Hi all, I am proudly to announce I’m doing a Webinar at NVIDIA GTC Express, 20th June 2013.

What is NVIDIA GTC Express

GTC Express is a year-round extension of the great content that attendees of GPU Technology Conference have become accustomed to. Each month GTC Express features innovative and thought-provoking webinars, presented by some of the most talented developers, engineers, and research scientists pursuing GPU-enabled work and sharing how GPUs are transforming their fields of work.

GPUs are changing the science of computing, as well as mission critical practical applications. Make GTC Express part of your on-going education! GTC Express is free to the entire GPU community.

Title: GPU Accelerated XenDesktop for Designers and Engineers

If you’ve ever wanted to virtualize your CAD or professional video graphics application and have the exact same local experience on a secure central platform, then this webinar provides insight on how to get there. Join Technology Evangelist, Thomas Poppelgaard, and learn how Citrix XenDesktop®, XenApp® and XenServer®, in combination with NVIDIA GRID VGX, makes it possible to virtualize 2D/3D applications from any device, anywhere, while keeping your data and intellectual property safe and secure.

date: Thursday, June 20, 2013 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PDT Register for the webinar here its free

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Check out all the NVIDIA GTC express Webinars here

This is one of my favorite tools for benchmarking.

Login VSI have released a new version of their famous industrial benchmark tool Login VSI 4.0, a major new release of its flagship product Login VSI, the industry standard performance and scalability testing tool for Virtual Desktop Infrastructures and Server Based Computing environments.

VDI and SBC performance testing now easier and more realistic than ever with Login VSI 4.0

New Login VSI 4.0 dramatically improves ease of installation, test creation and test management, and offers unparalleled production level realism in workload patterns, datasets and test execution.

The design of this new version has been driven by extensive customer feedback programs, and production testing projects executed at multiple customer and vendor sites, including the tests done for the acclaimed independent research project Virtual Reality Check. Login VSI 4.0 makes testing of VDI and SBC environments easier and more realistic than ever before.

Improved ease of installation

The test image footprint of Login VSI has been reduced by almost 90%. This makes the tool not only easier to install, but also easier to integrate and deploy. Centralization of management, updates and logging makes the use of Login VSI more efficient than ever. Direct Desktop Launch (DDL) mode enables large-scale testing with minimal infrastructure.

Improved ease of test creation

The new intuitive and workflow oriented user interface of Login VSI 4.0 offers step-by-step test creation and wizard based test configuration for all important brokers and languages. The new workload editor introduces a new meta language which makes the customization of workloads very transparent and efficient. The new benchmarking mode enforces strict testing standards, providing industry standard results that are objective, comparable and repeatable.

Improved test realism

The duration of the standard workloads has been increased from 14 to 48 minutes loops. Also the way in which segments and applications start has been improved to better reflect real world user behaviour. The datasets used in the workloads now offer 1000 different documents per type, more and larger websites, and a video library in every format, all to ensure a real world variety in data usage. The execution of the workloads is improved through the introduction of phasing, allowing for real world production user scenarios.

Improved test insight

The new dashboard offers real-time test feedback, including progress, launched and active sessions, elapsed time and time left of the test in progress. The industry standard index VSImax has been further refined, enriching scalability results (max number of users), with objective baseline performance results (independent of tested load). Automated reporting with out of the box report ready graphs for all used settings, response times, and other data enhances the level, and choice, of information generated by the Login VSI analyzer.

“Login VSI is the industry standard for SBC and VDI testing and benchmarking, as is well demonstrated by the large number of technical papers that are available based on results from our benchmarking suite” says Eric-Jan van Leeuwen, CEO of Login VSI B.V. “The ease of use, and improved realism, of this new version of Login VSI will enable both vendor and end-user organizations to build and protect well performing virtual desktop environments”.

Login VSI 4.0 Pro is now available for all customers on active support and maintenance. Version 4.0 of the free Login VSI Express can be downloaded at www.loginvsi.com/download. More information about Login VSI and related services can be found at www.loginvsi.com.

About Login VSI

Login Virtual Session Indexer (Login VSI) is a vendor independent benchmarking tool to objectively test and measure the performance and scalability of Virtual Desktop Infrastructures and Server Based Computing environments by simulating unique user workloads. Leading IT-analysts recognize and recommend Login VSI as the de-facto industry standard benchmarking tool for VDI and SBC. Login VSI can be used to test VMware Horizon View, Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services or any other Windows based hosted desktop solution. Login VSI is the standard tool used in all tests that are executed in the internationally acclaimed Project Virtual Reality Check. For more information visit www.loginvsi.com.

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Read more about LoginVSI here

Hi All

I am proud to announce that I am speaking again at E2EVC (experts to experts virtualization conference) in 31th May – 2th June 2013.
This time it will be held in the beautiful Copenhagen in Denmark, so this is a good chance too meet some of the super geeks that works with Citrix, Microsoft or Vmware technologies. Alot of CTP (citrix technology professional), MVP (Microsoft value professional) VCP (Vmware certified professional) will attend and share their knowledge with the croud.

You can meet famous people like Carl Webster (CTP, MVP),  dr. Benny Trisch (CTP, MVP) , Wilco Van Bragt (CTP) and many many more.

Join us for the independent E2EVC Virtualization Conference in Copenhagen May 31-June 2, 2013 in Scandic Sydhavnen Hotel Copenhagen. The conference, which had 18 successful past events all over Europe, is 3 days – from Friday to Sunday and cover multiple Citrix, VMware, Microsoft and virtualization products from other vendors. It is a great opportunity to meet with the peers from virtualization industry and to share know how in a nice, relaxing atmosphere. More than 20 break-out sessions and 3 Master Classes await your participation. To have a glimpse at the Agenda click here. We look forward to meet you all in Copenhagen!

My session Saturday 1th June 2013 at E2EVC in Copenhagen:

Session – Which 3D remoting technologies are available today from VMware, Citrix and Microsoft

Short description:

• Protocol advantages disadvantages
• Hypervisors, what’s available and how do you configure this + advantages / disadvantages
• Use cases from real world examples.
• People will learn how it’s possible to centralize the apps that requires GPU and how they can deliver this
• Hands experience on worlds first GPU that can be virtualized, how does it work with Citrix, Microsoft, Vmware

Visit www.e2evc.com/home for the conference agenda and registration information (special 1st May offer till 2013-05-03 only; more here).

Citrix have released a new version of Citrix ShareFile Sync 2.2 for Windows

ShareFile Sync for Windows is designed to provide ShareFile Enterprise customers with an easy way to access and synchronize folders from your ShareFile account to your local computer or virtual desktop.

This release works on Microsoft Windows 8, Windows 7, XP and Vista.

New Features in Citrix ShareFile Sync 2.2 for Windows:

• On-Demand Sync – Improved performance and stability with SyncEngine / SyncService optimizations and several bug fixes.
• Proxy Configuration – An updated UI is available, which allows the user to specify credentials required for proxy authentication. The UI also allows for automatic proxy configuration using a configuration script, and automatic proxy configuration using DNS and DHCP.

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Download Citrix ShareFile Sync 2.2 for Windows here

This video is shows the user experience with NVIDIA GRID K2 and Citrix XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro and Citrix XenApp HDX 3D virtualized with Citrix XenServer.

The users can access their DirectX / OpenGL applications through a Citrix receiver on any device with low bandwidth. Citrix XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro have a deep compression codec, which Citrix XenApp HDX 3D dont have. This video shows the bandwidth consumption, and XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro is the leader in using less bandwidth on high latency connections.

About the solution:

1 physical server in this use case: Dell PowerEdge R720 with NVIDIA GRID K2.

1 virtual machine with Windows 7 64bit with Citrix XenDesktop 5.6FP1 HDX 3D Pro and a second virtual machine with Windows Server 2008R2 with Citrix XenApp 6.5 HDX 3D. Both machines are virtualized with Citrix XenServer 6.1 and each virtual machine have GPU attached with GPU-passthrough to the a NVIDIA GRID K2 card.

The Citrix XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro have a deep compression codec integrated that usages low bandwidth, its a 1-1 solution. Best on WAN, fastest framerate.

This Citrix XenApp HDX 3D can share 1 GPU to multiple users with applications that uses OpenGL & DirectX. Best ROI, user density

Citrix XenServer 6.x & Citrix XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro &  Citrix XenApp 6.5 is running on a Dell R720 with NVIDIA GRID K2

read more on my blog about Citrix XenApp HDX 3D and Citrix XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro

http://www.poppelgaard.com