Posts Categorized: Citrix XenApp testing

Citrix Project Results

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAsc4CAglo   So, not necessarily the results I was looking for, but definitely a chance to learn a bunch. If you try something like this in your environment be sure to drop me a line and let me know how it goes. —————————————– Links —————————————– Citrix Pass-through and OpenGL: http://dwhynes.com/citrix-gpu-pass-through-and-opengl Tweaking Graphics: http://dwhynes.com/tweak-the-graphics Mini-tests failing:… Read more »

GPU Pass-through Mini-tests

http://youtu.be/zlwOAfQpNTo The above video shows all the mini stress tests I ran on the Citrix Xen App server failing at one point or another.

Tweak the graphics

During the latter part of the GPU pass-through project I began grasping at straws to try and tweak the system into better performance. In that search, I came across two items of note:   1. An old project from the late 90’s called GLDirect: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gldirect/ The idea was simple (kinda): convert the OpenGL calls to… Read more »

Citrix GPU Pass-through and OpenGL

Outside of the GPU pass-through video project I’ve made, I began working with XenApp 6.5 back when it was still in beta. It’s been almost 2 years now, but I still remember the initial setup and testing of the HDX capabilities. I’ll admit I should have taken more time to look behind the curtains and… Read more »

Nvidia Quadro K5000 does not support GPU pass-through

  BREAKING NEWS After a burst of e-mails with engineers from Nvidia, I’ve been informed that the flagship GPU of their new Kepler based cards, the Quadro K5000, is NOT supported for GPU pass-through. Without the GPU pass-through, the specific recipe of software I’m using for my cloud test isn’t going to be possible. Luckily after we were all… Read more »