NVIDIA Unveils Industry’s First Cloud-Based GPU.

NVIDIA VGX K2, A cloud that Enables Designers, Engineers to Work Anywhere, on Any Device While Accessing the Performance of a Workstation !

Engineers and design professionals will be able to work anywhere on virtually any device and still have access to the computing and graphics performance of a GPU-powered workstation, with the launch of the cloud-based NVIDIA® VGX™ K2 GPU.

Built on the NVIDIA Kepler™ architecture, adds unprecedented workstation capabilities to the NVIDIA VGX platform.

The NVIDIA VGX platform utilizes GPUs to allow enterprises to efficiently deliver visualized workstation performance and capabilities – including rich multimedia and 3D graphics – to users on smartphones, tablets or PCs. Its VGX K2 board, which includes two workstation-class GPUs, enables enterprises to increase user density without sacrificing performance or application compatibility. 

Key benefits of NVIDIA VGX K2 include:

• Faster interactivity: With 4 GB of graphics memory per GPU, VGX K2 which ensures that graphics-intensive design and content-creation applications run with ease.
• Low-latency remote display: Patent-pending remote display technology minimizes the lag traditionally associated with virtual desktop computing.
• Data center power efficiency: Using SMX, a revolutionary streaming multiprocessor, VGX K2 provides unsurpassed performance per watt for enterprise data centers.

The NVIDIA VGX K2 platform for virtual workstations is expected to be available from leading server OEMs starting in early 2013.

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