IT2 | Developing and Implementing GPU-Enabled VDI for Student Success
(Room Dixie)
10 Jun 19
3:00 PM
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3:45 PM
Today’s students and educators heavily rely on mobile devices that allow anywhere, anytime access to applications and data. While virtual desktop infrastructure solutions have come a long way in recent years, allowing for rapid deployment, massive scaling, and highsatisfaction user experiences, VDI implementation remains a complex, long-term project. In this session, you will learn the strategies and path that the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering took to implement graphics processing unit-enabled VDI — a path that boosts student academic success while reducing desktop support, management, and security costs. You will explore the critical challenges that GPU-enabled VDI solves in education; strategies to win over faculty, students, administrators, and other stakeholders; and common VDI implementation pitfalls to avoid.