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Sleep Option Disappears Running Windows 10 Pro Using VMware

Just a quick note on a very strange issue when updating a Windows 10 Pro virtual machine on Linux using VMware Workstation from a version 15 VM to version 16. Environment and Setup  Each has the latest s/w release with all patches and updates applied. Linux Fedora 33 kernel 5.10.15–200.fc33.x86_64 VMware Workstation 16 Pro, version 16.1.0, […]

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Amazon AWS Server Types Performance Comparison for a Deep Learning/Convolutional Neural Network Project

Udactity has a Deep Learning course. One of the projects is to set up and train an image classifying convolutional neural network using TensorFlow. The tensors can get rather large (GB size). The computational requirements are such that if you want to play around with things, tear them apart and put them back together again

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NASA Parallel Distributed Processing Project

PDP: A paradigm shift for NASA Space Shuttle Flight Design During my time working on the Space Shuttle I developed at NASA/Johnson Space Center a Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) package to distribute tasks such as Space Shuttle trajectory simulations across the Unix workstation network we had at Rockwell Space Operations. The basic idea is very

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Optimized Space Shuttle 1st Stage Guidance Targets

This project researched the application of Sequential Simplex Optimization and Experimental Design concepts to the problem of optimizing some of the target values used in the Space Shuttle first stage guidance subsystem. Shuttle first stage employs “open-loop” guidance, essentially flying an attitude profile based on current speed. I first found the optimum targeting values and

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