NVIDIA GRID Visual Computing Appliance

Cloud Computing

 

GRAPHICS INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS ON-DEMAND
The NVIDIA GRID™ Visual Computing Appliance (VCA) is a powerful GPU-based system which runs complex applications such as those from Adobe®, Autodesk and Dassault Systèmes, and sends their graphics output over the network to be displayed on a client computer. This remote GPU acceleration gives users the same rich graphics experience they would get from an expensive, dedicated PC under their desk.

GRID VCA provides enormous flexibility to small and medium-size businesses with limited IT infrastructure. Employees can, through the simple click of an icon, create a virtual machine called a workspace. These workspaces – which are, effectively, dedicated, high performance GPU-based systems – can be added, deleted, or reallocated as needed.

Key Benefits:

• A turnkey platform that simplifies installation and management.
• As a stateless device, security is enhanced because valuable data sets are stored on NAS, not locally.
• A fully integrated system that maximizes concurrent user density for demanding design software.
• High-end NVIDIA GPU performance on any Windows, Linux or Mac client on your network.
• Highest quality-of-service for each user.
• Certification and support by professional application partners, including Adobe, Autodesk, and Dassault Systems.

NVIDIA GRID VCA AUTHORISED VALUE-ADDED RESELLERS (VARS)
Authorized VARs are certified by NVIDIA to deliver comprehensive support for the GRID appliance. GRID VCA resellers are capable of delivering a wide range of additional services including installation, setup, maintenance, training, and more.

EXPERT REVIEWS

"GRID VCA will provide tremendous functionality and performance for our small business customers. It delivers easy, high performance GPU access to our applications for the highest quality design and visualization experience." - Carl Bass, president and CEO, Autodesk

"The combination of Adobe Creative Cloud and NVIDIA GRID enables ultimate flexibility for businesses and maximum performance for users. It's all about creative freedom – and together Adobe and NVIDIA deliver exactly that." - Shantanu Narayen, president and CEO, Adobe Systems

"NVIDIA GRID VCA delivers an amazing design experience with SolidWorks from any PC or Mac. With centralized access to fast GPUs, designers can deliver their highest quality work." - Bertrand Sicot, CEO, Solidworks

"We've had enormous success using remote GPU acceleration for both Adobe Creative Suite and Autodesk 3ds Max. Thanks to GRID VCA, we don't spend weeks configuring workstations and transcoding files and projects. Instead, we have more time to deliver a higher quality product for our customers. And we're able to take on new projects with tighter deadlines." - James Fox, CEO, Dawnrunner

 

NVIDIA GRID

GRAPHICS ACCELERATED
VIRTUAL DESKTOPS AND APPLICATIONS

NVIDIA GRID™ technology for large corporations offers the ability to offload graphics processing from the CPU to the GPU in virtualised environments, allowing the data center manager to deliver true PC graphics-rich experiences to more users for the first time.

Benefits of NVIDIA GRID for IT:

• Leverage industry-leading VDI solutions, including Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware
• Add your most graphics-intensive users to your virtual solution
• Improve the productivity of all users

Benefits of NVIDIA GRID for users:

• Highly responsive windows and rich multimedia experiences
• Access to all critical applications, including the most 3D-intensive
• Access from anywhere, on any device

A True PC Desktop Experience For Users, Virtualised For IT Professionals

 

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WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING

"Using a GPU for hardware-accelerated graphics allows customers to provide a more rich and interactive graphical experience across an even broader set of use cases. All the operational benefits such as vMotion, HA, DRS, etc. are also supported, allowing customers to easily expand or enhance their existing virtual desktop infrastructures. We believe this will enable customers to take their virtual desktop deployments to a different level as they look to further expand the potential of their end users."
"NVIDIA virtualised GPU technology aligns with Cisco’s vision of cloud and delivery of desktop and rich-media applications. GPU virtualisation is the one major technology challenge that has been holding back deeper adoption of VDI in the enterprise. We believe NVIDIA’s breakthrough will deliver the unique user experience and ease of management customers have been demanding."

GRID VGX SOFTWARE

The GRID VGX Software library is a suite of technologies that enables GPU based virtualised solutions including graphics enablement in hypervisors, and accelerated remote streams to end-users. These technologies improve the performance of virtualised desktops and applications in an economical way.

GRID VGX ENABLED HYPERVISORS
A key technology of GRID enabled solutions is GPU virtualisation. A GRID VGX enabled hypervisor allows access to the GRID K1 and K2 in virtualised environments, while managing the GPU resources so that multiple users can share common hardware, improving user density.

GRID VGX ENABLED VIRTUAL DESKTOPS
A virtual desktop sitting in a remote data-center requires the fastest possible remoting solution to deliver end user experiences comparable to dedicated PCs. The GRID VGX software enables virtual desktop solutions to capture and encode remote streams directly in the GRID GPU hardware, delivering a local desktop feel with dramatically reduced latency.

NVIDIA VGX boards

NVIDIA’s Kepler™ architecture-based GRID boards are specifically designed to enable rich graphics in virtualised environments.

GPU Virtualisation¹
GRID boards feature NVIDIA Kepler-based GPUs that, for the first time, allow hardware virtualisation of the GPU. This means multiple users can share a single GPU, improving user density while providing true PC performance and compatibility.

Low-Latency Remote Display
NVIDIA’s patented low-latency remote display technology greatly improves the user experience by reducing the lag that users feel when interacting with their virtual machine. With this technology, the virtual desktop screen is pushed directly to the remoting protocol.

H.264 Encoding²
The Kepler GPU includes a high-performance H.264 encoding engine capable of encoding simultaneous streams with superior quality. This provides a giant leap forward in cloud server efficiency by offloading the CPU from encoding functions and allowing the encode function to scale with the number of GPUs in a server.

Maximum User Density
GRID boards have an optimised multi-GPU design that helps to maximise user density. The GRID K1 board features 4 GPUs and 16 GB of graphics memory, allowing it to support up to 100 users on a single board.

Power Efficiency
GRID boards are designed to provide data center-class power efficiency, including the revolutionary new streaming multiprocessor, called "SMX". The result is an innovative, proven solution that delivers revolutionary performance per-watt for the enterprise data centre.

24/7 Reliability
GRID boards are designed, built, and tested by NVIDIA for 24/7 operation. Working closely with leading server vendors such as Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, and SuperMicro ensures GRID cards perform optimally and reliably for the life of the system.Widest Range of Virtualisation Solutions

1 - Only available for Citrix Xenserver
2 - Consult your Hypervisor provider to see if this is supported

NVIDIA GRID SOFTWARE PARTNERS
You can now enable all the benefits of desktop virtualization without compromise.
Virtual Desktops Solutions
Provide the maximum user density while delivering a graphics-rich experience. Offloading graphics processing from the CPU to the GPU improves the user experience and enables low-latency, high-quality interaction with all office productivity and multimedia applications. Plus, the NVIDIA VGX Hypervisor extends the rich user experience to more users via hardware virtualization. 

VIRTUALISED APPLICATION SOLUTIONS
NVIDIA GRID accelerates on-demand enterprise applications via Citrix XenApp. Users get the same level of experience they are used to from their locally installed applications.

VIRTUAL REMOTE WORKSTATION SOLUTIONS
Offer the industry-leading NVIDIA® Quadro® experience for designers, artists, and scientists who rely on applications requiring interactive 3D graphics and full compatibility. All Quadro professional drivers and APIs (DirectX, OpenGL, NVIDIA CUDA®) are enabled to allow full workstation application certification.

THE POWER OF CLOUD GAMING

Cloud-based streaming technology has transformed the movie and music industries by delivering unlimited content to consumer devices, including smartphones, tablets, PCs, and TVs. Millions of users now experience the convenience of streaming video and music services like Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, and Pandora.
It’s only natural that gaming—the fastest growing media segment and a $68 billion industry—would follow this trend. NVIDIA is building on a unique legacy in gaming graphics and graphic performance to lead the way in defining the cloud-gaming experience.

GaaS: FREEDOM FROM THE CONSOLE

NVIDIA GRID is the foundation for the ideal on-demand gaming as a service (GaaS), providing tremendous advantages over traditional console gaming systems.

• Any-device gaming: High-quality, low-latency, multi device gaming on any PC, Mac, tablet, smart phone, or TV.
• Click-to-play simplicity: Anytime-access to a library of gaming titles and saved games in the cloud. Play or continue games from any device, anywhere.
• Less hassle: No new hardware. No complicated setup. No game discs. No digital downloads. No game installations. No game patches.

GRID BENEFITS

BUILDING CLOUD GAMING SERVERS

NVIDIA is the leader in gaming graphics and performance, delivering the industry’s most trusted technology for the smoothest, most realistic gaming experience. For many years, NVIDIA has also worked with leading supercomputer centers to build the fastest computers in the world, including the world record-holding Titan supercomputer.

NVIDIA GRID leverages some of this same technology to render and stream games from the cloud, with thousands of engineers dedicated to creating the ultimate system for gaming-as-a-service (GaaS) operators. Think of it as a gaming supercomputer in the cloud, built by NVIDIA.

 

NVIDIA GRID Cloud Server built by NVIDIA

BETTER CLOUD GAMING TECHNOLOGY

Count on industry-leading technology to provide an ultra high-performance, scalable, and cost-effective cloud gaming system.

• More concurrent users: Enable up to 24 HD-quality game streams from a single server using NVIDIA’s new GPU virtualization technology.
• Power efficiency: With the ability to serve up to 24 concurrent users, operators can expect a dramatic reduction in the cost and amount of power consumed per game stream.
  
• NVIDIA VGX HyperVisor: The VGX Hypervisor manages GPU resources to allow multiple users to share GPU hardware while improving user density and creating a true PC gaming experience in the cloud.
• Lower latency: NVIDIA has focused on reducing game server latency, achieving an amazing 30 ms reduction with the NVIDIA GRID platform. The end result is a cloud gaming experience that feels like playing on a local console.

BETTER GAME CONTENT

NVIDIA’s dedication to game developers is unmatched in the industry and provides the foundation for bringing amazing PC gaming to the cloud.

• More games: NVIDIA’s dedicated developer team has worked side by side for over a decade with hundreds of developers to ensure that the best titles are ready for NVIDIA GRID.
• More technology: NVIDIA technologies give game developers the tools needed to develop the cutting-edge effects in the hottest AAA titles.
• More performance: By lending engineering and hardware support to game developers, NVIDIA assures that games perform best on NVIDIA hardware.

GRID CLOUD GAMING PARTNERS

These companies work with NVIDIA to provide optimized systems, content, and client devices that are compatible with NVIDIA GRID cloud gaming servers. To find out how your company can join the NVIDIA GRID Cloud Gaming Partner Program, with access to leading-edge cloud-rendering technology and technical support

NVIDIA GRID SYSTEM

An NVIDIA GRID system consists of NVIDIA GPUs, servers, and software—designed, optimized, and supported by NVIDIA.
REVOLUTIONARY GRID ARCHITECTURE

The GRID architecture gives you everything you need to develop the ideal cloud gaming as a service (GaaS) server. Instantly create your own highly scalable and reliable cloud gaming network using NVIDIA’s advanced software virtualization environment, and supercomputer architecture.

• 20 GRID servers per rack
• 240 GPUs per rack
• 720 concurrent gamers per rack
• 7,200 subscribers per rack

GRID SDK DEVELOPMENT KIT

The GRID development kit is available now and features GRID game servers, GRID client software, cloud games, and one year of technical support. Contact us for pricing and additional information.