®
NVIDIA
GRID™
GPU Acceleration for the Cloud
Steve Harpster, Solutions Architect
North/South America
sharpster@nvidia.com
Brad Truman, VP-Sales
Whitehat Virtual Technologies, Austin TX
Brad.Truman@whitehatvirtual.com
512-762-1855
• Focus on Quality of the End-User Experience
• Core Competence in Citrix Technologies
• Average 15 years Citrix Experience
• Dell Preferred Partner (DVS, server, storage, networking)
• Only NVIDIA GRID Partner in Texas
Virtualization 101
Hardware
Virtualization
Software
App
App
App
VDA
GUEST OS
Virtual
Driver
Virtual
Driver
Virtual
Driver
Virtual
Driver
NVIDIA
Driver
Client
VIRTUAL MACHINE
vCPU
vMemory
vStorage
vNetwork
GPU
HYPERVISOR
SERVER
CPU
Memory
Storage
Network
GPU
AEC
Design &
Manufacturing
Healthcare
e.g. Radiology, MRI
Media &
Entertainment
Education
QUADRO
Workstation
GRID
GPU Virtualized
Datacenter
Aerospace
Oil and Gas
Energy Exploration
Government
NVIDIA GRID K2
DESIGNER
NVIDIA GRID K1
POWER USER
KNOWLEDGE
WORKER
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
Equivalent Quadro
with Pass-through
Quadro K600 (entry)
Quadro K5000 (high end)
1
Number of users depends on software solution, workload, and screen resolution
NVIDIA GRID™ Enabled OEM Platforms
Cisco UCS C240 M3
Dell PowerEdge R720
Fujitsu Celsius C620
HP ProLiant WS460c Gen8
IBM iDataPlex dx360 M4
Fujitsu Celsius R930
HP ProLiant SL250s Gen8
IBM Flex System
For more information
on GRID enabled servers visit
www.nvidia.com/buygrid
VDI SOLUTIONS ROADMAP
Graphics Options in Virtualization
DESIGNER
Virtual Workstation
GRID Enabled Roadmap for Citrix XenDesktop
In Tech Preview NOW!
Today
Citrix HDX 3D Pro
XenDesktop 7.0
XenServer 7
Dedicated
GPU
HARDWARE
VIRTUALIZATION
GPU Dedicated per user
Citrix HDX 3D Pro
+
VGX Hypervisor
VDI
POWER USER
XenDesktop 7
XenServer 7
Virtualized GPUs for users
KNOWLEDGE WORKER
GRID vGPU = Hardware Virtualization
Hypervisor
Virtual Machine
GPU
Hypervisor
Virtual
GPU
Manager
Guest OS
Hypervisor
Device
Emulation
Framework
Resource
Manager
Partition GPU memory
& allocate to <= 8 VMs
4GB memory per GPU
Virtual Desktop
Remote
Protocol
NVIDIA GRID USM (Driver)
Graphics
Commands
State
GPU
MMU
Apps
NVIDIA GRID GPU
Per-VM
Dedicated
Per-VM
Per-VM
Dedicate
Channel
Channels
Per-VM
Dedicate Channel
Dedicate Channel
Remote
Display
GRID vGPU Profiles
Card
Physical
GPUs
Virtual GPU
Use Case
Maximum vGPUs
Frame
Buffer
(MB)
Virtual
Display
Heads
Maximum Resolution
per GPU
per Board
GRID K2
2
GRID K260Q
Typical Designer
2048
4
2560x1600
2
4
GRID K2
2
GRID K240Q
Entry-Level
Designer
1024
2
2560x1600
4
8
GRID K2
2
GRID K200
Knowledge Wkr
256
2
1920x1200
8
16
GRID K1
4
GRID K140Q
Basic Designer
1024
2
2560x1600
4
16
GRID K1
4
GRID K100
Knowledge Wkr
256
2
1920x1200
8
32
GRID vGPU Hardware Virtualization
PARTITION GRID K2 GPU FRAMEBUFFER
 1 user XDT VM at 4GB memory (Quadro K5000 memory size)
 2 user XDT VMs at 2GB each
(Quadro 4000 memory size)
 4 user XDT VMs at 1GB each
(Quadro 2000 memory size)
 8 user XDT VMs at 256MB each (Low-Resolution VDI)
NVIDIA GRID K2
4GB memory per GPU
4GB memory per GPU
DESIGNER
Virtual Workstation
GRID Enabled for Citrix XenApp 6.5
App Virtualization
(Sessions)
Citrix HDX 3D
XenApp 6.5 add-on
VDI
POWER USER
Citrix
XenApp 5
Windows Server
CPU based
software
rasterization
KNOWLEDGE WORKER
Citrix HDX 3D
XenApp 6.5
Windows Server
GPU sharing for
DirectX 9
Windows Server
GPU sharing for
OpenGL 4.2 & DirectX 11
XenApp in a VM
Software
Windows Server OS
Windows Server OS
App
App
App
App
App
App
App
App
App
App
XenApp
Session
XenApp
Session
XenApp
Session
XenApp
Session
XenApp
Session
XenApp
Session
XenApp
Session
XenApp
Session
XenApp
Session
XenApp
Session
Virtual
Driver
Virtual
Driver
Virtual
Driver
Virtual
Driver
NVIDIA
Driver
Virtual
Driver
Virtual
Driver
Virtual
Driver
Virtual
Driver
NVIDIA
Driver
Hardware
Virtualization
VIRTUAL MACHINE 1
vCPU
vMemory vStorage
vNetwork
VIRTUAL MACHINE 2
GPU #1
vCPU
vMemory vStorage
HYPERVISOR
CPU
Memory
Storage
Network
Server
GRID K2
vNetwork
GPU #2
DESIGNER
Virtual Workstation
GRID Enabled Solutions Roadmap for VMware
VMware vDGA
View 5.3
ESX 5.1/5.5
VDI
POWER USER
VMware vSGA
View 5.3
ESX 5.1/5.5
KNOWLEDGE WORKER
Dedicated
GPU
Citrix HDX 3D Pro
+
VMware Hypervisor
XenDesktop 7
ESX 5.1/5/5
Software
Virtualization
API-Intercept
Citrix HDX 3D Pro
+
VMware Hypervisor
XenDesktop 7
ESX 5.1/5.5
GRID Enabled Solutions Roadmap for Microsoft
Virtual Workstation
DESIGNER
Available Now
VDI
POWER USER
Microsoft RemoteFX
Server 2008 R2
DirectX 9
KNOWLEDGE WORKER
Software
Virtualization
Microsoft RemoteFX
Server 2012
DirectX 9, 10, 11
Linux Application Desktops
 Red Hat KVM with GPU Pass-Through
announced at SuperComputing’13 in November
Beta in Fedora core 20
Production RHEL 7
• RHEL
• Ubuntu
• CentOS …
Software
Linux in a VM
Linux OS
Linux OS
Remote VDA Session
Remote VDA Session
App
App
App
App
App
App
App
App
App
NVIDIA
Driver
NVIDIA
Driver
Hardware
Virtualization
VIRTUAL MACHINE 1
vCPU
vMemory vStorage
vNetwork
App
VIRTUAL MACHINE 2
GPU #1
vCPU
vMemory vStorage
vNetwork
• HP RGS
• NICE DCV
GPU #2
HYPERVISOR
CPU
Memory
Storage
Network
Server
GRID K2
• Red Hat
KVM
• XenServer
• VMware
ESXi
Status June 2013
DESIGNER
(CATIA, CS6, Inventor)
POWER USER
(PLM, Med. Image,
Showcase)
KNOWLEDGE
WORKER
(MS Office, Photoshop)
TASK WORKER
(Call Center Apps)
HDX 3D Pro
XenDesktop
XenServer
HDX 3D
XDT AE/XenApp
XenServer
vDGA
View
vSphere
vSGA
View
vSphere
OGL 4.3
DX 9, 10, 11
NVIDIA CUDA
OGL 4.3
DX 9, 10, 11
NVIDIA CUDA
OGL 2.1; DX 9
RemoteFX
Server 2012
Hyper-V
OGL 1.1, DX 9, 10, 11
Big graphics ISVs
ARCHITECTURE,
ENGINEERING,
CONSTRUCTION
(AEC)
MFG & PRODUCT
DESIGN
CIVIL ENGINEERING
ENERGY &
NATURAL
RESOURCES
Revit, AutoCAD
CATIA, SolidWorks
Micro Station
ArcGIS Explorer
Inventor, AutoCAD
SmartPlant
SolidEdge, Teamcenter
Creo, Pro/E
GRID Reference Architecture
User
NVIDIA
GRID
K2
Hypervisor
Virtual Desktop Agent
XenServer 7
XenDesktop 7
or
or
ESXi 5.1/5.3 with vDGA
Designer
XenServer 7
K1
or
or
ESXi 5.1/5.5 with vDGA
Power User
XenServer 7
or
or
K1
Knowledge
Worker
ESXi 5.1/5.5 with vSGA
(with HDX 3D Pro)
View or
or
5.3
XenDesktop71
(with HDX 3D Pro)
XenDesktop 7
(with HDX 3D Pro)
View or
or
5.3
XenDesktop 7
(with HDX 3D Pro)
4 Users
2 GRID K2 boards
Dual socket server
64 GB system memory
8 Users
2 GRID K1 boards
Dual socket server
96 GB system memory
XenDesktop 7
(with HDX 3D Pro)
View 5.X
or
or
Windows
Server 2012
With Hyper-V
Recommended
Configuration
Remote FX
8-32+ Users
2 GRID K1 boards
Dual socket server
Minimum 128 GB system memory