Parallels taps Intel's Xeon 5500
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Virtually 3D
Monday, 6 April 2009, 14:09
VIRTUALISATION outfit Parallels says that it has tapped into Intel's Virtualisation Technology (VT-d) which is found in the chipmaker's new Xeon 5500 quad-core processors.
The move means that Parallels' Nehalem-powered workstations running virtualisation software can use graphics-boosting cards on each virtual machine.
Parallels says that its Workstation Extreme makes it possible to run multiple operating systems on the same system while maintaining workload isolation.
For ages virtualisation software has been rubbish at rendering 3D graphics. µ
L'Inq
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I know this new site is pro ATI, but almost all other new sites have mentioned that Nvidia was some what involved in making drivers available to work with the Parallels implementation that virtualizes the 3d acceleration.. no?
That's really neat technology, but it'd be nice if it was affordable on a sane budget. As it is, I bet you're looking at a minimum of 2-2.5 grand (Xeon, Quadro, workstation, VMWare)