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Server-side 3D-accelerated virtualized applications

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I am a bit rusty in the area of 3d-accelerated virtualization. Can you guys tell me what solutions exist for 3D-accelerated applications on the server-side of things?

Last I checked there was the following:

RemoteFX - RDP one GPU to many clients
XenDesktop - ICA one GPU to one client?
VMWare ESXi VT-d- PCoIP/RDP one GPU to once client

Anything I'm missing? I haven't talked to our Citrix rep recently but is GPU-acceleration for XenApp coming anytime soon?

Just looking to brainstorm here.
 
Windows server 2012 does it best right now but only supports windows well! Citrix is very close to finishing their solution, but they have more work to do to support more stuff than windows supports. The free stuff out there only works in theory. And last I saw, vmware has fallen behind in gpu virtualization.

For games, since windows is the best game platform, server 2012 is the no brainer choice!

Nvidia is working with citrix to make it so that enterprise servers can plug in a high speed Tesla card and magically everybody gets full capability graphics
 
I'd like to chime in that I'm using VMWare for virtualized 3D gaming and it works quite well for most games, though I saw better performance in Hyper-V (could get ~60 frames over an ethernet cable to another machine). however, there were severe mouse sensitivity and mouse window-locking issues, though I imaging this is because I was playing games that were also rendering a Z-axis. I guess it depends on the application...
 
PCoIP is nice especially if you have a teradici client. Nothing like playing 1900X1200 with no discernable impact. Windows server 2012 doing best, nope I know so.
 
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