As the BYOD (bring your own device) trend continues to strengthen in the large enterprise space, business applications have become more resource demanding due to the tremendous amount of data transactions, NVIDIA certainly isn’t sitting on its laurels to let these challenges overwhelm enterprises as it unveils GRID 2.0 at VMware vForum 2015 in Singapore, the upgraded NVIDIA GRID 2.0 is now more powerful and capable of delivering two times better performance than its predecessor, and enterprises can take advantage of delivering graphics intensive applications over the cloud. The new GRID 2.0 will support major virtualisation platforms from VMware and Citrix.
NVIDIA understands that the workplace is no longer a fixed location and has partnered with VMware to offer GPU accelerated virtualisation to demanding enterprises. GRID 2.0 now offers two times faster virtualisation performance, configurable on Blade server systems and supports Linux applications.
By leveraging on the powerful Maxwell architecture found on its GeForce GTX and Quadro GPUs, the new Tesla M60 GPU only requires 300W of power and has dual 2048 CUDA cores to power up to 16 concurrent users in a single OS environment. NVIDIA GRID 2.0 profiles are now integrated into the latest VMware Horizon 6.2 VDI application and the new platform will allow IT departments to deploy virtual desktops almost instantly with the help of real-time app delivery, should the hosts go down, its smart provisioning feature performs a cold migration over to its new hosts to ensure the most minimal down time.
With GPU accelerated virtual desktops, users are able to take advantage of NVIDIA’s advanced GPU technologies such as Full Scene Anti-Aliasing (FSAA) and Ambient Occlusion to render 3D images over the cloud using VMware Horizon without the need to worry about owning a high-end computer, as NVIDIA has demonstrated to us using a NVIDIA SHIELD TV and a MacBook Air, the results are somehow impressive for rendering items in applications such as Cinema4D and Autodesk 3D.
NVIDIA’s GRID has been successfully deployed on over a hundred of global organizations since launch, NVIDIA and VMware has set up a GRID 2.0 test drive programme for interested customers over here, hardware partners like Dell, HP and Lenovo will also be offering servers to support GRID 2.0 as well. To learn more about how GRID 2.0 will be able to benefit your organisation, head on to NVIDIA’s GRID microsite here.
