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ADVANCED GRAPHICS VIRTUALIZATION
GAMECHANGER
RETHINKING HOW TECHNOLOGY IS USED IN EDUCATION
LEARN ANYWHERE AND ANYTIME
Pairing VDI with graphics acceleration extends the border of engineering labs.
VIRTUALIZATION IS CHANGING the face of higher education, especially for schools delivering high-end graph- ic-intensive courseware and applications. As students in- creasingly expect to run apps anytime and anywhere, and the complexity of applications increases, graphics-accelerated virtual desktop interfaces (VDI) can provide a solution.
“We call it borderless learning,” says Ismet Nesicolaci, business development manager of higher education at NVIDIA, a company that has long been well-known for its graphics technologies. NVIDIA virtual GPU solution, which is composed of NVIDIA® Tesla® GPUs and the NVIDIA Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation (Quadro vDWS) for Education Software, is transforming teaching by letting students access course content anywhere and on any device.
That has been a game-changer for UMass Lowell, a national research university in Massachusetts that’s keeping up with explosive growth through virtual labs. The vLabs use graphics virtualization software to augment the VDI already in use. That untethers students and lets
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