Best of NVIDIA GTC 2015
NVIDIA GTC 2015
Hi All
After a succesfull NVIDIA GTC (gpu technology conference) in San Jose, March 2015. It was amazing all the brain gathered in one place, at NVIDIA GTC 2015, I had so many great conversations with friends, partners and there was one sentence I thought through “try to imagine what could you do for the world if we tried to build 1 thing with all this brain power in joined forces” . NVIDIA is doing amazing things and this year it was all about “Deep Learning” and “NVIDIA GRID”. Google was part of the keynote and it was very interesting seeing how far AI is evolving, Elon Musk the guy behind Tesla, Space-X was also on stage.
NVIDIA GRID was big this year and all the vendors, Lenovo, HP, Dell, Cisco, Supermicro, Citrix, Vmware and such was there. There was tonz of success stories and best practices. So amazing to learn all the best on GPU enabled application/desktop using either Citrix or VMware, this is the conference to learn from people that are early adapters, the best of the best. If you feel missed out come next year and you understand what I mean. This conference is very different compared to other conferences. This is here it all happens, all industries meet and make a fusion across GPU’s. If you missed this year GTC, I highly recommend you go to the next year GTC which takes place in April 4-8th, 2016 in Silicon Valley
I have captured some of the best moments
Great meeting Lakeside Software and seeing they had the “print” of the case study I did with Magnar Johnsen we did for Firstpoint client AIBEL.
I meet for the first time the CEO and founder of NVIDIA Jen-Hsun Huang, he is a very inspiring person.
Another great friend was Fred Devoir from Textron “the man in the middle” and another great friend and fellow CTP, Dane Young.
Fred Devoir had two sessions at GTC, I highly recommend you watch them both.
If you attended and could see all the sessions or you couldn’t join GTC, now all 500 sessions are available for the public. #AMAZING, thank you NVIDIA for this.
I have in this blogpost made it easy to find all the great sessions about NVIDIA GRID
Learn the best of the best about NVIDIA GRID implementations:
If you want to Watch the session I did at NVIDIA GTC click here
Click the sessions with the “blue” link and the recorded session will start.
Citrix sessions
Gunnar Berger, CTO from Citrix
S5872 – Worlds Collide: What Happens When VDI Meets GPU?
Derek Thorslund, Director of Product Management, HDX, Citrix Systems
Mayunk Jain, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, Citrix Systems
S5390 – Citrix HDX 3D Virtualization: Six Years of Remoting 3D Apps
Roland Wartenberg Director Global SAP Alliance, Citrix
David Cruickshank Sr. Director, Strategy and Operations, SAP Co-Innovation Lab, SAP Labs
S5377 – Running SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Using Citrix and NVIDIA – What about Performance?
Erik Bohnhorst, SR. GRID Solution Architect from NVIDIA
Ronald Grass, SR. Systems Engineer from Citrix
S5393 – Evolution of an NVIDIA GRID™ Deployment
Citrix customer success stories:
Success story – Ford Motor Company
Chip Charnley, Technical Expert from Ford Motor Company
S5206 – So You Want to Deploy High Resolution Graphics Desktop Virtualization
Success story – Roger Williams University
George Thornton, VP of Engineering from Logical Front
Jim Galib IT Director from Roger Williams University
Ryan Tiebout, System Operations Manager from Rogers Williams University
S5225 – University’s Desktop Virtualization Delivers Graphics-Intense Apps on Any Device
Success story – Duke University
G Allan Johnson Charles E Putman Professor of Radiology,Physics, and Engineering from Duke University
S5558 – Publishing Medical Image Studies with NVIDIA GRID™
Success story – Georgia Institute of Technology College of Engineering
Florian Becker Sr. Director, Strategic Alliances, Lakeside Software
Didier Contis Director Technology Services, Georgia Institute of Technology College of Engineering
Success story – Textron
Fred Devoir Sr. Architect, Textron Inc.
Randall Siggers Solutions Architect, Textron Inc.
Success story – The Kanavel Group
Garrett Taylor CIO, The Kanavel Group
S5620 – Implementing NVIDIA GRID with XenDesktop: A Technical Deep Dive
VMware sessions
Mark Margevicius Director, EUC Strategy, VMWare
Banit Agrawal Senior Performance Engineer, VMware
Luke Wignall GRID Performance Engineering Manager, NVIDIA
Lan Vu Performance Engineer, VMware
S5385 – Benchmarking 3D workloads at scale on NVIDIA GRID with Horizon View 6 using View Planner
Jeff Weiss NVIDIA GRID SA Manager, NVIDIA
Luke Wignall GRID Performance Engineering Manager, NVIDIA
S5405 – VMware Horizon 6 and NVIDIA vGPU: Installation and Configuration Best Practices
VMware customer success stories
Success story – Jacobs Engineering
Jeff Weiss NVIDIA GRID SA Manager, NVIDIA
Randall Siggers Solutions Architect, Textron Inc.
Ali Rizvi PLM Support Analyst, Bell Helicopter
S5345 – VMware Horizon 6 View with NVIDIA GRID: A Practical Discussion of a Real-World Deployment
Success story – USC Information Sciences Institute
John Paul Walters Project Leader, USC Information Sciences Institute
S5323 – Achieving Near-Native GPU Performance in the Cloud
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Success story – HDR Inc
Clint Pearson IT Infrastructure Systems Lead, HDR, Inc.
Jeremy Korell IT Infrastructure Systems Lead, HDR, Inc.
S5414 – GPU-Enabled VDI and Rendering at Architecture and Engineering Firm HDR
Vendors (HP, Cisco, Lakeside Software)
System Integrators of NVIDIA GRID
System Integrators success stories of NVIDIA GRID
Success story – Poppelgaard.com
Thomas Poppelgaard, Technology Evangelist from Poppelgaard.com
S5445 – Building the Best User Experience with Citrix XenApp & NVIDIA® GRID™
Success story – PQR
Jits Langedijk, Senior Consultant from PQR
Success story – IMSCAD
Adam Jull CEO, IMSCAD
S5219 – Delivering Production Deployments Using Virtualization and NVIDIA GRID™
Success story – Wipro
Michael Harwood Citrix Architect, Wipro Limited
S5283 – Remote Visualization in Healthcare
Panel discussions
Aivars Apsite, Technology Strategist, Metro Health
Cedric Courteix, Partner Alliance Architect, VMware
Clint Pearson, IT Systems Lead, HDR Inc.
John Meza, Performance Engineering Team Lead, Esri
S5542 – Scaling Out Virtual GPU with NVIDIA GRID and VMware Horizon
NVIDIA sessions about Citrix & VMware
Jason Southern Senior Solution Architect, NVIDIA
Manvender Rawat GRID Applied Engineer, NVIDIA
Jason K Lee GRID Applied Engineer, NVIDIA
S5560 – Scalability Testing for Virtualized GPU Environments