Mark J. Ray
Contributor
Mark J. Ray has been working with AIX for more than 20 years, 18 of which have been spent in performance. His mission is to make the diagnosis and remediation of the most difficult and complex performance issues easy to understand and implement.
AI On Your Laptop: Part 2 | ML on Windows
July 24, 2024
AI expert Mark Ray explains how to set up an ML environment on Windows using Anaconda
ArticlesAI on Your Laptop: Part 1
April 15, 2024
AI expert Mark Ray kicks off a new series in which he’ll explain how to set up an AI on your personal computer
ArticlesA Student’s Journey Into Artificial Intelligence | Part 3: GPUs Change the Game
September 28, 2023
In part 3 of this series, Mark Ray highlights the start of the GPU age and sets the stage for future advancements in AI
ArticlesA Student’s Journey Into Artificial Intelligence | Part 2: Winter Ends
September 21, 2023
In part two of this series, Mark Ray explores the end of the First AI Winter and the technological developments of the ‘80s and ‘90s
ArticlesA Student’s Journey Into Artificial Intelligence | Part 1: The History
May 9, 2023
In part one of this series on artificial intelligence, Mark Ray discusses some of the technologies and concepts that laid the foundation for what would become AI
ArticlesEnabling Applications to Use Large Memory Pages
November 4, 2019
In the second part of this series on large memory pages, AIX expert Mark Ray walks readers through how to enable applications to use them
ArticlesLarge Memory Pages for AIX
October 14, 2019
AIX expert Mark Ray gives a primer on large memory pages
ArticlesScheduler Resource Allocation Domains or What the Heck is SRAD?
July 2, 2019
Technical expert Mark J. Ray explores the Scheduler Resource Allocation Domain and how it relates to performance structures in Power Systems servers running AIX
ArticlesTrapping the Elusive Error with AIX Kernel Tracing
April 1, 2018
Every computer administrator must deal with error conditions. This is because every operating system, database and application experiences its own particular types of annoyances. Learning how to combat these conditions requires a combination of experience and instinct. Error conditions can manifest on a regular, recurring schedule, or at totally random times. They may occur in […]
ArticlesThe Art and Science of AIX Performance: Intuition and Instinct
March 1, 2018
Over the course of this article series, we’ve developed a methodology to attack and resolve performance problems. We’ve laid the foundation of our remediation efforts by developing a coherent and complete history-taking formula. We’ve learned about the importance of keeping current on system and device firmware, along with the importance of keeping careful and up-to-date […]