataproc with GPUs & SWP Welcome to the first post in our series on running GPU-accelerated Dataproc workloads in secure, enterprise-grade environments. Many organizations need to operate within VPCs that have no direct internet egress, instead routing all traffic through a Secure Web Proxy (SWP). Additionally, security…
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Installing a desktop environment on the HP Omen
`dmidecode | grep -A8 ‘^System Information’` tells me that the Manufacturer is HP and Product Name is OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-fb0xxx I’m provisioning a new piece of hardware for my eng consultant and it’s proving more difficult than I expected. I must admit guilt for some of this difficulty. Instead of installing using the…
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Signed NVIDIA drivers on Google Cloud Dataproc 2.2
Hello folks, I’ve been working this year on better integrating NVIDIA hardware with the Google Cloud Dataproc product (Hadoop on Google Cloud) running the default cluster node image. We have an open bug[1] in the initialization-actions repo regarding creation failures upon enabling secure boot. This is because with secure boot, kernel driver code has its…
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False Positive
Since a bit before my birthday this year, I have been uncertain where I left my notary seal. I have been trying to stay positive about the situation, but I must admit that I spent an unhealthy amount of time obsessing about its location and whether it has been used in my absence. The last…
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Debian on PowerPC successful
The NVidia card being unable to drive two monitors is a little annoying, and the lack of support for skype and chrome is a bother, but I think I can build chrome… There’ll probably be no flash, I imagine.
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Gotta’ get ’em all.
And now I have them all. Maybe I can reduce the load on my wan pipe by setting up a mirror for the island.
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Told you I could make it work.
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SELinux on Wheezy
So, Collier Technologies LLC needs to pass annual audits to operate a certification authority recognized by the SoS. To this end, I’m working with the fine group of developers who maintain SELinux. It seems that the configuration of Xorg that I’m using while typing this here blog post does not have a policy set up…
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Getting started with gtk♯
This is a quick tutorial for getting a first gtk-sharp app up and going. Install MonoDevelop $ sudo apt-get install monodevelop libgtk2.0-cil-dev Start MonoDevelop It’ll be in your GNOME application menu under Applications->Programming->MonoDevelop Create a new Gtk# Project Run project You can run this boilerplate by pressing Ctrl-F5 Using the Designer Double-click on the file…