NVIDIA GRID brings powerful visual computing capabilities to India

BANGALORE, INDIA: Businesses across India can now deploy graphics-accelerated virtual desktops to their employees - cost-effectively, anywhere and on any device - with the adoption of NVIDIA GRID technology by leading technology partners, NVIDIA announced.

Servers from Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM and others are now incorporating NVIDIA GRID into their desktop virtualization solutions.

Combined with enterprise virtualization software from Citrix, Microsoft or VMware, these solutions can deliver GPU-accelerated applications and desktops to engineers, designers, architects, product design teams and special-effects artists throughout India.

Bringing rich user experience to virtualized desktops
NVIDIA GRID technology enables employees to use their own notebooks and portable devices to access all their office productivity and design applications virtually - just as they would at their desks, as long as they are connected via the Internet.

Prior to NVIDIA GRID, desktop virtualization technologies were limited by performance and compatibility constraints that severely compromised applications for building information management, product-lifecycle management and video-photo editing. Even the user experience of Microsoft Windows was limited.

India at forefront of virtual desktops
The emergence of NVIDIA GRID technology has signaled the beginning of a new era in visual cloud computing. This is particularly relevant in markets like India that have been fast to adopt desktop virtualization and where companies rely on geographically dispersed teams that can take advantage of the work efficiency, data consolidation and IT security that a virtual desktop can provide.

The missing element, until the introduction of NVIDIA GRID, had been the ability to deliver to users an experience that includes interactive graphics, which is critical for designers, engineers and artists to do their best work.

"Autodesk is constantly looking for new ways to help companies of all sizes, creative visionaries and consumers to imagine, create and design a better world. Our users are some of the most talented artists and engineers you'd find," said Pradeep Nair, MD, Autodesk India & SAARC. "With NVIDIA GRID, our customers can get the rich visual Autodesk experience, essentially anywhere, on any client computer they choose to use."

Recent announcements such as the IBM Flex, HP WS460c Gen8 and Fujitsu Celsius R930 bring the total number of NVIDIA GRID-enabled server platforms to 25.