XENDESKTOP

A wide range of graphics applications—from PowerPoint and videos to intensive 3D CAD and interactive rendering of medical imagery—are now fully interactive with Citrix XenDesktop and NVIDIA GRID. NVIDIA works with over 100 leading workstation application companies to ensure this experience meets their stringent application certification standards. A list of these solutions that are currently certified on GRID can be found here.

With XenDesktop, you can access the GPU in two ways:

• GPU Pass-through with Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 or Citrix XenDesktop 7 VDI delivery - providing a virtual machine access to a dedicated GPU.
• GRID Virtual GPU (vGPU) with XenDesktop 7.1 - providing the most advanced way to share a GPU.

NVIDIA GPU PASS-THROUGH Technology

By directly connecting a dedicated GPU to the hypervisor, you can now allocate the full GPU and graphics memory capability to a single virtual machine. For a list of certified applications, download NVIDIA GRID Remote Workstation Certifications (PDF 274 KB).

Shared Virtual GPU (vGPU) Technology

NVIDIA GRID™ vGPU™ is the most advanced technology for sharing true GPU hardware acceleration between multiple virtual desktops—without compromising the graphics experience. Graphics commands of each virtual machine are passed directly to the GPU, without translation by the hypervisor.

vGPU Profiles

Take advantage of vGPU Manager to assign specific memory to meet the needs of each user. So everyone will always have the resources they need to launch and use their applications. vGPU Manager enables up to eight users to share each physical GPU, assigning the graphics resources of the available GPUs to virtual machines in a balanced approach. Each NVIDIA GRID K1 card has up to four GPUs, allowing 32 users to share a single card.

NVIDIA GRID Graphics Board	Virtual GPU Profile	Application Certifications	Graphics Memory	Max Displays Per User	Max Resolution Per Display	Max Users Per Graphics Board	Use Case
GRID K2	K260Q		2,048 MB	4	2560x1600	4	Designer/Power User
	K240Q		1,024 MB	2	2560x1600	8	Designer/Power User
	K200		256 MB	2	1900x1200	16	Knowledge Worker
GRID K1	K140Q		1,024 MB	2	2560x1600	16	Power User
	K100		256 MB	2	1900x1200	32	Knowledge Worker

The GPU profiles ending in Q undergo the same rigorous application certification process as our NVIDIA® Quadro® workstation-class processors. For a list of certified applications, download NVIDIA GRID Remote Workstation Certifications (PDF 274 KB).

The GRID K100 and K200 GPU profiles are designed for the lighter graphics workloads associated with the applications that knowledge workers and power users use most of their time. These include Windows 7 with Aero enabled, viewing rich web content such as Adobe Flash or HTML 5, or simply getting the full interactive experience of Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word). To understand more about the graphics requirements of your applications, consult your application vendor.