Hewlett-Packard has joined Nvidia’s growing Grid alliance, equipping a Gen8 Proliant blade server with graphics boards that can speed up and lower the cost of virtual desktop deployments….
Hewlett-Packard has joined Nvidia’s growing Grid alliance, equipping a Gen8 Proliant blade server with graphics boards that can speed up and lower the cost of virtual desktop deployments.
Nvidia’s Grid boards consist of multiple graphics processors and work with virtualization software from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware for quick delivery of desktop images and graphics to remote clients in a distributed computing environment. HP is adding Nvidia boards to its Proliant Gen8 WS460c blade server.
The WS460c blade server with Nvidia’s Grid components will be available later this year starting at less than $9000, HP said. IBM, Dell and Cisco Systems are also Grid partners.
Virtual desktops are typically delivered to remote PCs and devices so that they can access centralized data and applications residing on the servers. Virtualization is considered key technology for efficient use of server resources, and graphics processors enable fast delivery of virtual desktops, which helps cut electric bills. For example, graphics boards can deliver multiple Windows OS images to thin clients and do so faster than CPUs.
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