How to Change the Root Password on Another Drive Using a Live Distribution Bootable USB
Warning: If you have RAID configured for your drive, it may shove existing RAID ‘multiple devices’ (md) into a different device name. Example: ‘md1, md2, md3’ may move over to ‘md127, md128. md129’; when booting back into the drive, you may need to re-mount the…
6 Ways To Increase Your SSD’s Lifespan
With traditional hard drives becoming the thing of the past, we are seeing more and more solid-state drives (SSDs) as the main storage devices in systems. Due to the sheer performance improvements an SSD provides compared to a hard drive, there is no question that…
Installing and Using DOCKER and NV-DOCKER on CentOS 7
DOCKER-ENGINE is a containerization technology that allows you to create, develop and run applications. In this article we will focus primarily on the basic installation steps for DOCKER and NV-DOCKER, and the ability for DOCKER, working with NV-DOCKER (a wrapper that NVIDIA provides) to…
How to disable hibernation mode and remove ‘hiberfil.sys’ files for Windows 7/8.1/10
One of the more common questions we run into while talking to our customers is: how do you maximize your data storage? A quick tip we like to share is to disable hibernation mode and remove the ‘hiberfil.sys’ from your system(s). We know it sounds weird at…
Vectorization Latency & Bandwidth for AVX-512 for Intel Knights Landing
The Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing support the new 512-bit Advanced Vector Extension instruction set. Intel KNL (Knights Landing) also supports a few extensions. Only the AVX-512F (Foundation) is a base requirement for the AVX-512 ISA. Intel KNL Supported AVX-512 Extensions Extension Description AVX-512F Foundation…