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Concept to Production: An Architectural Design Firm’s Jump to Virtualization Andrew Schilling and Jimmy Rotella

Andrew Schilling Chief Infrastructure Officer CannonDesign aschilling@cannondesign.com

Jimmy Rotella Digital Practice Director CannonDesign jrotella@cannondesign.com @jrotella

What We Do CannonDesign is an integrated global design firm that unites a dynamic team of architects, engineers, strategists, futurists, researchers, and industry specialists driven by a singular goal — to help solve our client's’ and society’s greatest challenges.

Original Virtual Desktop Designs Version 1 - Standard VDI Version 2 - GPU VDI Version 3 - CHUM VDI (2008) (2013) (2014) ● 2 vCPU @ ● 2 vCPU @ ● 2 vCPU @ ● 140GB hard drive ● 150GB hard drive space ● 180GB hard drive space space ● 12GB RAM ● 24GB RAM ● 8GB RAM ● vSGA hardware graphics ● vDGA passthrough GPU ● vSGA software GPU acceleration graphics acceleration graphics accelerations

our JOURNEY through virtualization begins here . S7174: An Architectural Design Firm’s Journey Through Virtual GPU Technology for Global Collaboration

Partnerships make life on the cutting edge much more manageable.

Application Deployment Guide ● Essentials of getting up and running with VMware and Nvidia GRID ● Basic installation to sizing your environment for complex graphics applications ● Step by step instructions http://www.nvidia.com/content/grid/pdf/g rid-vgpu-deployment-guide.pdf

benchmarks RFO Benchmark Cinebench Holomark PCmark Taylor Swift Test

Virtual Desktop Profiles Knowledge Workers Designers Renderers ● 2 vCPU @ 2.6 GHz ● 8 vCPU @ 2.6 GHz ● 12 vCPU @ 2.6GHz ● 256GB hard drive ● 512GB hard drive ● 512GB hard drive ● 8GB RAM ● 48GB RAM ● 48GB RAM ● 512mb vGPU ● 1GB vGPU ● 4GB vGPU ● 16 users per blade ● 6 users per blade ● 2 users per blade

Storage SSD > spindle

Load Balancing

Cooling Hot/Cold Aisles Cooling Chimneys

Network Infrastructure

host patching driver patching

zero client vs thin client

designed for designers

physical vs virtual

peripherals can be a challenge

Where the heck are my CUDA Cores?

Render Farm Reused “Quad Workstations” More CPU (920 Cores) CUDA support for IRAY (92GB of GPU Memory)

tweaks memory and cpu reservation roaming profiles golden image

migration plans

4k Display future plans Iray Support VMware Horizon 7 version 7.1 (Blast)

jrotella@cannondesign.com Questions? aschilling@cannondesign.com