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March 21, 2013

Virtualizing 3D Professional Graphics Apps

Yvonne Dresser, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Citrix Desktops and Apps Thomas Poppelgaard, Solution Architect, Commaxx

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Agenda

•  XenDesktop & XenApp HDX 3D technologies •  Tips and Tricks •  Audience Q & A

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Industries that use 3D professional graphics

Aerospace Automotive Construction Energy

Engineering Services

Hi Tech - Electronics

Industrial Equipment

Medical Equipment

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Enterprise challenges and opportunities

•  Desire to leverage a global talent base and collaborate across the supply chain

•  Corporate requirements to safeguard product design IP

•  Need to extend access to design models on mobile devices

•  Economic demands for cost control and faster time to market

•  Business continuity and disaster-recovery plans

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Classification of 3D professional graphics users

Designers & Engineers Power Users

Create & manipulate large

3D models View & edit 3D

data

Dedicated GPU Shared GPU Shared GPU

Knowledge & Task users

Business graphics apps

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Solutions for GPU-accelerated graphics

XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro XenApp HDX 3D

Citrix Confiden5al -‐ Do Not Distribute

•  GPU accelera5on of DirectX and OpenGL ~1.5 Mbps

• One user per GPU •  H.264-‐based Deep Compression

•  3D SpaceMouse support

TOP PERFORMANCE SOLUTION

•  GPU accelera5on of DirectX & OpenGL ~3 Mbps

•  GPU sharing •  Lower cost MicrosoP licensing

•  Apps must be compa5ble with RDSH (Terminal Services)

MOST COST-‐EFFECTIVE SOLUTION

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Internet LAN DMZ

StoreFront Services

NetScaler Gateway

Primary

Secondary

XenApp (Multi Users : 1 GPU) Technical Overview

Receiver HDX 3D Graphics

Pod

XenServer with GPU cards

Pod

XenServer with GPU cards

XenDesktop (1 User : 1 GPU)

Delivery Controller

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•  Heavy 3D graphics app usage •  Exceptional graphics performance

and response optimizations

•  Multiple users per server

•  Very usable experience ~1.5 Mbps

•  OpenGL and DirectX

8

with HDX 3D Pro

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Addi5onal Features HDX 3D Pro

•  Pixel-‐perfect lossless compression • Can combine with lossy compression during mo5on, for responsive remote access

• Dual monitor support • Receiver for Windows and Linux

•  Connexion SpaceMouse

•  Seamless app delivery

TOC

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Compression Options

•  CPU-based, deep compression codec •  min. 1.5 Mbps bandwidth

•  GPU-based implementation, •  min. 2 Mbps

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Desktop Virtualiza5on for High-‐end 3D Graphics Users XenDesktop with HDX 3D Pro

Client op5ons

Op5mized with special codecs:

Std. ICA codec:

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•  Light 3D apps usage •  Many users per VM •  Very usable experience at 3 Mbps •  Graphics performance and response

optimizations

•  DirectX and OpenGL with HDX 3D

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XenApp with HDX 3D additional features

• Multi-monitor support • Lossless compression

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Apps & Desktop Virtualiza5on for 3D graphics users XenApp with HDX 3D

Std. ICA codec only

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GPU Options

•  Any graphics card (NVIDIA, AMD/ATI) supported by the application vendor

•  NVIDIA cards deliver highest frame rate with VGX™ API (“Monterey”) and support full-screen applications

•  CPU-based deep compression is recommended, but if server CPU is limited then deep compression can be offloaded to the NVIDIA GPU

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GPU Passthrough introduced in XenServer 6

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•  XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro and XenApp HDX 3D

• Windows 7 (32/64-‐bit), Windows XP (32-‐bit), Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-‐bit)

• Mul5ple GPUs per host •  Servers with 4 GPUs currently on HCL; tes5ng underway with 8 • One graphics-‐accelerated VM (single-‐user or mul5-‐user) per GPU

• Depending on CPU power, same host may also support non-‐graphics-‐accelerated users (i.e. regular office workers)

•  Leverages NVIDIA high-‐performance Quadro and Grid GPUs • e.g. Quadro 1000M/2000/3000M/4000/5000/6000, Tesla M2070Q, GRID K1/K2

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Hardware plaform

XenServer GPU Passthrough with XenDesktop

GPU

XenServer hypervisor

XenDesktop Windows VMs

GPU

GPU

GPU

3D Pro VM

3D Pro VM

3D Pro VM

non-‐3D VM

3D Pro VM

non-‐3D VM

non-‐3D VM

non-‐3D VM

non-‐3D VM

non-‐3D VM

non-‐3D VM

non-‐3D VM

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Hardware plaform

XenServer GPU Passthrough with XenApp

GPU


XenApp Windows Server VMs

GPU

GPU

GPU

XenApp VM

XenApp VM

XenApp VM

Session 1

XenApp VM

Session 2 Session 3

Session 4

Session 5

Session N-‐1

Session N . . .

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ws460c G6 blade (Q4000/5000/6000) ß XenServer cer5fied

Servers: DL980 G7, DL370 G6, SL390S G7 and others

R720 rack worksta5on (two dual-‐slot cards, e.g. M2070Q or GRID) ß tested R5500 rack worksta5on (3x Q4000 or 4x Q2000) ß XenServer cer5fied R5400 rack worksta5on (2 PCIe x16 GPUs, e.g. Q4000)

PowerEdge T620 (4x Q2000)

PowerEdge M610x with M2070Q plus C410x PCIe expansion chassis (4 GPU devices per server, 16 total GPUs per chassis) ß tested w/ XenApp

HS22 with GPU expansion blade ß tested with 2x M2070Q

System x iDataPlex dx360 M3/M4 (supports Q4000/Q5000/M2070Q) ß tested

System x iDataPlex x3650 M3/M4 (2 dual-‐slot cards, e.g. GRID) ß cer5fied

Others Cisco C240 M3; Fujitsu TX300; SGI Asterism ID112 ß XenServer cer5fied

Multi-GPU Hardware Platforms

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GPU passthrough and GPU sharing on vSphere 5.1 XenDesktop/XenApp on vSphere 5.1

•  vSphere 5.1 has introduced “virtual Direct Graphics Accelera5on” (vDGA) and “virtual Shared Graphics Accelera5on” (vSGA)

•  Tes5ng for XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro compa5bility with vDGA has been successfully completed (hlp://support.citrix.com/ar5cle/CTX136291)

•  Tes5ng with vSGA successful (single monitor) for “5er 3” use cases

•  vSGA uses API Intercept method of sharing the GPU so performance may be an issue with large 3D models, and graphics API compa5bility is limited to DirectX 9c and OpenGL 2.1

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3D graphics enhancements in Excalibur (first release from project Avalon) Looking ahead…

XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro

•  Mul5-‐monitor support (i.e. more than two)

•  Dynamic resizing without disconnect

•  Auto-‐config / auto-‐adapt (no config tool / user interven5on required) XenApp HDX 3D

• Deep Compression

Citrix Receiver (enhancements targeted for Excalibur 5meframe)

•  Deep Compression support on Mac, iPad, Android

•  HDX SoC support for low-‐cost Linux thin clients

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Hardware vGPU Looking ahead…

At the 2012 GPU Technology Conference, NVIDIA and Citrix announced our collabora5on on GPU Hardware Virtualiza5on •  Enhancements to the VGX™ API and XenServer along with new GRID graphics cards will extend Citrix’s GPU sharing capability from Windows Server RDSH to Windows XP/7/8 VDI

•  Higher performance with large 3D models compared to API Intercept method used by VMware vSphere/ESX and MicrosoP Hyper-‐V

•  Ideal for second 5er users of 3D professional graphics •  Beta trials with selected partners star5ng Q2 2013

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Hardware plaform

GPU Virtualization

GPU


XenDesktop Windows VMs 3D Pro

VM 3D Pro VM

3D Pro VM

3D Pro VM

vGPU

3D Pro VM

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vGPU

vGPU

vGPU

vGPU

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Tips and Tricks

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• Optimize 3D application

• HDX Policies (i recommend) CTX131859 Best Practices and Recommendations for Citrix Receiver 3 and HDX Technology with XenDesktop 5.x CTX132799 XenDesktop and XenApp Best Practice

Tips and Tricks XenApp 6.x HDX 3D

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• Citrix Receiver ADM.file

Tips and Tricks XenApp 6.x HDX 3D

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•  VDA Agent (VDA 4.x, 5.5, 5.6, 5.6FP1)

•  Nvidia drivers (5.6FP1)

•  Multi-monitor support (VDA 4.x, 5.5, 5.6,)

•  3D connexion - 3D Space Mouse (VDA 4.x, 5.5, 5.6, 5.6 FP1)

•  Codec Compression (VDA 4, 5.5, 5.6)

•  ClearType (VDA 4, 5.5, 5.6)

•  Assign CPU cores to VM HDX 3D Pro

Tips and Tricks XenDesktop HDX 3D

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Upgrade existing VDA to HDX 3D Pro •  If you have standard installed VDA and you want to

enable HDX 3D Pro, you have to uninstall and install with HDX 3D Pro parameters.


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Installing or upgrading Nvidia drivers •  If you install NVIDIA drivers before you install XenDesktop Virtual Desktop Agent

with HDX 3D Pro, NVIDIA VGX is enabled by default.

If you install NVIDIA drivers after you install XenDesktop Virtual Desktop Agent with HDX 3D Pro, NVIDIA VGX is disabled. Enable NVIDIA VGX by using the Montereryenable tool provided by NVIDIA.

To enable NVIDIA VGX, run the following command, then restart the virtual desktop agent: Montereyenable.exe –enable –noreset

To disable NVIDIA VGX, run the following command, then restart the virtual desktop agent: Montereyenable.exe –disable –noreset


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Tips and Tricks XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro - Multi-monitor support VDA 4-5.6** hlp://www.poppelgaard.com/how-‐to-‐get-‐receiver-‐with-‐desired-‐screen-‐resolu5on-‐or-‐mul5ple-‐screens-‐to-‐work-‐with-‐citrix-‐xendesktop-‐5-‐5-‐hdx3d-‐pro

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Enable USB redirection to enable 3D spacemouse

Change Virtual Channel Priority CTX128190 Create a key named “WDSettings” under:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Citrix\GroupPolicy\Defaults\] in VDA registry.

Create a MULTI_SZ named “VirtualChannelPriority” with the following content from CTX128190:

increasing the priority of the Generic USB Redirec5on virtual channel to 0 default value CTXGUSB,1 = configure this to CTXGUSB,0

Tips and Tricks XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro

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Vendor Card type CUDA GB/S Power Frame buffer MI Slot PCIe

Nvidia Quadro 2000 192 41.6 62 W 1GB DDR5 128 bit 1 PCI e 2.0

Nvidia Quadro 4000 256 89.6 142 W 2GB DDR5 256 bit 1 PCI e 2.0

Nvidia Quadro 5000 352 120 152 W 2.5GB DDR5 320 bit 2 PCI e 2.0

Nvidia Quadro 6000 448 144 204 W 6GB DDR5 384 bit 2 PCI e 2.0

Nvidia Tesla M2070Q 448 148 225 W 6GB DDR5 384 bit 2 PCI e 2.0

Nvidia Quadro K5000 1536 173 122 W 4GB DDR5 256 bit 2 PCI e 3.0

Sizing GPU solu5ons XenApp HDX 3D -‐ XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro

Vendor Card type CUDA GB/S Power Frame buffer MI Slot PCIe

Nvidia GRID K1 768 150 W 16GB DDR3 2 PCI e 3.0

Nvidia GRID K2 3072 225 W 8GB DDR5 2 PCI e 3.0

NVIDIA GRID (Worlds first GPU virtualiza5on card)

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XenServer 6.0 Multi-GPU Passthrough for XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro Graphics

• http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX126524

XenServer Host The Server CPU should be IOMMU enabled for AMD processors or VT-‐d enabled for Intel processors. Virtual CPUs HDX 3D Pro Graphics u5lizes one virtual CPU completely for extrac5ng desktop surfaces, typically 12 to 30 5mes per second. If Aero is enabled on Windows this requires a second virtual CPU. In addi5on, at least two vCPU is required for the graphics applica5ons. Graphics applica5ons are oPen CPU intensive, even with hardware accelera5on of graphics rendering provided by the GPU. Hence it is important to configure the virtual machine running HDX 3D Pro Graphics with at least four virtual CPUs. Following are the instruc5ons for increasing the number of virtual CPUs on XenServer.

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XenServer 6.0 Multi-GPU Passthrough for XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro Graphics

• http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX135811

Warning: Snapshot does not work with GPU Cards. It is highly recommended to create/delete/revert snapshot of VM when GPU card is not assigned to VM or else you may have garbage entries in XenServer and VM will not start properly. When you assign virtual CPUs to a virtual machine, by default one virtual CPU is equal to one core for a virtual machine. Some virtual machines have higher core limita5ons. By sesng the cores-‐per-‐socket parameter, it is possible to present a virtual machine with certain amount of cores. Note: This feature is only available in the Advanced, Enterprise, and Pla5num edi5ons and is not available in the free version of XenServer.

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XenServer 6.0 Multi-GPU Passthrough for XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro Graphics •  Complete the following procedure to set the cores-per-socket parameter for

Windows virtual machine:

1. Get the Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) of the Virtual Machine for which the parameter needs to be set: xe vm-list name-label=<Name of the VM>

2. Set the cores-per-socket parameter:

xe vm-param-set platform:cores-per-socket=’X’ uuid=<VM UUID from Step1> Here, X equals 2 for dual core and 4 for quad core. For example: To have a CPU with four cores: xe vm-param-set platform:cores-per-socket=4 uuid=<VM UUID>

3. Set the virtual CPUs startup parameter equal to the number of virtual CPUs (number of cores) to be assigned to the virtual machine and set the VCPUs-max parameter to the total number of cores. xe vm-param-set VCPUs-at-startup=<Number of VCPUs> uuid=<VM-UUID> xe vm-param-set VCPUs-max=<Maximum number of cores>. For a dual quad core CPUs, VCPUs-max=8 The number of virtual CPUs at startup is the number of cores to assign to the virtual machine.

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•  Microsoft Process Explorer http://bit.ly/fzWyfq

•  Microsoft GPUView http://bit.ly/KzBTNh

•  Nvidia CUDA SDK

•  GPUz http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

•  HDX Monitor for XenApp http://hdx.citrix.com/hdx-monitor/tech-preview

HDX 3D and HDX 3D Pro Tools for troubleshoo5ng/monitoring

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•  HDX Monitor for XenDesktop http://hdx.citrix.com/hdx-monitor/tech-preview

•  HDX 3D Pro monitor

•  eG Innovations http://bit.ly/JdXqLZ

•  Lakeside Software

•  Login VSI http://www.loginvsi.com/en/download

HDX 3D and HDX 3D Pro Tools for troubleshoo5ng/monitoring

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Additional Information

• Resources: www.citrix.com/xendesktop/HDX3D/ • Blog: www.blogs.citrix.com/product/xendesktop/ • Twitter: @xendesktop • http://www.poppelgaard.com/

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