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HDX MediaStream Video and audio playback, any format, on any device
HDX RichGraphics 2D and 3D graphics incl. Adaptive Display, HDX 3D, HDX 3D Pro and RemoteFX
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• #1 in the VDI market with 10M+ licenses
• 100+ customers with over 10K seats • 300+ customers with 5,000+ licenses in production • 1,600+ customers with more than 1,000 licenses in production
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Turgi
Challenges Of course there were more than one…
3D CAD data is large

Transferring our largest assemblies took 2.5 hours!
ABB’s corporate network
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High Definition Experience
HDX Broadcast ICA and RDP protocol support for access from any device, anywhere
HDX Plug-n-Play Access to local resources and peripherals such as printers, monitors and USB devices
HDX SmartAccess Simplified secure access
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HDX Adaptive Orchestration Best user experience based on server, network connection and user device
Delivering 3D Professional Graphics from the Cloud
with Citrix XenDesktop
Derek Thorslund, Director of Product Management Citrix Systems
May 2012
Desktops & Apps as a Service
HDX RealTime Voice and video for real-time collaboration / unified communications
HDX WAN Optimization Performance and bandwidth optimizations via Citrix Branch Repeater
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Requirements from Business to IS
Extended Engineering Workbench in India
Global Change Mgmt Process Global Product Release Process Global Software Development and Engineering Tool Landscape
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Intellectual property: Do you recognize this car?
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HDX 3D Pro: Centralize anFra Baidu bibliotek secure design IP
All engineering data and intellectual property is centrally stored and secured: • Engineering drawings • Bills of Materials • Cost Info • Lifecycle Data
HDX 3D Pro Architecture
XenDesktop Controller
App Streaming User Profiles Citrix Receiver Access Gateway
Apps User Settings OS
Desktop Provisioning
Host Workstation (e.g. blade or rack) 1 GPU per user
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XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro
• XenDesktop feature for high-end 3D professional graphics • GPU acceleration for hardware rendering of large 3D models
Global Product Development Process
Global Development Global Engineering Global Production
Global Document Mgmt
Engineers in India need to be able to work as if they were sitting in Switzerland
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90%
100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0%
Latency [ms]
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System Quality [%]
(these results without Branch Repeater)
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Manuel Killer, Project Manager CAx Technologies
ABB Switzerland Ltd – Power Electronics & MV Drives
Case study and customer reference Global CAD accesss with HDX 3D Pro
3D graphics acceleration options from Citrix
Rendering performance
1 GPU/user, DX & OpenGL
High-end 3D professional graphics 3D business graphics
XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro
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GPU-accelerated graphics: XenApp or XenDesktop?
XenApp HDX 3D • GPU acceleration of DirectX
(OpenGL is CPU-rendered)
XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro
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HDX 3D Pro case study
Major European heavy vehicle manufacturer
• Access from Japan, Australia, India, U.S. and Brazil to CATIA apps hosted in Sweden • At 220ms roundtrip latency, good performance working on models with 1500+ parts; bandwidth usage rarely reaches 2.5 Mbps
Examples of applications tested with HDX 3D Pro:
CAD GIS CATIA V5R19 Google Earth Autodesk Inventor 2010 ISRO – Bhuvan Autodesk Revit 2010 ArcGIS Explorer Autodesk MAYA 2010 Medical AutoCAD 2010 Fiat Lux Bentley Test Applications 3D XML Player NEHE Apps for OpenGL JT2Go DirectX SDK SolidWorks CUDA SDK Blender GLView FurnPlan Office Apps and Win 7 Gadgets Adobe 3D Multimedia HD Videos in YouTube Windows Media Player VLC Media Player etc. Benchmark and Demo Realtime HDR Turbine Demo SpecViewPerf CineBench WPF Applications Mix Me Photo Shuru Visual 3D
Universal client High-Definition User Experience Enterprise app store Flexible Desktop and App delivery
Citrix Receiver
Citrix CloudGateway
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• Multiple compression options including deep compression codec for access over WAN links
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XenDesktop: Powerful and flexible infrastructure

Latency Bandwidth
Like one team
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Implementation at ABB Citrix XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro
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Learnings
Service quality is a subjective matter
Latency effect
(subjective scores)
350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0
Using Dassault SolidWorks, 5-6 hours per day Designers can work from India as if in Switzerland!
• GPU acceleration of DirectX and OpenGL • One user per GPU • Deep compression • 3D SpaceMouse support
• Each GPU can be shared by multiple users • Apps must be compatible with RDS (Terminal Services)
Shared GPUs, DX only
XenDesktop w/ RemoteFX
est. 7-10 Mbps
XenApp HDX 3D h/w acceleration for DirectX
~3 Mbps
~1.5 Mbps
Bandwidth efficiency
at 1024 x 768
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HDX 3D Pro: Leverage worldwide talent pool
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HDX 3D Pro: Work-from-home & Disaster Recovery
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HDX 3D Pro is not application-dependent