• Enables
up to four concurrent users to access a single workstation from virtually
anywhere for the first time
• Designed
to improve ROI through increased access and better utilization of workstation assets
• Dell
Precision R5500 rack workstation is the first four-GPU platform to receive
Citrix XenServer GPU pass-through certification
Dell announced
today it is expanding its client virtualization solutions with the introduction
of the first virtualized 2U rack workstation enabling up to four concurrent
professional graphics users to work from a single workstation from virtually
anywhere. The
Dell Precision R5500 rack workstation is the first four-GPU (graphics
processing unit) configuration to be certified by Citrix with GPU pass-through
on Citrix XenServer® 6 using Citrix XenDesktop® HDX™ 3D Pro, and brings
additional security, IT resource optimization and end user flexibility to high
performance workloads. This new usage model is designed for customers running
3D workloads in the engineering, medical, media and entertainment, scientific,
software development and economic and finance market segments looking to
support additional users on a single workstation.
Additional benefits of a virtualized rack workstation
include the ability to centralize, secure and manage data, leverage worldwide
talent pool, share resources for improved cost effectiveness and run
performance critical applications that require the host system and data to be
in close proximity. Users can connect to the powerful, dependable and
manageable Dell Precision R5500 via Dell and non-Dell computing devices
including thin clients, laptops, desktops or other mobile devices that have a
loaded Citrix Receiver™.
“The Dell Precision R5500 offers the highest user density
available on a XenServer certified platform for XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro, with
four concurrent users per host,” said Derek Thorslund, director of product
management, HDX technology at Citrix. “This makes it a very attractive option
for customers looking to deliver high-end 3D professional graphics while
keeping their intellectual property safe in the data center.”
Citrix XenServer with HDX 3D Pro enables the virtualized
workstation environment with a dedicated discrete graphics card per user or
virtual machine. The dedicated graphics provides the user with full access to
the graphics card in a virtualized environment. Users can configure their Dell
Precision R5500 with up to four NVIDIA Quadro® 2000 mid-range graphics cards,
with other high-end NVIDIA Quadro graphics cards available soon. Dell’s 2U rack
workstation offers industry standard bus slots with options of up to five
full-height and full-length PCIe slots, and industry standard graphics and GPU
compute cards including the newest NVIDIA Quadro and NVIDIA Tesla® solutions.
“This new rack workstation configuration from Dell
provides designers and engineers with a unique virtualized desktop performance
option,” said Jeff Brown, general manager, Professional Solutions Group,
NVIDIA. “Dell's R5500 powered by NVIDIA Quadro GPUs gives these users an
opportunity to experience the full power of high-end OpenGL, Direct X and CUDA
applications in a small form-factor, virtualized desktop environment.”
In addition to high-end graphics support, the R5500
provides the full scalability and powerful performance of Dell’s high-end tower
workstations in a 2U form factor. It is purpose-engineered for professionals
who run compute and graphics intensive workloads and require extreme
performance with remote capability. It offers high-performance Intel Xeon
processors with memory capacity of up to 192GB¹and dual-wide GPU slots that scale
up to 450 watts, up to six 2.5-inch SAS HDDs or five SATA HDDs. The R5500 is
designed for dependable and peak performance so comes with Dell’s advanced
service and support and robust manageability and security options.
“We are working closely with Citrix and NVIDIA to enable
new usage models to address the needs of our workstation customers,” said
Efrain Rovira, executive director of Dell Precision workstations. “This
industry first four-GPU XenServer certification delivers increased productivity
and flexibility to our customers and it adds to the list of innovations we’ve
introduced to the workstation industry.”
Availability
Citrix XenServer with GPU pass-through is available
worldwide through Citrix and Dell S&P. The starting price for the Dell Precision
R5500 is $2,742 USD.
Visit Dell at NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference
in booth #17 and #18 this week to see the Dell Precision R5500 workstation and
learn more about the new Citrix XenServer GPU pass-through certification.
For more information on Dell Virtual desktop solutions click here.
