How NVIDIA GRID™ Brings Amazing Graphics to the

Virtualized Experience with Cisco UCS

PREVIEW

Why GRID For VDI

GRID Enabled Solutions

GRID User Experiences

Task Worker

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Circa 2011

Without GPU VDI user experience is very limited

Power User

Designer Task Worker

Knowledge Worker

A TRUE PC EXPERIENCE

Delivered to any device for the hundreds of millions of power users who want to bring their own devices to work.

GRID Powered VDI

VDI VIRTUAL

DESKTOPS

VIRTUAL MACHINE

NVIDIA Driver

NVIDIA GRID Enabled Virtual Desktop Agent

NVIDIA GRID GPU

NVIDIA GRID ENABLED Hypervisor

NVIDIA GRID K2

1 Number of users depends on software solution, workload, and screen resolution

NVIDIA GRID K1

GPU 4 Kepler GPUs 2 High End Kepler GPUs

CUDA cores 768 (192 / GPU) 3072 (1536 / GPU)

Memory Size 16GB DDR3 (4GB / GPU) 8GB GDDR5 (4GB / GPU)

Max Power 130 W 225 W

Form Factor Dual Slot ATX, 10.5” Dual Slot ATX, 10.5”

Display IO None None

Aux power requirement 6-pin connector 8-pin connector

PCIe x16 x16

PCIe Generation Gen3 (Gen2 compatible) Gen3 (Gen2 compatible)

Cooling solution Passive Passive

# users 4 - 1001 2 – 641

Watts per user ~ 1.5 W ~ 3.5 W

OpenGL 4.3 4.3

Microsoft DirectX 11 11

GRID Virtual GPU support Yes Yes

Cisco UCS C240 M3 2 GRID K1 or 2 GRID K2

GPUs in a Virtual Desktop

GPU Pass-Through (dGPU) 1:1 dedicated GPU to user via

NVIDIA Pass-through technology

Virtual GPU (vGPU) Hardware virtualization of the

GPU through the NVIDIA GRID

software

Guest OS

Server

CPU

Dedicated GPU H

ard

ware

Memory Storage Network

Soft

ware

Virtual Driver

Virtual Driver

Virtual Driver

Virtual Driver

Vir

tualizati

on

HYPERVISOR

VIRTUAL MACHINE

vCPU vMemory vStorage vNetwork

App App App App VDA

Client

NVIDIA Driver

GPU

GPU

Accelerated Remoting Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 FP1

NVIDIA Pass-through Citrix XenServer 6.1

GRID K1 GRID K2 Quadro 2000-6000 Quadro K2000-K5000

Standard NVIDIA Driver

Guest OS

VIRTUAL MACHINE

HYPERVISOR

NVIDIA Driver

NVIDIA Driver

Guest OS

Server

CPU

Virtual GPU H

ard

ware

Memory Storage Network

Soft

ware

Virtual Driver

Virtual Driver

Virtual Driver

Virtual Driver

Vir

tualizati

on

VIRTUAL MACHINE

vCPU vMemory vStorage vNetwork

Client

GPU

NVIDIA Driver

vGPU

GRID Software

Graphic Commands

App App App App VDA App App App App VDA

App App App VDA

Client

Client

HYPERVISOR

Guest OS

Server

CPU

Virtual GPU H

ard

ware

Memory Storage Network

Soft

ware

Virtual Driver

Virtual Driver

Virtual Driver

Virtual Driver

Vir

tualizati

on

VIRTUAL MACHINE

vCPU vMemory vStorage vNetwork

App App App App VDA

Client

GPU

NVIDIA Driver

vGPU

GRID Software

GRID K1, K2

Citrix XenServer NVIDIA GRID software

Standard NVIDIA Driver

Accelerated Remoting Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 FP1

DESIGNER (CATIA, CS6, Inventor,

SolidWorks)

POWER USER (PLM, Med Img,

Showcase, Photoshop)

KNOWLEDGE

WORKER (MS Office, HTML5)

Virtual Desktop (Virtualized GPU)

Virtual Remote

Workstation (Dedicated GPU)

Google Earth

Dedicated GPU

Screen Capture of Live VDI Session

RECAP

Why GRID For VDI

GRID Enabled Solutions

GRID User Experiences

NVIDIA GRID™

A True PC Experience for Everyone Anywhere

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