[Originally posted on 06/07/17]
AMD is excited to announce that Citrix’s new hypervisor, XenServer 7.2, supports Radeon™ Pro MxGPU (multiuser GPU) in a technology preview. This means that enterprises can preview our AMD FirePro™ S7150x2 GPUs in virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI). To show it off, AMD was at Citrix Synergy 2017 in Orlando, Florida. In our booth was the first public demonstration of XenServer 7.2 running on AMD GPUs. Not only did we show the power and performance of our GPU technology, but did it from 1092 miles away. You see, the demonstration was delivered from a datacenter outside of New York City by AMD technology partner IMSCAD.
The demo was awesome! The complete capabilities of Autodesk apps, Revit, Inventor and AutoCAD were shown off with our AMD FirePro S7150x2 card in an HPE ProLiant DL380 server from IMSCAD’s New York datacenter. Running on Citrix XenServer 7.2, our MxGPU delivered full workstation class performance while being shared four users per GPU. At the other end of the wire, over 1000 miles of it, was an HPE t620 Thin Client powered by AMD Quad-Core APU. So a complete end-to-end AMD solution in full glory!
Our second demo was also extensively remote. Why lug heavy and loud servers to a trade show, when you can show off the AMD’s great technologies from a datacenter. In this demo we ran VMware ESXI 6.5 on a Dell PowerEdge R730 server installed with an AMD FirePro S7150x2. Splitting the GPU by 8 users, we delivered a workstation-class experience for Solidworks 2017. Over 440 miles it ran, to the booth at Synergy to an IGEL thin client also powered by an AMD Quad-core APU. So here’s the net/net: AMD end-to-end, hardware virtualized graphics running XenServer 7.2, workstation performance from the datacenter, delivered elegantly to AMD-powered thin clients. What’s not to love?
Interested?
Any customer who is eligible to upgrade to XenServer 7.2 can start their testing with any host that supports the AMD FirePro™ S7100-series GPUs. To enable XenServer, click here to check out the download and associated release notes. You will also find details via this link on how to submit bugs.
To use Citrix XenServer with AMD MxGPU virtualized graphics technology you will need to download the XenServer GIM Driver and the Radeon™ Pro Software Beta here. You will also find the Citrix Deployment Guide on this page. Be sure to give us your feedback!
Check out IMSCAD at http://www.imscadglobal.com/article-poc.php and EpiGrid at http://epigrid.com/
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