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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


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John Meza, Performance Engineering Manager, Esri Shawn Kaiser, Solution Architect, Cisco

Delivering GPU-Accelerated Applications from your Private Cloud

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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
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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

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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

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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

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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
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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
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