Startup marketing, billing, pricing, AI monetization by Arnon Shimoni

  • How to check which CUDA version is installed on Linux

    How to check which CUDA version is installed on Linux

    There are several ways and steps you could check which CUDA version is installed on your Linux box. Check if CUDA is installed and it’s location  with NVCC Run which nvcc to find if nvcc is installed properly.You should see something like /usr/bin/nvcc. If that appears, your NVCC is installed in the standard directory. ~ $…

  • When would SQream DB be right for me?

    I’ve been a part of SQream DB for over three years, now entering the fourth year.I started out in the core of the product – the SQL parser and compiler written in Haskell. My experience with the product started out in pure amazement at what it can do (I came from mySQL), and has evolved…

  • SQream DB string cheat-sheet

    There is some lack of handy documentation for SQream DB – a fast, GPU based analytics SQL database. I decided to make a few cheat sheets to help out my fellow SQream DB DBAs. Strings Download as PDF – SQream DB Cheat sheet – Strings (164KB)

  • Nvidia GTX 1080 vs Nvidia Tesla K40 – Installing a GTX1080 in a Dell R720

    At SQream Technologies, we use Nvidia graphics cards in order to perform a lot of the heavy database operations. With SQream DB, we usually recommend using a Tesla K40 or K80 card. While a Tesla K40 is designed to operate inside a server enclosure (it has no onboard fan), standard Nvidia cards like the GTX…

  • X crashes after installing Nvidia driver on CentOS or RHEL

    Recently I’ve been having trouble with the Nvidia driver on CentOS 6. Opening any kind of app that uses the GPU like Google Chrome, Firefox or even Nvidia’s own nvidia-settings causes X to crash and restart. Luckily, I’ve found the solution, and it has to do with libglx.so. Navigate to < pre>/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/ < pre> and…

  • Haskell programmers

    Dropping so many $ while earning so few $

  • Where are the GPU based SQL databases?

    The following is a blog post I wrote for the SQream Technologies blog.

  • Backing up and restoring a Jetson TK1 – or how our first Jetson TK1 just died….

    Unfortunately, our first Jetson TK1 board just died. Overnight, the board shut down at some point and in the morning it wouldn’t boot up. No SSH access, no ping and no output over HDMI. While a lot of the data was saved on an external hard-drive, some data was saved on the on-board eMMC, due to…

  • How do you write good error messages?

    How do you write good error messages?

    Developing software in a start up has exposed me to some pretty bad error messages. Back when the company had little to no customers, this wasn’t a big deal. However, our recent influx of new customers requires a little more attention in curating proper error messages. I gathered all of our developers and we did…

  • Malicious traffic detection using traffic fingerprints and machine learning

    Malicious traffic detection using traffic fingerprints and machine learning

    Over the past year, we’ve worked on a machine learning project at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. The project attempted to find out if we can identify malicious underlying traffic (viruses, botnets, command and control channels) hiding interspersed in ‘normal’ network traffic, without using advanced heuristics or deep packet inspection – but by using…