14 DAY TRIAL // NVIDIA doesn't seem to care much that if it promotes server-based gaming, it will make high-end personal computer hardware superfluous, its own range of video boards included.
During CES 2013, the Santa Clara, California-based company finally made good on a promise it had made the year before.
Granted, “promise” might be too strong a word, but the fact remains that NVIDIA has created a graphics card meant to be used in cloud servers.
Those cloud servers would play games like Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and any others really, regardless of graphics demands.
And with all the computing and image processing done on the server, gamers would only need a good Internet connection to play them at maximum settings on their regular desktops, laptops, even tablets and smartphones.
Supermicro has just announced a server designed with NVIDIA's GeForce GRID video accelerators: the industry’s only 1U 3x Nvidia Grid K2 qualified SuperServer.
“Nvidia and Supermicro are bringing to market a high-density server platform for virtual desktops and applications,” said Ed Ellett, senior vice president of Nvidia’s professional solutions business.
“The Supermicro servers set a new standard for high-density Nvidia Grid deployments, delivering high user densities with maximized performance, power conservation and ROI, thus removing conventional barriers to VDI deployments.”
Supermicro also has GRID K1 systems at the 2013 Nvidia GPU technology conference (GTC 2013).
Up to 600 users can be supported by each 42U rack. Moreover, forthcoming 4U FatTwin configurations will have what it takes for 1,800 users per rack.
“With platforms ranging from 12 GPUs in our 4U power saving FatTwin to the widest variety of 3U, 2U and 1U SuperServer solutions, Supermicro has the reach to provide the absolute best GPU cluster solutions quickly for any customer requirement,” said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro.
“With virtualization at the forefront of this year’s GTC, Supermicro will be showing our expertise and readiness for this new revolution in GPU computing.”