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NICE is pleased to announce its participation and sponsorship of two important events: the Tenth HealthGrid Conference and the Fourth International Workshop on Science Gateways for LifeSciences (IWSG-Life).
During demonstration session, we will be showcasing the Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) technology, our 3D remote visualization solution enabling users to connect to OpenGL applications running in remote data centers. Life Sciences case studies will be presented to demonstrate the benefits of DCV in biomedicine (http://amsterdam2012.healthgrid.org/content/accepted-demos).
Our contribution will be published in PubMed-referenced proceedings in the IOS Press book series.
Stop by the NICE booth at the Academic Medical Center of University of Amsterdam . We will be pleased to give you more information about Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) and its new features!
Thanks to its partnership with Ansys, NICE will have a Webcast inside the "IT Solutions for ANSYS Webcast Series 2012"
During the webcast, Andrea Rodolico (NICE CTO), will talk about:
Centralized deployment of the IT infrastructure used for simulation has many potential benefits, including the ability to scale up high-performance computing resources, centrally manage the IP associated with simulation data and increase operational efficiency. This webcast will explore the solution architecture for collaboration hubs consisting of centrally deployed computational power and data storage, and effective remote/mobile access. Moving beyond simple “remote batch” job submission, we’ll examine an optimized IT environment in which globally distributed or mobile end users can work interactively and perform visualization on a centralized infrastructure,to avoid the network bottlenecks and data integrity issues associated with moving files between local user machines and central/cloud resources.
May 15 at 9:00 AM US EDT register May 17 at 4:00 PM US EDT register
This year, for the first time, NICE will have a booth at Eurographics 2012, the 33 annual conference of the european association for computer graphics, from May 13-18.
During the conference, on Thursday May 17th 16:00-17:00 in Room B, Andrea Rodolico (NICE CTO), will have an industrial talk about:
Visualization of large volumes of data, stored or generated in remote data centers or cloud infrastructures, is an increasingly common requirement. Moving this data to the workstation is unpractical and time consuming and implies security risks and management headaches. In the last years IT departments took advantage of virtualization and remote access to overcome these problems, but such technologies are not broadly applied to 3D applications because the GPU cannot be effectively virtualized and accessed remotely with the proper performance. NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) addresses these limitations leveraging the power of server-side GPUs, and delivering the hardware-accelerated 3D graphics over a standard TCP/IP network using dynamically adjustable image quality to allow users to experience fluid 3D interaction over LAN, WiFi and WAN, from standard PCs or mobile devices. The combination of virtualization and remote access allows off-the-shelf 3D applications to be consolidated in a Public or Private "3D Cloud", rendering the most complex models and effects with negligible overhead compared to native GPU performance, while leveraging the high speed network of the datacenter to work faster, leaving the data where it's best managed and performing.
Rich Brueckner of InsideHPC interviews NICE CTO Andrea Rodolico at Moab.con 2012 about remote visualization with NICE DCV.
For the first time NICE is pleased to participate in the COE 2012 Annual PLM Conference & TechniFair.
During the conference, Andrea Rodolico (NICE CTO) and Keith Horton (NORDAM Group), will talk about:
Running CATIA Remotely in Your Own "3D Cloud"
Rapid obsolescence, heat, noise, replacement cycles, software stack updates, PDM access speed are just some of the issues of current workstation-based CAD users face. In other IT domains, virtualization and remote access today address most of these issues, but it is not broadly applied to 3D CAD because the GPU cannot be virtualized and shared among users.
NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) 2012 address this limitation by allowing multiple VMs, running different flavors of Windows Operating Systems, to share one or more GPUs and run fully accelerated in a right-sized "virtual workstation".
NICE DCV was born as a remote display tool specifically focused on 3D applications, using dynamically adjustable image quality to allow users to experience fluid 3D interaction over LAN, WiFi and WAN, from standard PCs or mobile devices.
The combination of Virtualization and remote access allows off-the-shelf 3D applications, including Catia, to be consolidated in a datacenter, rendering the most complex models and effects with negligible overhead compared to native GPU performance, and leveraging the high speed network of the datacenter to work faster.
NICE is pleased to announce the release of NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV) version 2012.1 NICE DCV provides efficient remote access to graphic-intensive, professional 3D applications running on Linux and Windows desktop environments. "This new release includes an exciting number of new features focusing on usability, performance and security. This version represents a very important step forward for our product, we are very proud of it" - said Beppe Ugolotti, CEO of NICE. New features of NICE DCV 2012.1 include:
With this new release, NICE further extends its lead in the remote visualization market. Leveraging its unique technology, NICE DCV is the first product on the market to allow the sharing of physical GPUs between multiple VMs (running Microsoft Windows) while maintaining full OpenGL acceleration and workstation-class performance.<
“DCV is the only remote visualization product supporting GPU sharing on both Linux and Microsoft Windows, allowing a better utilization of available hardware resources.” - said Paolo Maggi, NICE R&D Manager. When coupled with NICE EnginFrame, NICE DCV provides a first-in-class VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) solution specifically designed and optimized for technical computing users (CAE, CAD, Oil&Gas, Scientific Visualization, etc.). Customers with current support and maintenance coverage are eligible for a free upgrade.
For further information and release notes please visit:
NICE delivers comprehensive Grid & Technical Computing Cloud Products and Solutions. NICE product portfolio boosts productivity of Private and Public Clouds by increasing usability and user-friendliness, without sacrificing flexibility and control. NICE global customers include leading companies in Automotive, Aerospace, Industry Manufacturing, Oil&Gas, Life Science, Universities and Scientific Research.
Thanks to its partnership with Adaptive Computing, NICE will participate as a sponsor to Moabcon 2012, in Park City, Utah.
During the conference, NICE will show how to use NICE DCV, EnginFrame and Moab to consolidate expensive high-end GPU workstations providing users greater access to high-performance visualization of complex 3D interactive application alongside traditional HPC workload.
Dear Customer,
NICE s.r.l, the developer of EnginFrame, the world’s first grid portal, would like to reconfirm its commitment to EnginFrame customers in light of the recent acquisition of Platform Computing by IBM
Platform has been an authorized reseller of EnginFrame. NICE does not expect this to change in the foreseeable future, and our longstanding relationship with IBM should only be strengthened by this acquisition.
However, NICE would like to reassure all customers that we will continue to develop and provide support for EnginFrame. Should Platform or IBM choose to change strategy related to our products, customers are welcome to purchase our products and support from another authorized resellers or directly from us.
NICE continues to develop new features for EnginFrame with new versions being introduced on a regular basis. In addition, we develop complimentary products like EnginFrame Views that delivers load-balanced session management of 2D/3D sessions for remote visualization and collaboration. NICE has also recently introduced our new Desktop Cloud Visualization product, the first remote display protocol that supports multiple OpenGL-enabled sessions on a single server and with one or more GPUs.
We would be happy to provide additional information regarding any of these products. You can contact us through our web site, and should you plan to attend the upcoming SC11 show in Seattle, we would be please to invite you to our booth, #2541.
NICE is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 2012.0 release of its Desktop Cloud Visualization (NICE DCV) product. This new release represents a breakthrough in remote 3D visualization, as it is the first product in the market to perform GPU sharing across multiple Microsoft Windows and Linux Desktops. Extending existing support for Linux and Windows running on physical nodes, NICE DCV is now bringing full GPU acceleration to Virtual Machines, therefore enabling Companies and Cloud providers to deliver Virtual Workstations services to their users. Therefore, the new version of NICE DCV allows multiple users to run OpenGL applications served by a Private or Public Cloud configuration, or just simply remotely access their own dedicated workstation sitting in their office or datacenter, via LAN or WAN. Leveraging partnerships with leading technology providers and OEMs, NICE DCV has been tuned to get the best performance on NVIDIA high-end Quadro and Tesla GPUs running major CAD applications, as well as many Technical Computing applications. When NICE DCV is complemented with our flagship EnginFrame HPC and Remote Visualization gateway, customers can enjoy Web based access to the most demanding batch and interactive applications, boosting data access performance, model scalability and overall user productivity compared to traditional desk-side based computing.
To learn more:
At SC11, NICE (booth# 2541) will be showcasing the advances and applications of NICE EnginFrame the leading Grid Portal that enables user-friendly and application-oriented HPC job submission, control and monitoring.
Stop by the NICE booth speak with NICE qualified personnel can provide about and NICE EnginFrame Views and Desktop Cloud Visualization (DCV), our 3D remote visualization solution enabling users to connect to OpenGL applications running in remote data centers.
