Nvidia has a platform for cloud computing and a platform for cloud gaming announced. Thus, the company wants to complete and fast 3d acceleration and can offer services in virtualization environments and cloudgamingdiensten.
The combination of software and hardware would make it possible to with 1 gpu a hundred users, with different types of devices, at the same time a native desktop experience, according to Nvidia. The company is referring specifically on certain user profiles, where the one user, the gpu-power of a workstation may get, and the other that of a regular office pc.
To that statement, power to convert, the company kept on the GPU Technology Conference with a demo, in which fluent a simulation was performed in Autodesk on a Windows installation that, by means of the virtualisatiedienst of Citrix, via the internet, with an iPad was connected. There was also a Macbook Air via Citrix connected with renderfarm to a few movie scenes to edit in movie editing software. With the VGX platform wants, Nvidia is clearly focusing on workstationgebruik, such as film and photo editing.
At the same conference suggested Nvidia the GeForce Grid-cloudgamingplatform for. This would make it a service like Gakai or Onlive offer, but to say without the lag that often accompanies. The platform uses about the same system as VGX, but then with a special GeForce Grid gpu in the servers. Which consists of two Kepler gpus, each with 1536 cuda cores, which is 4.7 teraflops can be achieved. The device, whether a smartphone, tablet, thin-client or fat-client, don’t have to render out a h264 video stream, that it will receive from the cloudgamingplatform.
Nvidia showed at the conference a demo with the not yet released game Hawken. That game turned on a Gakai server with the GeForce Grid gpu, which is ten kilometers away was. The server of Gakai sent than simply a video stream to a smart tv and an Asus tablet. According to The Verge was the gameplay completely lag-free, as if it were on a console or home computer was played.
For the last project has Nvidia been immediately received support from some developers, such as EPIC, Capcom and THQ. Online-cloudgamingdienst Gakai is the technology to use. The VGX platform, that especially on the enterprisemarkt will later this year become available. The Grid platform is still no clear release schedule known.
