To find out Teradici helped us set up a Fujitsu Celsius C620 on our standard office network, which comprises six desktop machines, a printer, and a ZyXEL GS-1100-24E switch. Remoting a workstation is all well and good in theory but how does everything work in practice? It can support workstation virtualisation but it is certainly not its forte. It’s essentially a mainstream CAD workstation that has been crammed into a 1U server chassis.

Its Celsius C620 rack workstation is tuned for CAD over a one-to-one connection using Teradici PCoIP technology. Japanese manufacturer Fujitsu takes a different approach. They can also deliver very good performance on a one-to-one connection, but the high-end specs will most likely be overkill if you simply want to run CAD remotely. With two high-end Intel Xeon E5-2600 series CPUs, two high-end GPUs and hundreds of gigabytes of RAM the Dell Precision Rack 7910 and HP D元80z virtual workstation, for example, are both geared towards workstation virtualisation. The rack workstationįrom a hardware perspective, most rack workstations are designed with flexibility in mind. Everything is done in hardware - a dedicated Teradici chip takes the graphics output from the workstation’s GPU and converts into encrypted IP packets for transmission over the network.Ĭlient-side the data is decrypted and converted back into pixel information to be displayed locally. One-to-one connections typically rely on Teradici PCoIP, a mature remote technology that sends pixels rather than CAD data from rack workstation to end point. It is essential for the 3D CAD software to feel responsive or it will negatively impact the productivity of designers and engineers. A one-to-one connection between the rack workstation in the data centre and a thin client on the desk is not only easier to deploy but is widely regarded to deliver the best user experience. With this in mind there’s plenty to say for keeping things simple. There is no one size fits all solution and tuning the virtualisation stack for bespoke 3D CAD workflows takes a great deal of specialist knowledge. But workstation virtualisation can be incredibly complex. It’s all about supporting the biggest density of 3D CAD users on a rack in the data centre.

Most of the buzz is around workstation virtualisation, where CPU (and increasingly GPU) resources are carved up to form multiple Virtual Machines (VMs).

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