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Citrix HDX 3D for Professional Graphics – a quick'n'dirty review
A few days ago Citrix released a long awaited product, it is called HDX 3D for Professional Graphics. HDX 3D is a technology to delivery professional graphic applications (CAD/CAM) like AutoCAD through or with the ICA protocol in LAN (100 Mbps) and even in WAN (2 Mbps, with up to 200ms latency) scenarios.
This technology has a very long history with dozens of code names like boing, pictor, visual design studio, apollo, prism and finally the 1.0 release is called HDX 3D for Professional Graphics (ProGfx). HDX 3D is an add-on to XenDesktop 3.0 and it works with OpenGL and DirectX-based graphic applications which need graphics hardware (GPU) acceleration.
Even if this is a XenDesktop add-on version 1.0 of HDX 3D ProGfx doesn’t work with virtual machines. It only works with physical hardware like blade pcs or rack workstations . As ProGfx can leverage NVIDIA’s CUDA technology it is recommended that your hardware contains a graphic card with a NVIDIA GPU. More…