Traditionally, presenting 3D graphics over a display protocol such as ICA or RDP has been a challenge. There are some protocols (ICE, PC-over-IP, ICA) that do quite a good job of this over the LAN where bandwidth is plentiful, but WAN is still an issue… until now. Citrix just announced HDX 3D for XenDesktop. HDX (High Definition Extensions) 3D uses the power of a graphics card on the host to render 3D processing and optimize/deliver the results to the client. There are some “gotchas” to this architecture like the host machine has to physical hardware (no VMs), and the host machine also needs CUDA-enabled Nvidia GPU. However, this technology is included free in XenDesktop (Advanced and above).

Check out the HDX 3D website here for more information and demonstrations…

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