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An Architectural Design Firms Journey ThroughVirtual GPU Technologyfor Global Collaboration
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What are we going to learn today?● Why CannonDesign decided to virtualize our infrastructure
● What struggles we encountered specific to the tools we use
● What are the various configurations of virtual desktops we used over the years, and what were their shortcomings
● How we measured performance of virtual desktops in order to develop our future infrastructure
● What the plan is for our new infrastructure which uses GRID 2.0 technology
● What are the benefits we expect from our new design
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I’m Jimmy RotellaI live at the Crossroads of Architecture & Technology
@jrotella [email protected]
Digital Practice DirectorCannonDesign
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an integrated global design firm that unites a dynamic team of strategists, futurists, researchers, architects, engineers, and
industry specialists
16offices
1000employees
#12Top Design Firm
Architect 50
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our JOURNEY through virtualization begins here.
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why virtualize?SecurityCost
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why virtualize?Security
● data tends to be more secure, as it all resides on virtual desktops however it’s only as secure as you make your environment
● gives you more control over setting permissions and restrictions, however some cultures and environments claim that hinders their work
● “all your eggs in one basket”
Cost● startup costs are high
● cost savings at the desktop level are typically redirected to servers, network, and storage
● some virtual desktop infrastructure setups allow for reduced license requirements and costs, but not all
● ROI takes longer than server virtualization project
robbing peter to pay paul
only as secure as your restrictions
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why did we virtualize?Collaboration
● SFMO (Single Firm Multi Office)
● Workstation access from anywhere
● greater flexibility and mobility for project teams
● ability to share and reallocate resources as users need them
Management
● easier workstation provisioning with standard desktop images (this ended up not being a benefit for us later)
● IT support does not need to happen at end user’s desktop location
● unified backup and recovery
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Management
● easier workstation provisioning with standard desktop images (this ended up not being a benefit for us later)
● IT support does not need to happen at end user’s desktop location
● unified backup and recovery
why did we virtualize?Collaboration
● SFMO (Single Firm Multi Office)
● Workstation access from anywhere
● greater flexibility and mobility for project teams
● ability to share and reallocate resources as users need them
only reap benefits if you are leveraging identical images
ALL HUGE BENEFITS FOR US
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16 offices worldwide all tied back into data centerglobally share projects and work on the same files
ability to invite outside consultants into our
network for collaboration
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What REVIT wants….
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What REVIT wants….
What WE want revit to do for US!
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How REVITworks.
bring the PEOPLE to the DATA
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REVIT + WAN =
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Virtual Desktop Design
Version 1 - Standard VDI
(2008)
● 2 vCPU @
● 140GB hard drive space
● 8GB RAM
● vSGA software graphics accelerations
Version 2 - GPU VDI
(2013)
● 2 vCPU @
● 150GB hard drive space
● 12GB RAM
● vSGA hardware graphics GPU acceleration
Version 3 - CHUM VDI
(2014)
● 2 vCPU @
● 180GB hard drive space
● 24GB RAM
● vDGA passthrough GPU graphics acceleration
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Why didn’t vSGA work for us?
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we needed more power.
racked workstations
● 2u servers
● 12 core xeon cpu
● dedicated graphics card
● PCoIP pass through graphics
● 1 user per system
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What we ended up withwas a very mixed environment.
{circa early 2015}
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How can you efficiently manage an environment like this?
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What is our bottleneck?
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Revit is capable of Multi-threading for about 12 processes
Revit is single threaded for most processes.
Memory
Processor
minimum
recommended
4gb
16gb
HIGHER CLOCK SPEED MORE CORES>
AMOUNT OF RAM REQUIRED TO OPEN YOUR MODEL
THE SIZE OF YOUR COMPACTED CENTRAL FILE
20x-40x
graphics
v11 for 2014+
hard drive
SSDrecommended
best performance
MINIMUM
COLLABORATION
5gb
30gb
CERTIFIED
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RFObenchmark
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Cinebench
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Holomark
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PCmark
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The “Taylor Swift” Test
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so how did we stack up?
Not where we want to
be.
What our users consider “good”.
Other physical machines.
(lower is better)
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it’s important to set your own baseline to define user experience.
This became our baseline for performance
FOR US OUR BASELINE WAS ALL ABOUT FEEL AND WE
FOUND RFOBENCHMARK HW ACCELERATION TESTS AND
CINEBENCH TESTS COMPARED WITH ACTUAL
END USERS DATA GAVE US OUR BASELINE
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(lower is better)
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worst case scenario.
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so what did we do?
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New HOTness.
Cisco UCS w/NVIDIA GRID 2.0
● Cisco B200 M4 Blade Servers
● Cisco 5100 Series Chassis w/ 8 servers per 6u rack space
● 1 Tesla M6 card per server
● 2x 2.6 GHz 14 core Xeon Processors per server
● 384GB RAM per server
● NetApp SSD storage array
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Virtual Desktop Profiles
Knowledge Workers
● 2 vCPU @ 2.6 GHz
● 256GB hard drive
● 8GB RAM
● 512mb vGPU
● 16 users per blade
Designers
● 8 vCPU @ 2.6 GHz
● 512GB hard drive
● 48GB RAM
● 1GB vGPU
● 8 users per blade
Renderers
● 12 vCPU @ 2.6GHz
● 512GB hard drive
● 48GB RAM
● 4GB vGPU
● 2 users per blade
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LOTS OFDATA AHEAD
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The ContendersStandard VDI
GPU VDI
Cloud 2.0
Dell GRID 1.0 Quad
Cisco GRID 2.0 Knowledge
Cisco GRID 2.0 Designer
Cisco GRID 2.0 Renderer
HP zBook 15 Studio
HP z640 Desktop Workstation
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$2,600 $4,800
$4,000
Knowledge $1,200 Designer $2,400Renderer $5,800
$5,900
Old VDIs20 users/server (4u rack space)
Dell Appliance for Wyse4 users/server (2u rack space)
Cloud 2.0 Racked Workstation1 users/server (2u rack space)
HP zBook Studio1 user/laptop (no rack space)
HP z6401 user/desktop (no rack space)
Cisco UCS blades2-16 users/blade (8 blades/ 6u rack space)
Cost Comparison /user
$1,000
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Cost Comparison /user
$2600 $4800
$4000 $5900
Old VDIs20 users/server (4u rack space)
Dell Appliance for Wyse4 users/server (2u rack space)
Cloud 2.0 Racked Workstation1 users/server (2u rack space)
HP zBook Studio1 user/laptop (no rack space)
HP z6401 user/desktop (no rack space)
Cisco UCS blades2-16 users/blade (8 blades/ 6u rack space)
$1000
Cheapest option is not good enough.
Lowest Price
Knowledge $1200 Designer $2400Renderer $5800
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Cost Comparison /user
$2600 $4800
$4000 $5900
Old VDIs20 users/server (2u rack space)
Dell Appliance for Wyse4 users/server (2u rack space)
Cloud 2.0 Racked Workstation1 users/server (2u rack space)
HP zBook Studio1 user/laptop (no rack space)
HP z6401 user/desktop (no rack space)
Cisco UCS blades2-16 users/blade (8 blades/ 6u rack space)
$1000
Highest price not necessarily highest performance and takes up significant rack space.
Highest Price
Knowledge $1200 Designer $2400Renderer $5800
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Cost Comparison /user
$2600 $4800
$4000 $5900
Old VDIs20 users/server (4u rack space)
Dell Appliance for Wyse4 users/server (2u rack space)
Cloud 2.0 Racked Workstation1 users/server (2u rack space)
HP zBook Studio1 user/laptop (no rack space)
HP z6401 user/desktop (no rack space)
Cisco UCS blades2-16 users/blade (8 blades/ 6u rack space)
$1000
Easy Setup & Collaboration
Knowledge $1200 Designer $2400Renderer $5800
Desktops and laptops = easy setup + low cost + no additional data center space, but won’t bring the level of collaboration available in a virtual environment
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Knowledge $1200 Designer $2400Renderer $5800
Cost Comparison /user
$2600 $4800
$4000 $5900
Old VDIs20 users/server (4u rack space)
Dell Appliance for Wyse4 users/server (2u rack space)
Cloud 2.0 Racked Workstation1 users/server (2u rack space)
HP zBook Studio1 user/laptop (no rack space)
HP z6401 user/desktop (no rack space)
Cisco UCS blades2-16 users/blade (8 blades/ 6u rack space)
$1000
CannonDesign values a high level of collaboration only made possible by a virtual environment.
Best Value for OUR Goals
A balance of collaboration, performance, flexibility and cost = value for us.
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REDUCTION INSERVER SPACE
85%
REDUCTION IN TIME PERFORMING REVIT TASKS
RWS users see a savings of 10 sec when Rotating, Orbiting, & Panning, Zooming, and 26 sec when creating models and exporting them.
VDI users see a savings of 310 sec when Rotating, Orbiting, & Panning, Zooming, and 86 sec when creating models and exporting them.
How do we expect to benefit from our new infrastructure?
Previous VDI users will see
savings of 13.5 hours per week using Revit, which equates
to approximately $2500 per week in billable hours