It's a VDI solution. Not a server graphics card. Not a server processing card. Of course, to be of any real value, VDI would first need to NOT SUCK. You can cram a decent number of users onto that card - as long as they aren't using Aero and you keep them at crap resolutions. Like, say, 1440x900 or 1680x1050 @ 16bpp 60Hz. Presuming you've got 10GbE into the box. 1920x1080, much less 1920x1200? Uh, yeah. Let's do some math here. A given pixel is 3 bytes; 1920x1080 = 2073600 pixels. 2073600 * 3 bytes (32bpp or emulated 12-bit color) = 6220800 bytes/cycle, 60Hz = 60 cycles/second. Thus, 6220800 * 60 = 373248000 bytes/second. That's 2847Mbit/s. Per display. The things they do to cram that into Gigabit Ethernet basically mean that the S10000 will be great for taking graphics render load off the CPU, but they'll still be stuck with high latency crap they hate.
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Of course, to be of any real value, VDI would first need to NOT SUCK. You can cram a decent number of users onto that card - as long as they aren't using Aero and you keep them at crap resolutions. Like, say, 1440x900 or 1680x1050 @ 16bpp 60Hz. Presuming you've got 10GbE into the box.
1920x1080, much less 1920x1200? Uh, yeah. Let's do some math here. A given pixel is 3 bytes; 1920x1080 = 2073600 pixels. 2073600 * 3 bytes (32bpp or emulated 12-bit color) = 6220800 bytes/cycle, 60Hz = 60 cycles/second. Thus, 6220800 * 60 = 373248000 bytes/second. That's 2847Mbit/s. Per display.
The things they do to cram that into Gigabit Ethernet basically mean that the S10000 will be great for taking graphics render load off the CPU, but they'll still be stuck with high latency crap they hate.