Nvidia revealed a new member of its GRID enterprise GPU lineup. The company said the Tesla M10 offers the highest user density in the industry, allowing enterprises an affordable avenue into desktop virtualization.
The M10 features four mid-level Maxwell GPUs with 640 Cuda cores each (2,560 total), and the card is equipped with 32 GB of GDDR5 memory (8 GB per GPU). Nvidia said that you can install two M10 cards into the same server, which would provide up to 128 concurrent sessions. The card is designed to occupy two slots of a rack mount case. Each M10 draws 225W and features passive cooling.
The Tesla GPUs pair with Nvidia’s Grid software. Grid is available in three flavors: Nvidia Virtual Application (vApps), which is used to host accelerated virtual office applications, such as Microsoft Outlook and Word or Adobe Reader; Nvidia Virtual PC (vPC), which can host fully functional virtual PCs running Windows 7, 8 or 10, along with their respective applications; and Nvidia Virtual Workstation (vWS), which provides all the power of a workstation from within the data center, making it possible to access professional graphics applications remotely.
Nvidia said that Grid is “supported by every enterprise OEM” and is “fully compatibility with every PC application.”
Nvidia didn’t give an exact price for the Tesla M10 card, but we did get a ballpark figure of $2,500 per unit. The Grid software is an additional charge. Nvidia said that hosted applications can be less than $2 per month, per user, and virtual desktops cost less than $6 per month, per user. Nvidia said that licenses are available as an annual subscription, which can be paid up to three years in advance. The company also offers a perpetual licensing model.
Nvidia said that the latest Grid software is available today. Tesla M10 hardware will be available in August.
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