Table of Contents
Why Supermicro Ultra System for VDI
2 Introduction
Key Benefits of a High Graphics
Performance VDI
3 High Graphics Performance VDI Solutions
High Graphics Performance VDI UseCases
GPU Options For High Graphic
Performance VDI
NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software*White Paper

High Performance GPU Accelerated
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Solutions with Supermicro Ultra
SuperServers

Configure Your Supermicro Ultra High
Performance VDI
6 Supermicro 1U and 2U Systems + NVIDIA
GPUs
Ultra 1U 1029U VDI with High Graphic
Performance
Ultra 2U 2029U VDI with High Graphic
Performance
Ultra 2U 2029U All-Flash NVMe with 2x
NVIDIA® Tesla® GPUs VDI
9 SummarySuper Micro Computer, Inc.
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San Jose, CA 95131 USA
www.supermicro.com- March 2019

Introduction
VDI has become increasingly popular with the broadened availability of mobile
broadband, higher bandwidth, more compute power in modern mobile devices, higher
display resolutions and a trend of BYOD within enterprises.

Why Supermicro Ultra System forVDI
Supermicro Ultra rackmount servers
are engineered to offer unrivaled
performance, flexibility, scalability andserviceability and therefore ideallysuited to CPU and memory intensiveworkloads.
Ultra systems feature dual sockets,24 DIMM slots, and support highperformance GPUs with up to 32GB
video memory. The 1U systems cansupport up to 10 hot-swap 2.5" drivebays, while the 2U systems can support
up to 24 drives to accommodate a wide
range of application requirements.

Supermicro has developed a line of fully validated server solutions featuring highperformance GPUs from NVIDIA, along with NVIDIA virtual GPU (vGPU) software, to address
the rapidly growing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) market. These solutions include aSupermicro Ultra, FatTwin™ and 4U Tower SuperServers configured with dual Intel® Xeon®
CPUs, up to 3TB DDR4 memory and NVIDIA® vGPU software with Tesla® GPUs based on theNVIDIA® Volta, Pascal™, or Maxwell™ architectures that deliver best-in-class vGPU softwarewith virtual desktop experience to users anytime and anywhere.
NVIDIA vGPU technology brings the power of NVIDIA® GPUs to virtual machines with
an immersive user experience for anyone, from knowledge workers to engineers anddesigners. NVIDIA® vGPU technology meets the increasing performance demands ofmodern apps and Windows 10, bringing graphics and compute acceleration to the datacenter, enabling IT to centralize apps and data, and deliver virtual desktops that offer
improved management security and productivity.
Businesses can now deliver cost‐effective high graphics performance with greater
scalability, and transform traditional workflows and liberating users from the confines ofConfidential: NDA Required
PC’s and offices, to enable real‐time collaboration from anywhere, anytime, on any device.

vGPU Virtualization Layer

Supermicro Ultra systems feature best
cooling design for up to 165W CPU TDP
with 56 cores/112 threads when GPU
is installed, which can support up to112 virtual machines with a 1:1 vCPU tophysical thread ratio.

Virtual PC

Virtual PC

Virtual PC

VirtualWorkstation

VirtualWorkstation

VirtualWorkstation

NVIDIA
Graphics Driver

NVIDIA
Graphics Driver

NVIDIA
Graphics Driver

NVIDIA
Quadro Driver

NVIDIA
Quadro Driver

NVIDIA
Quadro Driver

vGPU

vGPU

vGPU

vGPU

vGPU

vGPU

Hypervisor

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software

Supermicro Ultra Server
NVMe

NVMe

NVMe

NVMe

NVMe

NVMe

NVMe

NVMe

NVMe

NVMe

Certified Hypervisors:2••

VMware ESXi 5.5 U2 or newer••Citrix XenServer 6.2 or newer

High Performance GPU Accelerated Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Solutions with Supermicro Ultra SuperServers

NVIDIA® Tesla® GPUHigh Performance GPU Accelerated Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure Solutions with Supermicro Ultra SuperServers

Key Benefits of a High Graphics Performance VDI••Simplified Deployment
Allocate GPU resources precisely during the assessment and proof-of-concept phaseand ensure an optimized user experience from day one.

••Multiple Monitor
Support multiple displays for up to four 4K monitors* per virtual machine, improving
productivity and user experience.

••Native Performance Experience
With NVIDIA® vGPU software and Tesla® GPUs, virtual desktops can perform likenative PCs to every user.

••Linux OS Applications
Deliver like-native performance of virtual desktops to software developers and EDA
designers that rely on a Linux-based development environment.

••Optimized for Microsoft Windows 10
Windows 10 is Microsoft’s most graphically intensive operating system to date, with
common productivity applications like Office 365, Skype and YouTube requiring GPU
acceleration to function properly, so many general purpose VDI users require a GPU
for better user experiences.

High Graphics Performance VDI Solutions
High Graphics Performance VDI Use Cases
Target Market

Use Cases

Common Applications

Healthcare

For remotely viewing and editing
very large and complex medicalimages (PACS)•• EMR , PACS, Eclipse Medical Imaging•• General purpose VDI with multi-monitor support and Windows 10.

Manufacturing

For remotely viewing and editing
very large 3D models and images•• PTC Creo, Siemens PLM NX, Autodesk AutoCAD, Dassault Systèmes
SOLIDWORKS and CATIA, ANSYS Discovery Live and Fluent.
•• General-purpose VDI using virtualized design and creative apps such as
Adobe Creative Suite•• Linux-based EDA developer apps such as Cadence and Synopsis

Government

For remotely viewing, analyzing,and editing very large 3D modelsand images•• ESRI ArcGIS, Autodesk AutoCAD, ANSYS Discovery Live and Fluent, Adobe
Creative Cloud, MATLAB.
•• General-purpose VDI and common office productivity apps.

FinanceAEC

For running network heavy apps
(Bloomberg, Reuters, Eikon) on
multi-monitors.
For remotely viewing and editing
very large 3D project files andimages*•• Bloomberg, Reuters, and other electronic trading platforms.
•• Many financial services firms have propriety applications that they are
gradually updating to support Windows 10.
•• Autodesk 3ds Max, AutoCAD and Revit, Ansys Fluent, Adobe CreativeSuite, Bentley MicroStation, AECOsim, Nemetschek Vectorworks, Allplan,Trimble SketchUp, GRAPHISOFT ARCHICAD, Newforma Project Center.

NVIDIA GRID vPC software supports up to two 4K displays or four QHD displays. NVIDIA Quadro Virtual Data
Center Workstation software supports up to four 4K displays.

White Paper - March 20193

GPU Options For High Graphic Performance VDI
NVIDIA® vGPU software brings graphics and virtualization capabilities to NVIDIA® Tesla®
data-center deployments, and is currently supported on the following Tesla® GPUs.

Supported Tesla®
GPUM10T4V100

RecommendvGPU S/WGRID® vPCQuadro vDWSQuadro® vDWSGPU

4 Maxwell GPUs

1 NVIDIA Turing GPU

1 Volta GPU

CUDA Cores

2,560(640 per GPU)

2,560

5,120

Memory Size

32 GB GDDR5(8 GB per GPU)

16 GB GDDR616 GB HBM2
32 GB HBM2

Use Case

Knowledge workers
using modern
productivity apps
and Windows 10
requiring maximum
user density and best
TCO

Entry-level to highend 3D design andengineering workflows with QuadrovDWS

Ultra-high-end rendering, simulation,
3D design

Hardware Resource Requirements••CPU••

Recommend more CPU cores for higher VM scalability for Knowledge worker••

Recommend higher clock CPU for high performance professional application••High Memory Speed and Capacity to provide VM••••High speed storage to provide high speed throughput and IO••••

Large video, rendering files read/write needs high speed throughput and IO drives.
High speed network interface to provide systems connections••••

At least 10GbE is require. VMware’s VM provide 10GbE VM connections.
High Performance GPU with virtualization and direct share capability••

4Graphic Application needs lots of memory.

Also need higher capacity of GPU memory to provide larger quantity of VM.

High Performance GPU Accelerated Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Solutions with Supermicro Ultra SuperServers

High Performance GPU Accelerated Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure Solutions with Supermicro Ultra SuperServers

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software*
NVIDIA vGPU software is available in three editions: NVIDIA GRID® Virtual PC (GRID vPC),
GRID Virtual Applications (GRID vApp), and NVIDIA Quadro® Virtual Data Center Workstation(Quadro vDWS). The table below shows some feature comparisons.

vGPU SW Editions

Workstations

Desktops

Applications

Quadro vDWSGRID vPC

GRID vApps

Engineers/Architects/Designers
Use CaseKnowledge/Business Worker

For professional graphics applications mainstream and high-enddesigners.

For virtual desktops delivering
standard PC applications, browser, and high definition video.

Desktop Virtualization

Yes

Yes

RDSH App Hosting

Yes

Yes

Yes

RDSH Desktop Hosting3

Yes

Yes

Yes

Windows Guest OSYes

Yes

Yes

Linux Guest OS1

Yes

Yes

Maximum Displays

4

Four QHD, Two 4K1

12Maximum Resolution

4096x2160 (4K)

4096x2160 (4K)

1280x1024

Data Sheet

Quadro vDWS Brief

GRID vPC Brief

GRID vApps Brief

31Use with Citrix XenApp or other
RDSH solutions like VMware
Horizon Apps.

Support starting with NVIDIA virtual GPU software Spring 2018 release (version 6.0)

2

GRID vApps supports one 1280x1024 display from the GPU card. However, XenApp renders to an offscreen buffer,
so it can support multiple software-rendered displays at higher resolutions.

3

With packaged GRID vApps license*Please review the NVIDIA Virtual GPU Packaging, Pricing and Licensing.

Configure Your Supermicro Ultra High Performance VDI
NVIDIA vGPU SW

Customer NeedSystemCPU

NVIDIA GPU

Standard VDI:
For Knowledge worker using common officeproductivity apps and Windows 10.

Ultra 1U 1029U/6019U
With up to 24x DIMM
And up to 10x Storages

2x up to 28C/56T
CPUs

1x NVIDIA Tesla M10
32 Users1 with 1B Profile

32 GRID vPC Licenses

Advanced VDI:
For general purpose VDI with multi monitor support
on Windows 10 and engineers who work in 2D designworkload.

Ultra 2U 2029U/6029U
With up to 24x DIMM
And up to 24x Storages

2x up to 28C/56T
CPUs

2x NVIDIA Tesla M10
32 Users1 with 2B Profile2
2 x 4k or 4 x HD displays2

32 GRID vPC Licenses

Entry-Mid End VDI :For Engineers, designers, CAD/CAE users for remotely
viewing and editing very large 3D models and images.

Ultra 2U 2029U/6029U
With up to 24x DIMM
And up to 24x Storages

2x up to 3.5GHz
CPUs

4x NVIDIA Tesla T4
32 ~ 16 users1 with 2Q ~4Q profile

32 ~ 16 Quadro vDWS
LicensesHigh End VDI:
For Architects, Engineers, and Designers for high-end
rendering, 3Ddesign and engineering workflows.

Ultra 2U 2029U/6029U
With up to 24x DIMM
And up to 24x Storages

2x up to 3.5GHz
CPUs

2x NVIDIA Tesla V100
8 ~ 4 Users1 with 8Q ~ 16Q
Profile8 ~ 4 Quadro vDWSLicenses

1

Number of users are varies depending on the application and customer workload.

2Support starting with NVIDIA virtual GPU software Spring 2018 release (version 6.0)

White Paper - March 20195Supermicro 1U and 2U Systems + NVIDIA GPUs
Standard VDI

Ultra 1U 1029U VDI with High Graphic Performance

Install 1x Tesla® M10

32 Users with 1B Profile

Entry-Mid End VDI

Dual-socket support up to 52 cores / 112 threads

Install 2x Tesla® T4

Technical Specifications

8 ~ 4 Users with 2Q ~ 4Q Profile

Processor Support•• Dual Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors•• Up to 165W CPU TDP with one or more GPUs

Memory Capacity•• 24 DIMM slots, up to 6TB DDR4-2933 ECC RDIMM/LRDIMM

PCI-E Expansion Slots•• 2 PCI-E Gen 3.0 x16 (2 full height 10.5” length)•• 2 PCI-E Gen 3.0 x8 (1 low profile, 1 internal low profile)

Networking•• -TR4: 4x 1GbE ports•• -TR4T: 4x 10Gbase-T ports•• -TRT: 2x 10Gbase-T ports•• -TRTP: 2x 10G SFP+ ports•• -TRTP2: 2x 1GbE and 2x 10G SFP+ ports•• -TR25M: 2x 25GbE ports

Drive Bays•• 10 hot-swap 2.5” drives bays (Default 10 SATA3 ports)•• Optional 2 NVMe/SATA3 Hybrid ports•• Optional 8 SAS3 ports support via Add-on Card

Power Supply•• Redundant 750W Platinum Level digital power supplies

High End VDI
Install 1x Tesla® V100

4 Users with 8Q Profile- The number of users supported varies depending on specific applications and workloads.
- Q-series virtual GPU types require a Quadro vDWS license.
- B-series virtual GPU types require a GRID Virtual PC license.
- For more information about NVIDIA vGPU technology, see https://docs.nvidia.com/grid/latest/grid-vgpu-userguide/index.html

6High Performance GPU Accelerated Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Solutions with Supermicro Ultra SuperServers

High Performance GPU Accelerated Virtual DesktopInfrastructure Solutions with Supermicro Ultra SuperServers

Ultra 2U 2029U VDI with High Graphic PerformanceStandard VDI
Install 2x Tesla® M1032 Users with 2TB Profile

Entry-Mid End VDI
Dual-socket support up to 52 cores / 112 threads
Install 4x Tesla® T4

Technical Specifications

32 ~ 16 Users with 2Q ~ 4Q Profile

High End VDI

Processor Support•• Dual Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors•• Up to 165W CPU TDP with one or more GPUs

Memory Capacity•• 24 DIMM slots, up to 6TB DDR4-2933 ECC RDIMM/LRDIMM

PCI-E Expansion Slots•• 8 PCI-E: 1 PCI-E 3.0 x16 (FH 10.5” L), 7 PCI-E 3.0 x8 (5 FH 10.5”L, 1LP, 1 LP Internal)•• -TR4T: 7 PCI-E: 2 PCI-E 3.0 x16 (FH 10.5” L), 5 PCI-E 3.0 x8 (4 FH10.5”L, 1 LP)

Networking•• -TR4: 4x 1GbE ports•• -TR4T: 4x 10Gbase-T ports•• -TRT: 2x 10Gbase-T ports•• -TRTP: 2x 10G SFP+ ports•• -TR25M: 2x 25GbE ports

Drive Bays•• 24 hot-swap 2.5” drives bays (default 14 SATA3 ports)•• Optional 24 SAS3 ports support via Add-on Card(s)•• Optional 4 NVMe ports (2 NVMe from CPU1 + 2 NVMe from CPU2)•• Optional 2 rear hot-swap 2.5” drive bay kit

Power Supply•• Redundant 1000W Titanium Level digital power supplies

Install 2x Tesla® V100

8 ~ 4 Users with 8Q ~ 16Q Profile- The number of users supported varies depending on specific applications and workloads.
- Q-series virtual GPU types require a Quadro vDWS license.
- B-series virtual GPU types require a GRID Virtual PC license.
- For more information about NVIDIA vGPU technology, see https://docs.nvidia.com/grid/latest/grid-vgpu-userguide/index.html

White Paper - March 20197

Standard VDI

Ultra 2U 2029U All-Flash NVMe with 2x NVIDIA® Tesla® GPUs VDI

Install 2x Tesla® M1064 Users with 1B Profile

Entry-Mid End VDI
Install 4x Tesla® T4
Dual-socket support up to 52 cores / 112 threads
Up to 24 hot-swap U.2 NVMe drives for I/O intensive applications

Technical Specifications
32 ~ 16 Users with 2Q ~ 4Q Profile

High End VDI
Install 2x Tesla® V100

Processor Support•• Dual Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors•• Up to 165W CPU TDP with one or more GPUs

Memory Capacity•• 24 DIMM slots, up to 6TB DDR4-2933 ECC RDIMM/LRDIMM

PCI-E Expansion Slots•• 2 PCI-E Gen 3.0 x16 (1 full height 10.5” length)•• 1 PCI-E Gen 3.0 x8 (low profile)

Networking•• 4x 10GBase-T Ethernet ports

Drive Bays•• 24 hot-swap 2.5” drives bays•• 12 NVMe ports (NVMe from CPU1)•• 8 NVMe ports + 4 NVMe/SATA3 Hybrid ports (NVMe from CPU2)•• 2 rear 2.5” hot-swap bays (default 2 SATA3 ports)

Power Supply•• Redundant 1600W Titanium Level digital power supplies- The number of users supported varies depending on specific applications and workloads.

8 ~ 4 Users with 8Q ~ 16Q Profile- Q-series virtual GPU types require a Quadro vDWS license.
- B-series virtual GPU types require a GRID Virtual PC license.
- For more information about NVIDIA vGPU technology, see https://docs.nvidia.com/grid/latest/grid-vgpu-userguide/index.html

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High Performance GPU Accelerated Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure Solutions with Supermicro Ultra SuperServers

Summary
VDI has become increasingly popular with the broadened availability of mobile
broadband, higher bandwidth, more compute power in modern mobile devices, higher
display resolutions and a trend of BYOD within enterprises.
Supermicro is leading the industry on VDI and focus on this area to provide the bestsolution for VDI infrastructure.
Supermicro, together with NVIDIA, has developed a line of fully configured GPU server
solutions to address the rapidly growing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) market.

Supermicro and NVIDIA Virtual GPU Web ResourcesSupermicro GPU Qualified Platform Matrix
Supermicro + NVIDIA vGPU Solution
NVIDIA vGPU Evaluation license for up to 90 days
NVIDIA vGPU Website
NVIDIA vGPU TCO Calculator

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