A Virtualization Desktop Application Platform of the Virtualized Graphics Processing Unit Technology on FlexPod Architecture

Shardrom Johnson,Jun Zheng,Guorui Li,G Lee

doi:10.1051/matecconf/201822802005

Abstract

Intelligent equipment and network application based on Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Internet of Things and other emerging technologies are becoming one of the most important efforts in the construction of experimental and training information infrastructure in Colleges and Universities. Aiming at the problem that the application environment of teaching experiment and training in Colleges and Universities of Art and Design requires higher performance ability of virtual desktop and graphics processing, the specific characteristics on training room of art and design, and the design ideas and principles of virtualization desktop technology, are analysed on the unique perspective of specific projects of Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts. A virtualization desktop application platform of the Virtualized Graphics Processing Unit Technology on FlexPod Architecture is put forward. With the application of this platform, the performance of the desktop is improving, and the complexity of IT management is reducing, and the model for the application of the virtual desktop technology for colleges and universities of art and design is provided.

Highlights

Intelligent equipment and network application based on Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Internet of Things and other emerging technologies are becoming one of the most important efforts in the construction of experimental and training information infrastructure in Colleges and Universities [1,2]
With the implementation of Outline of Reform and Development of China National Medium and Long-Term Education (2010-2020), virtualized desktop technology, one of the important contents of “accelerating the construction of educational information infrastructure”, is integrated into the overall strategy of national informatization development [3,4]. It has become one of the key tasks of promoting the educational information infrastructure in colleges and universities to actively carry out the application and practice of virtualized desktop technology [5,6]
The overall platform architecture of virtualized desktop technology is achieved by using the cloud computing platform built in 2013 and a proven FlexPod architecture based on the Cisco UCS Unified Computing System, Nexus Data Center Switch and Netapp FAS Unified Storage, deploying Citrix Xendesktop desktop virtualization on the FlexPod architecture and realizing the release of the final virtualized graphics workstation in conjunction with the Nvidia GRID K2 graphics card

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Introduction

Intelligent equipment and network application based on Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Internet of Things and other emerging technologies are becoming one of the most important efforts in the construction of experimental and training information infrastructure in Colleges and Universities [1,2]. With the implementation of Outline of Reform and Development of China National Medium and Long-Term Education (2010-2020), virtualized desktop technology, one of the important contents of “accelerating the construction of educational information infrastructure”, is integrated into the overall strategy of national informatization development [3,4]. It has become one of the key tasks of promoting the educational information infrastructure in colleges and universities to actively carry out the application and practice of virtualized desktop technology [5,6]. The main performances are as follows: the frequency of the update of computer systems increases while the utilization rate does not improve; the update rates of application system may be significantly improved while the stability and safety are enormously reduced; the standardization of the overall IT equipment becomes more difficult while the workload of IT administrators is significantly increased

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