What’s the point of SLI Multi-OS?

One of Nvidia’s big announcements yesterday was “SLI Multi-OS”, but alot of people are still uncertain what that really means.  InfoWorld has an article on the latest version of Parallels which uses the feature, and gives a nice description of how it will be useful to people performing large visualizations (the Oil & Gas industry specifically).

“Until now it has been impossible for them to enjoy the benefits of virtualization as the impact on graphics performance has been significant. (…)  The solution also offers up to 16 CPU cores and 64GB of RAM for guest OSs creating a superior customer experience compared to today’s normal computing speed in a virtual machine. (…) .” Rather than taking the typical path of emulating the graphics adapter in a virtual machine Parallels Workstation Extreme employs what it calls the Parallels FastLane architecture which takes full advantage of the intelligent performance features in the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series and the Intel X58 Express Chipset.

via Parallels gives 3D graphics a boost within virtualization |Virtualization Report | David Marshall | InfoWorld.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .