Citrix Announces HDX 3D
We heard about the release of Citrix HDX with XenDesktop 3. This is a series of enhancement that allows the ICA protocol to be particularly efficient and to ensure a good "end-user experience." With the start of VMworld in San Francisco has grown to wait for a live demo of VMware PC-over-IP, the protocol developed with Teradata for remote presentation. To counter the effect of this demo, Citrix has announced a new technology called HDX 3D.
Though no one has yet seen the implementation of the PC-over-IP and then VMware is not possible to establish how this can be a real alternative to the ICA protocol, Citrix takes his precautions with the announcement of this new enhancement able to remote 3D graphics with a bandwidth consumption of about 1 / 10 compared to its competitors (read: PC-over-IP).
The HDX 3D should be the evolution of what until now has been called Project Apollo, although not completely inherits the architecture. This is a product with specific hardware requirements for the remote OpenGL and DirectX applications of XenDesktop. The HDX is a 3D rendering technology / encoding the host side, this means that you can identify the contents OpenGL and DirectX on the remote host (desktop), and send them to reencode it to the client via the ICA protocol (a new Virtual Channel ). To operate the HDX 3D feature requires a GPU with CUDA: why the HDX3D can not be used on virtual machines, since it requires a GPU physics, but rather lends itself for use in environments BladePC. The architecture CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture acronym) is a technology developed by NVIDIA that allows essentially to use the GPU to turn in calculations by the developers. Through this approach the HDX 3D replaces the old Progressive Display and the client sends a compressed video stream, quite similar to other solutions (such as HP RGS and PC-over-IP, Teradata, in fact). The CUDA architecture is currently already available on most GPU NVIDIA GeForce including families, four, and Tesla.
For more information:
- Look out PC-over-IP! Citrix announces new host-side GPU-based encoding for HDX 3D
- Citrix HDX 3D
- CUDA (Wikipedia)
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