John Meza, Performance Engineering Manager, Esri Shawn Kaiser, Solution Architect, Cisco
Applications from your Private Cloud John Meza, Performance - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Delivering GPU-Accelerated Applications from your Private Cloud John Meza, Performance Engineering Manager, Esri Shawn Kaiser, Solution Architect, Cisco Esri Virtualization Infrastructure Internal Esri Virtualization - 6,500 8,000 VMs
Esri Virtualization Infrastructure
- Internal Esri Virtualization
- 6,500 – 8,000 VMs operational daily
- Windows Server + Desktop, Linux
- Supporting users throughout Esri
- Marketing
- Sales
- Development
- Education Services
- Professional Services
- Critical Infrastructure on-premise and off-premise replication
- Additional cloud-based infrastructure
ArcGIS Pro
New Product – GA Jan 2015
Combines 2D and 3D visualization and spatial analysis into 1 package State of the art 64-bit, multi-threaded application Modern Rendering Engine supporting DirectX and OpenGL that provides fast, responsive, game-like visualization to the most complex 2D and 3D data
GeoProcessing
ArcGIS Pro
OpenGL
Spatial Analysis Data Management
Rendering Engine
Hypervisor - VMWare Nvidia GRID
Business Drivers & Technical Challenges
Existing virtualization infrastructure
Did not support GPU backed virtualization.
All work had to be performed on physical machines Against Corporate push to move more workloads to virtualization
Business Drivers & Technical Challenges Internal Virtualization Needs
Pro Engineering & Development Testing of Pro in
Hands-on Holistic Lab
Pro class development & Testing Technical Support of Pro
ArcGIS User Community
Virtualization is heavily used Pro must be tested in virtualized environments
Solution: Cisco UCS C240 M4
- Our solution
- 4 Cisco UCS C240s + Fiber Interconnect
- 2x Nvidia GRID K2 in each
- Administrated through existing Vcenter
Each C240 server supports up to 16 VMs using K240Q profile Power users use K260Q profile
- Graphics Developers
- Class Developer
Cisco Data Center Portfolio and NVIDIA
- Virtual workstation for high-end graphics applications
- Cisco UCS C240 M4 Rack servers
- Support NVIDIA GRID 1.0 and 2.0 with K1/K2 and M60 cards
- Support for Magma ExpressBox for higher density
- Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade servers
- Recently introduced NVIDIA M6 MXM support on Blade server
- Cisco HyperFlex –2nd generation HyperConverged
platform
- Phase 1: K1/K2 support
- Phase 2: M6/M60 support
- Deep Learning and HPC
- Cisco UCS C240 Rack servers with TESLA K80