NVIDIA has announced NVIDIA GRID 2.0 with broad industry support, helping it to deliver the most graphics-intensive applications to any connected device.
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Further adding that the new Grid technology can run on rack servers as well as blade servers, Nvidia has revealed that some renowned vendors – including Cisco, Dell, Lenovo, and Hewlett-Packard – are already implementing Grid 2.0 on 125 server models.
NVIDIA indicates that their GRID 2.0 brings extraordinary performance, efficiency and flexibility improvements for virtualized graphics in enterprise workflows, allowing employees to work from practically anywhere without experiencing any delay when downloading files.
Most of these apps are 3D-modeling CAD-based software. Data can also be more securely stored, as it lives in a central server and not individual systems.
NVIDIA Grid 2.0 can handle up to 128 users per server, which is twice than before and it also supports the Linux OS along with the Windows OS. Although both seem to be in testing phase where clients can join the system in a 90-day evaluation period, the potential of such systems, well managed and with good infrastructure support, is huge.
“Blade servers are really about server density in the data centre and this was probably one of the biggest requests we were getting from users, so putting GRID in blade servers means they can take advantage of many new uses”, the firm said. “GRID technology allows HP to provide the highest density virtualised graphics offering on the market today so that our customers easily scale to accommodate the highest possible number of users”.
Nvidia made the announcement during VMware’s annual VMworld conference. “NVIDIA GRID 2.0 with Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop app and desktop delivery now allows more users to take advantage of rich applications on any device”.
Users are encouraged to experience NVIDIA GRID for themselves through the NVIDIA GRID Test Drive.
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Previous Grid-compatible cards were built with Kepler GPUs (PDF), but the hardware behind Grid 2.0 is all Maxwell-based.
