Get this slide deck from the SYN239 session at Citrix Synergy 2015 to learn about professional graphics delivery with HDX 3D Pro.

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Citrix HDX includes a broad set of technologies that reside across the entire end-to-end delivery system.
HDX in the datacenter leverages the processing power and scalability of servers to deliver advanced
graphical and multimedia performance, regardless of the capabilities of the endpoint device. HDX on the
network incorporates advanced optimization and acceleration capabilities such as the Citrix ICA® virtual
delivery protocol and other third-party technologies to deliver a great user experience over any network,
including for remote desktop access over high-latency, low-bandwidth environments. HDX at the device
leverages the computing capacity of endpoint devices to enhance user experience in the most efficient
way possible.
There are eight categories of HDX technologies that work together in concert to provide the best
experience for all user scenarios. Each of these eight categories includes a broad range of new and
existing technologies that extend throughout the Citrix Delivery Center™ product family.
• HDX Broadcast ensures reliable, high-performance connectivity over any network.
• HDX Plug-n-Play lets you use peripherals and other local resources with your virtual desktop just as if
everything were running locally.
• HDX MediaStream provides a set of technologies for playing videos and audio recordings.
• HDX RealTime supports softphones, voice chat and unified communications including webcams.
• HDX Mobile optimizes the delivery of Windows apps and desktops to mobile form factor devices, with
features like the pop-keyboard, inertia scrolling and finger-friendly selection lists.
• HDX RichGraphics handles 2D and 3D graphics, including GPU acceleration.
• HDX WAN Optimization with CloudBridge reduces bandwidth requirements to support satellite offices
while optimizing the user experience.
• And the technology that intelligently and dynamically puts it all together is HDX Adaptive Orchestration.
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• In the past, virtualizing design/engineer workstations and line of business, graphics-intensive
applications such as CAD/CAM was never seriously considered due to existing technology
limitations. Today, by leveraging various recent software virtualization advancements, many
organizations have begun to successfully virtualize their high-end graphics apps.
• In an increasingly global economy, companies are looking to improve time-to-market by
securely collaborating and managing design lifecycles with offshore, mobile and remote
employees while maintaining secure control over intellectual property. Organizations are
seeing desktop virtualization as an enabling technology to accomplish these dual goals.
Leveraging XenDesktop with HDX 3D pro for application and workstation virtualization, with its
advancements in deep compression to improve utilization of network bandwidth, and the latest
XenServer integrations of GPU acceleration technology for virtualized environments from
NVIDIA, Citrix is demonstrating a leadership position in addressing this underserved high-end
3D graphics applications segment.
Key Points: There are many business drivers impacting the trend to virtualize high-end graphics
applications such as CAD/CAM including:
• The need to leverage a global talent base
• The need to secure product design IP
• The need to extend mobile device access to users viewing, presenting design models
• The need to improve time to market and be more cost efficient
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• HDX 3D Pro is a feature of XenDesktop Enterprise and Platinum editions that enables you to
deliver workstations and applications that perform best with a graphics processing unit (GPU)
for hardware acceleration, including 3D professional graphics applications based on OpenGL
and DirectX.
• With HDX 3D Pro, you can use XenDesktop to deliver complex interactive graphics over wide
area network (WAN) connections with bandwidths as low as 1.5Mbps using various deep
compression CPU and GPU techniques.
• On local area network (LAN) connections, HDX 3D Pro enables you to replace complex and
expensive workstations with much simpler user devices, moving the graphics processing into
the data center for centralized management.
• You can use HDX 3D Pro to virtualize, for example, tools for computer-aided design,
manufacturing, and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE), geographical information system (GIS)
software, and picture archiving and communication system (PACS) workstations for medical
imaging.
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• HDX 3D Pro is a feature of XenDesktop Enterprise and Platinum editions that enables you to
deliver workstations and applications that perform best with a graphics processing unit (GPU)
for hardware acceleration, including 3D professional graphics applications based on OpenGL
and DirectX.
• With HDX 3D Pro, you can use XenDesktop to deliver complex interactive graphics over wide
area network (WAN) connections with bandwidths as low as 1.5Mbps using various deep
compression CPU and GPU techniques.
• On local area network (LAN) connections, HDX 3D Pro enables you to replace complex and
expensive workstations with much simpler user devices, moving the graphics processing into
the data center for centralized management.
• You can use HDX 3D Pro to virtualize, for example, tools for computer-aided design,
manufacturing, and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE), geographical information system (GIS)
software, and picture archiving and communication system (PACS) workstations for medical
imaging.

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• The XenServer 6.2 HCL includes support for 12 GPUs in a single server. XenServer
Creedence will further increase GPU density.
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• Stronger than we thought
• Configuration
• Excellent price point
• AutoCAD
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Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) is one of the world’s pre-eminent architecture firms, with 6
global office hubs (New York, London, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul and Abu Dhabi) and mixed-
use projects in more than 35 countries.
Photo: Infinity Tower São Paulo, Brazil (see http://www.kpf.com/projects.map.asp for similar
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Remember our pyramid slide, i.e. how to segment the customer’s user population? IMSCAD
followed this approach with KPF.
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• Mixed hypervisors
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CUSTOMER PROFILE
• Since its establishment in 1973, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. (DSME)
has been building ships, offshore plants, drill ships, Floating Production Storage & Offloading
(FPSO) units, submarines, and destroyers. DSME is aiming to become the best shipbuilding
and marine engineering company in both Korea and around the world. The company is
therefore upgrading to the latest shipbuilding technology and developing its skills in advanced
offshore platform building and large-scale plant project management, all with the goal of
delivering top-quality civilian and military products.
CHALLENGE
• The existing design collaboration server relied on NVIDIA Quadro 6000 GPUs. This solution
efficiently handled the 2D design models used by DSME; however, part of the overall
modernization and quality effort included migrating to 3D design models using Aveva Marine.
The switch from 2D to 3D overloaded the design collaboration server, causing noticeable
performance delays and other system issues when users tried to work with the 3D data.
• After researching their options, DSME decided to test a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
using NVIDIA GRID K2. A rigorous testing program took place from June to December of 2013.
This testing program included verifying compatibility with Aveva Marine, performance tests with
multiple concurrent users, graphics resolution, and frame rate. The goal of this extensive
testing was to determine the best way to implement the new design collaboration system.
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SOLUTION
• In spring of 2014, following extensive testing and vetting, the Textron Leadership Council approved a VDI pilot
deployment using NVIDIA GRID technology with Citrix virtualization and vGPU support at Bell Helicopter. This
project received approval for a phased deployment of up to 375 seats. As of January 27, 2015, 88 of those seats
are on GRID enhanced VDI, with an additional 34 coming online by the end of the month.
• The solution is built on IBM/Lenovo NeXtScale nx360 M4 blade servers equipped with both NVIDIA GRID K2
cards for graphics acceleration and local SSDs for faster write caching. Citrix XenServer 6.5 and XenDesktop 7.6
deliver pooled virtual desktops that are defined by user job roles and needed applications in a “like for like” model.
For example, if a user’s workstation had 64GB of RAM and a Quadro 5000 GPU, that user’s desktop pool will
allocate 64GB of RAM and a K260Q vGPU profile. All data and compute resides in a datacenter located in Fort
Worth, Texas, approximately 350 miles away.
IMPACT
• With the Citrix/NVIDIA GRID VDI deployment, users are seeing model load times 30-50 percent faster than
before, and experiencing overall performance that is equal to or better than their previous workstations. Users can
now access their applications and data with full performance and display fidelity on laptop computers and mobile
devices from any location within the same facility—and even from remote facilities. Some Bell Helicopter facilities
reported that users were able to connect from home and keep working during recent snowstorms that made
commuting to work difficult or even impossible. This unprecedented level of power and flexibility is greatly
improving employee productivity, mobility, and morale. It is also providing a solid foundation for future
improvements to Bell Helicopter’s disaster recovery capabilities.
• From a security standpoint, centralizing data in the datacenter means that end users receive only pixels while the
data itself never leaves the datacenter. Going forward, external parties who need access to data will use their own
devices accessing the Citrix/NVIDIA VDI environment without actually receiving any of the sensitive 3D model
data.
• Employee reception has been overwhelmingly positive. Those who participated in the initial pilot do not want to
return to using workstations, and other employees who are not currently part of the VDI deployment are clamoring
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So, to summarize,
• XenDesktop with HDX 3D Pro is the best virtualization platform for remotely
delivering 3D professional graphics applications and full workstations over low
bandwidth WANs achieved by our GPU and CPU deep compression
technologies.
• We are the first to market with direct Nvidia VGX API support to enable to
delivery faster frame rates resulting in much smoother visual performance
• We provide the lowest cost per user per host by supporting GPU passthrough for
up to 4 GPUs on a host today and up to 12 GPUs currently on the XenServer
HCL (as of Q2 2013).
• Our solution enables broadest remote device access – whether it be a Mac
laptop or an iPad or Android tablet or Windows PC or even a thin client.
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So, to summarize,
• XenDesktop with HDX 3D Pro is the best virtualization platform for remotely
delivering 3D professional graphics applications and full workstations over low
bandwidth WANs achieved by our GPU and CPU deep compression
technologies.
• We are the first to market with direct Nvidia VGX API support to enable to
delivery faster frame rates resulting in much smoother visual performance
• We provide the lowest cost per user per host by supporting GPU passthrough for
up to 4 GPUs on a host today and up to 12 GPUs currently on the XenServer
HCL (as of Q2 2013).
• Our solution enables broadest remote device access – whether it be a Mac
laptop or an iPad or Android tablet or Windows PC or even a thin client.

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