In today’s world, engineering teams can be located just about anywhere in the world, and the engineers themselves can work from just about any location, including home offices. This geographic dispersion creates a dilemma for corporations that need to arm engineers with tools that make them more productive while simultaneously protecting valuable intellectual property—and doing it all in an affordable manner.
Those goals are at the heart of hosted workstations that leverage new combinations of technologies from Intel and Citrix*. These solutions, unveiled this week at the Citrix Synergy 2015 show in Orlando, allow engineers to work with demanding 3D graphics applications from virtually anywhere in the world, with all data and applications hosted in a secure data center. Remote users can work from the same data set, with no need for high-volume data transfers, while enjoying the benefits of fast, clear graphics running on a dense, cost-effective infrastructure.
These solutions are in the spotlight at Citrix Synergy. Event participants had the opportunity to see demos of remote workstations capitalizing on the capabilities of the Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 product family and Citrix XenApp*, XenServer*, XenDesktop*, and HDX 3D Pro* software.
Show participants also had a chance to see demos of graphics passthrough with Intel® GVT-d in Citrix XenServer* 6.5, running Autodesk* Inventor*, SOLIDWORKS*, and Autodesk Revit* software. Other highlights included a technology preview of Intel GVT-g with Citrix HDX 3D Pro running Autodesk AutoCAD*, Adobe* Photoshop*, and Google* Earth.
Intel GVT-d and Intel GVT-g are two of the variants of Intel® Graphics Virtualization Technology. Intel GVT-d allows direct assignment of an entire GPU’s capabilities to a single user—it passes all of the native driver capabilities through the hypervisor. Intel GVT-g allows multiple concurrent users to share the resources of a single GPU.
The new remote workstation solutions showcased at Citrix Synergy build on a long, collaborative relationship between engineers at Intel and Citrix. Our teams have worked together for many years to help our mutual customers deliver a seamless mobile and remote workspace experience to a distributed workforce. Users and enterprises both benefit from the secure and cost-effective delivery of desktops, apps, and data from the data center to the latest Intel Architecture-based endpoints.
For a closer look at the Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 product family and hosted workstation infrastructure, visit intel.com/workstation.
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