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50 Dell HPC System for Manufacturing—System Architecture and Application Performance
6 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
A PowerEdge R730 VDI server was included in the reference system configured as previously described in
Section 2.5. In order to evaluate the VDI server, NICE EnginFrame and Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV)
were installed on the reference system.
The NICE EnginFrame and DCV solution provides remote visualization software and a grid portal for
managing remote visualization sessions and HPC job submission, control, and monitoring. NICE
EnginFrame is the grid portal component. For this evaluation, EnginFrame 2015.1 r38894 was installed on
the cluster master node. NICE DCV enables remote access to 2D and 3D applications over a standard
network, providing GPU acceleration for 3D applications. DCV 2016.0 r16811 was installed on the VDI
server.
With the NICE remote visualization solution, EnginFrame primarily provides management of remote
visualization sessions and has no impact on the performance of the DCV component. For this evaluation,
EnginFrame was tested to verify correct operation and successful integration with the overall system. It
was also used to manage the remote desktop sessions on the VDI server. A screen capture of the
EnginFrame VIEWS portal, showing an active Linux Desktop session, is shown in Figure 47.
Various applications and datasets were used to verify the operation of DCV, as listed in Table 6. This
evaluation primarily focused on stability and correct operation of the NICE solution and a qualitative
evaluation of the interactive application performance in both LAN and WAN environments. Screen
captures showing several of the applications and datasets used for the evaluation are shown in Figure 48
through Figure 50.
DCV Evaluation Software
Software Version Datasets
LSTC
LS-PrePost
4.3_centos7
car2car-ver10
ODB10M-ver14
ANSYS
Fluent
v17.1
JetDemo
small-indy
BETA CAE
mETA Post
v16.1.0 OpenFOAM 2.4.0 motorBike
glmark2 2014.03 OpenGL ES 2.0