
NVIDIA Enterprise
Innovation Days Dach
In the context of the above-mentioned online event, sysGen gave
on 01.07.2020 the lecture
"VDI by Day-Compute@Night".
Our speakers:
- Dieter Nikisch (founder) of sysGen
- Holger Rüße (CEO) and Maximilian Depta of MuM Osnabrück
- Rainer Schittek (Head of IT- und EAP) of PurPlan

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For compute intensive server workloads such as artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning, and Data Science.

Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation
For professional graphics applications; includes an NVIDIA Quadro driver.

GRID Virtual PC
For virtual desktops delivering standard PC applications, browser, and multimedia.

GRID Virtual Applications
Use with Citrix XenApp or other RDSH solutions like VMware Horizon Apps.
- Optimized license usage : (distribution according to need/costs).
- Cost savings through longer usage times of the end devices
- Centrality - Data management - Data security - Updates
- Mobile workstations (Home office, office workstations via inexpensive end devices - Through the server with the virtual workstations the data always remains in the data center or the cloud).
- Loading time optimization(10 bis 400 Gbit/s)
- Reduction of the administrative workload many times over through central updates etc.
- Use of new AI techniques, such as virtual twins, pattern recognition, etc. - essential for the survival of the companies.
- The extreme performance of GPU processors depends on high data supply at low latency. Previous storage systems cannot achieve this. When investing in new storage technology for the AI sector, please make sure that only SSDs are used. In many cases, these will be NVMe SSDs that exchange data directly with the data storage, bypassing the slow PCIe bus. Network connections should preferably be connected via Infiniband (IB), because this combines highest transfer rates with lowest latency. This way you get the most out of your infrastructure. High performance and disk drives should go separate ways from now on.
- Cost savings by using the servers for computationally intensive tasks (rendering, AI) outside regular working hours. Internationally active companies could move their work from time zone to time zone and thus carry out developments around the clock, on one platform at low cost and be the first on the market with new products.
PURPLAN Success Story (Customer feedback)
Rainer Schittek, Head of IT und EAP of PurPlan
Hello, my name is Rainer Schittek, I am the IT and EAP manager at the company PurPlan and am responsible for company virtualization. The company Purplan is a medium-sized plant engineering company with focus on the chemical industry, especially in the field of polyurethane. This means that we plan and build plants. 80% of the turnover is achieved worldwide, 20% in the DACH area.
PurPlan had a relatively large and extensive planning and design department. Within the scope of an organizational and structural change, the construction department was decentralized and integrated into our project teams
outsourced.
As a result, there were significant changes and new requirements for the design department.
The most important requirements are:
- Mobile working (even with large amounts of data)
- Optimized license management, away from the rigid 1 to 1 allocation of license, workstation and user
- Reduction of the administrative effort for CAD software support
- Central data storage
A very obvious solution approach was desktop virtualization, which we already use in the ERP environment and which has proven itself very well. However, the classic desktop virtualization can be used to create the necessary data for the CAD area. Graphics services, do not provide.
An intensive search for providers produced the following result:
There are technical solutions and also corresponding service providers for virtualization but without the know-how in the CAD area. Potential suppliers always assured that it is no problem at all to meet our requirements
and that of course one will be happy to work with our CAD supervisor of man and machine, but none of the potential suppliers was able to provide references for a similar project.
A mandatory requirement for us was and is to receive the desired solution from one source, i.e. including the components hardware, virtualization software and CAD configuration. In this situation, man and machine offered themselves together with their partner sysGen to provide exactly this solution. Since we have been working very well with man and machine in the CAD area for more than 10 years, we decided to go this way.
After intensive discussions the following solution was accepted by all sides:
Step 1: Feasibility study (POC).
Step 2: with successful POC, contract award and realization
The POC phase allowed us to test the system in our environment and in addition we gained a lot of helpful information to create and purchase an optimal system for us. In doing so, we changed e.g. from the originally planned Dell machines to the Supermicro servers favoured by sysGen. Our approach also showed very clearly how closely the hardware/virtualization and CAD application components are interlinked and interact. Due to the very close cooperation of MuM and sysGen the usual problems and discussions between the component suppliers did not occur and instead of the usual back and forth play of responsibility for problems a very fast and effective final solution was found.
„It was already very demanding, but we quickly reached the point where we made real progress“ Rainer Schittek
Another positive aspect is that after the installation phase, during live operation, we still have a partner who supports us quickly and effectively with problems and optimisation.
„My summary: I must say that the function is good and we now have considerable advantages in terms of standardization“ Rainer Schittek
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