Does remote desktop use hardware acceleration?

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A desktop container node is a designated node for hosting the users remote desktop. An HPC cluster can have multiple desktop containers which are sized based on the number of users and activities performed by the users within the remote desktop. Typically, 1 CPU core and 2 GB RAM is recommended for every remote desktop. In certain cases, these desktop container nodes can be enhanced with high speed interconnects like Infiniband, especially when the cluster backbone has a parallel file system like Intel® Lustre, IBM GPFS etc. These nodes do not require a physical graphics card since they do not perform any high end visualization themselves.

A visualization node is a node where user applications are executed. These nodes need one or more hardware GPUs from NVIDIA or AMD, these GPUs are shared among user applications by Gomputes GPU load balancing capability. A cluster can have multiple visualization nodes and these are sized based on the number of active applications in which each user is working on at any time. Typically, clusters have visualization nodes of different sizes, with a different number of graphics cards and the Gompute Distributed Resource Manager selects the node appropriate for the users requirements. Note that, although the user might have just one remote desktop active on a Desktop Container node, he/she can have multiple applications, on different visualization nodes, actively open within that one remote desktop. As with desktop container nodes, visualization nodes, in certain cases, would be enhanced with a high speed interconnect like Infiniband.

High latency is a major inhibitor to the adoption of remote desktop technologies in corporations where the work force is geographically distributed. To improve user experience on a high latency link, Gompute has developed a software accelerator for remote desktop traffic which utilizes a UDP based protocol to minimizethe effects of high latency. Additionally, this accelerator has built in congestion control algorithms for usein corporate WAN links which already have different types of traffic present.

GomputeXplorer is the end user client, supported on Microsoft ® Windows®, Redhat and SUSE Linux desktops. This is the client which is used to create, access and monitor remote desktops. One GomputeXplorer instance can connect to multiple clusters with Gompute Remote Desktop capability.

Policies are deployed for handling the diverse requirements of various teams in an enterprise. The Gompute remote desktop solution deploys these policies using the Gompute distributed resource manager. These policies could grant exclusive node access, reserving nodes for certain groups, setting idle time-out for desktops, etc.