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vGPU ensured that users didn’t take a performance hit; the virtualization software absorbed the extra burden.
Use Cases in Action
While the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine offers one dramatic case for the value of NVIDIA vGPU, it’s not the only success story.
The University of Maryland’s Terrapin Works adopted NVIDIA vGPU for its digital manufacturing lab, a space available for students, staff and industry — companies that were university partners. In this scenario, the virtualized environment enhanced with NVIDIA vGPU made it possible for team members to collaborate no matter where they were located.
Georgia Tech has leveraged NVIDIA vGPU offerings
on Amazon Web Services, as part of an engineering school program for training robots. Anytime there’s a requirement to run an application that needs the power of an NVIDIA GPU, users can head to AWS, where it’s ready and waiting for them.
The University of Arkansas decided to centralize desktop services for its many colleges. IT built a VDI infrastructure as
a service available across the entire institution, allowing any student at any of the colleges to access applications and bring
up a desktop to run whatever work was required. While this was a big payoff for students, the deployment also offered a major advantage to the IT staff too. Each of those colleges
has its own smaller IT group that was spending a significant amount of time managing endpoints, whether they were a desktop, laptop or lab. Reducing the maintenance work freed up time and resources for the IT groups to engage in the higher value projects for their organizations. And by streamlining maintenance through a virtualized environment, IT delivered better service to faculty and staff across campus. Members of IT no longer had to return to their own desktops to get the job done; they could access their tools from anywhere.
The Power of Graphics Virtualization
While plenty of schools already have NVIDIA GPUs for graphics processing, not all are exploiting the power of the virtual GPU. What many are finding is that NVIDIA vGPU solutions are revolutionizing the way universities and colleges help students learn and work in a remote world.
Ismet Nesicolaci is the senior product sales specialist for NVIDIA Virtual GPU, with specialization in higher education.
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