[vfio-users] FYI: SR-IOV GPU from AMD

[Jon Panozzo]

Pretty much what I figured.  I still don't think 3D graphics over a
remote connection is a good experience for the user, even with
protocols like HDX (formally Citrix ICA).  Having sold Citrix
solutions for many years, I can tell you that was always one aspect
that just never really delivered on the promise.

Also, we're not in the 100mbps LAN era anymore (it's 1gbps now).  I
haven't seen a 100mbps switch in ages.  That said, while VNC can be
pretty awful, there are plenty of other solutions that handle remote
graphics on a LAN connection pretty well (just look at Steam In Home
Streaming).  And I'm curious on how things continue to progress on the
SPICE front.  Seems like Redhat is starting to align SPICE + VirtIO.
Curious is the QXL driver project is going to be deprecated in favor
of virtio-gpu too...

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Blank Field <ihatethisfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes. Most of these devices and technologies are primarily aimed to work with
> stuff like Citrix XenApp and other software providing VDI.
> VDI is providing desktop workplaces to thin clients with power of that
> multiuser GPU.
> You can't just glue VNC to what we have now since 100mbps lan provides not
> enough bandwidth. Commercial software uses compression and translation
> (capturing render queries, not just frame buffer) to work around that. Also,
> as AW pointed out back in the day, instead of running some nuclear-reactor
> like server with tens of GPUs - we have it single or double slot packed.
>
> On Sep 5, 2015 8:12 AM, "Jon Panozzo" <jonp at lime-technology.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ok, so an SR-IOV GPU from AMD sounds like just a competing product to
>> NVIDIA Quadro, right?  So a business-class / data-center use-case, not
>> for general consumer use probably.  Just clarifying...
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 12:29 AM, Andre Richter
>> <andre.o.richter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/amd-unveils-worlds-2015aug31.aspx
>> >
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