A couple of weeks ago Patrick Rouse blogged about the work we are doing in Graphics Acceleration for VDI and Terminal Services. In addition to the demonstration in Patrick’s post, we’ve been showing another, different demonstration video to our partners and customers. Since everybody was so excited about this, I decided to put it up here as well.
This demonstration video of Provision Networks Graphics Acceleration for VDI and Terminal Services is a “side by side” demonstration video. In the demonstration, one Virtual Desktop shows the user experience using “just” the RDP protocol and the other Virtual Desktop shows the user experience with the Provision Networks Graphics Acceleration components installed. The demonstration shows the user experience when browsing a flash intensive website, a graphically intense website and a typical “modern” website that has both flash and graphics.
The demonstration was created by recording the user experience of two 800×600 Virtual Desktop sessions side-by-side. Since this yields a rather large video with a big resolution, I have re-rendered the video to a maximum width of 1024 pixels so that it should fit on most screens.
Provision Networks Graphics Acceleration Demo
Please be aware that this is a prototype. The fact that it is a prototype makes that it has a bad side as well as a good side: the good side that is that the RTM version of the Provision Networks Graphics Acceleration will be even more impressive, the bad news is that it is not available yet.
Let us know what you think. Is this something you could use?
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August 4th, 2008 at 3:21 am
I think the graphics acceleration is a big benefit to delivering VDI solutions - makes the user experience more positive and addressing some of the minor drawback of VDI. I’d like to test / trial this with some Graphics / CAD / Mapping software ..very popular apps used in teaching and research in Academia enviroments. Does the solution work with all client devices ie ..standard pc’s , laptops and thin clients - does it use the local graphics of the device
please advise
regards
prit
August 4th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
These details will be released at a future date.
August 6th, 2008 at 8:17 am
RDP has long been promised by to be able to compete with ICA by many companies. VMware with there implementation of their Sunray solution made some improvements in the performance of RDP, but I do not think that it rivals the performance of this graphic acceleration implementation. I would like to see this added to the Experience Pack sooner that later.
August 31st, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Very impressive; I caught some of the other demo videos before, and I’m very excited about this as I’m currently working on a VDI solution for our infrastructure.
Do we have an ETA on ship date for this component?