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

[Blank Field]

As i've said, AMD's SR-IOV is a direct competitor of NVidia Quadro series.
Few pages near, there's a page that declares the same features that Quadro
provides.
Strange that press-release says 'world's first'.
www.amd.com/en-us/solutions/professional/virtualization
On Sep 5, 2015 8:37 AM, "Blank Field" <ihatethisfield at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know about enterprise, but in my country SOHO solutions still use
> ADSL + RDP. And you say something about not seeing 100mbps.
> But in the end it doesn't even matter.
> I can't really predict how it will work in future, what i know for sure -
> i'll never touch anything related to that tech.
> On Sep 5, 2015 8:28 AM, "Jon Panozzo" <jonp at lime-technology.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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