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Amulet Hotkey develops unique modular workstation solutions that provide powerful performance and availability, including the Amulet Hotkey CoreModule, which was developed in partnership with Dell Technologies OEM Embedded and Edge Solutions.
This Amulet Hotkey-delivered solution combines the powerful GPU acceleration of the Amulet Hotkey CoreModule with the density and efficiency benefits of the Dell PowerEdge MX modular architecture. The solution is supported by the mission-critical expertise of the Amulet Hotkey Global Support organization.
The Amulet Hotkey modular workstation solution allows professional users to connect to graphics- and compute-intensive applications any time, anywhere, using remote access devices.
The following section provides system configuration information and benchmark results obtained using SPECworkstation 3 and OTOY Octanebench. The SPECworkstation 3 tests compare remote access client scenarios using a commercially available mobile client and an Amulet Hotkey DXZ4 PCoIP zero client. Similar results would be expected if a Dell Wyse 5030 Zero Client or an Amulet Hotkey DXZC PCoIP zero client were used instead of the DXZ4 device.
The following table shows the system configuration for the Amulet Hotkey modular workstation:
Hardware component | Workstation | Zero client | Mobile client |
System | Dell EMC | Amulet Hotkey | Microsoft Surface Book 2 |
CPU | 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6244 GPU @ 3.6 GHz | Teradici Tera2140 | Intel Core i7-8650U @ 1.9 GHz |
Memory | 12 x 32 GB 2933MT DIMMs | 512 MB DDR3 SDRAM | 8 GB 1866 MHz LPDDR |
Controller | PERC H730P MX | N/A | Embedded |
Capacity SSDs | 3 x 1.92 TB MU SSDs (RAID 5) | N/A | 256 GB SSD |
Boot device | BOSS card | 32 MB Flash | N/A |
Network | Qlogic 41232 (2 x 25 GE) | Gigabit Ethernet (RJ45) | Gigabit Ethernet (RJ45) |
GPU | 2 x NVIDIA T4 GPU | N/A | Intel UHD Graphics 620 |
Note: While the MX740c compute sled is configured for dual 8C CPUs, the SPECWorkstation 3.0.2 test runs were set to use only eight physical cores.
The following table shows the software components:
Software component | Workstation | Zero client | Mobile client |
Operating system | Windows 10 Enterprise Version 1909 | Green Hills | Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1909 |
Remote Access | Teradici Cloud Access Software Plus (CAS+) Graphics Agent | Teradici Tera2 Firmware | Teradici Cloud Access Software Client |
The SPECworkstation 3 benchmark measures key aspects of workstation performance based on diverse professional applications. The SPECworkstation 3 benchmark introduced in October 2018 includes updates such as:
The workstation benchmarks cover both 2K and 4K SPECworkstation tests with three remote access scenarios including:
The remote access client devices used in this test were connected to the Amulet Hotkey modular workstation (based on a PowerEdge MX740c compute sled) across a WAN network link with up to 30 ms of network latency.
The following graphs show the results we obtained:
The following table describes the SPECWorkstation 3 2K results:
SPECworkstation 3.0.2 | 2K baseline | 2K zero client | 2K mobile client |
Workstation | MX740c | MX740c | MX740c |
Remote Access Software | N/A | Teradici Cloud Access Plus | Teradici Cloud Access Plus |
Remote Access Client | No Remote Access | DXZ4 | Surface Pro |
SPECworkstation CPU Configuration | 8 core test | 8 core test | 8 core test |
SPECworkstation Render Resolution | 1900 x 1060 | 1900 x 1060 | 1900 x 1060 |
Display Resolution | 1920 x 1080 | 1920 x 1080 | 1920 x 1080 |
Media and Entertainment | 3.40 | 3.41 | 3.40 |
Product Development | 5.26 | 5.19 | 5.18 |
Life Sciences | 4.26 | 4.18 | 4.13 |
Financial Services | 4.31 | 4.84 | 4.82 |
General Operations | 2.16 | 2.16 | 2.15 |
CPU | 3.22 | 3.20 | 3.23 |
Graphics | 2.86 | 2.70 | 2.75 |
Storage | 4.43 | 4.34 | 4.37 |
GPU Compute OpenCL | 3.55 | 3.55 | 3.52 |
The following table describes the SPECWorkstation 3 4K results:
SPECworkstation 3.0.2 | 4K baseline | 4K zero client | 4K mobile client |
Workstation | MX740c | MX740c | MX740c |
Remote Access Software | N/A | Teradici Cloud Access Plus | Teradici Cloud Access Plus |
Remote Access Client | No Remote Access | DXZ4 | Surface Pro |
SPECworkstation CPU Configuration | 8 core test | 8 core test | 8 core test |
SPECworkstation Render Resolution | 3800 x 2120 | 3800 x 2120 | 3800 x 2120 |
Display Resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 3840 x 2160 | 3840 x 2160 |
Media and Entertainment | 3.16 | 3.14 | 3.08 |
Product Development | 4.95 | 4.83 | 4.82 |
Life Sciences | 3.44 | 3.40 | 3.37 |
Financial Services | 4.31 | 4.40 | 4.83 |
General Operations | 2.16 | 2.15 | 2.14 |
CPU | 3.23 | 3.19 | 3.22 |
Graphics | 1.75 | 1.62 | 1.59 |
Storage | 4.38 | 4.34 | 4.33 |
GPU Compute OpenCL | 3.63 | 3.55 | 3.57 |
The Amulet Hotkey CoreModule with NVIDIA T4 GPUs and PowerEdge MX modular architecture supports graphics-intensive acceleration that enhances the performance-user experience.
The OctaneBench benchmark tool provides GPU and multi-GPU benchmarking using OctaneRender by OTOY, which is a spectrally correct GPU render engine that is designed to deliver quality and speed. OctaneRender incorporates advanced graphics technologies with machine learning optimizations, out-of-core geometry support, and RTX raytracing GPU hardware acceleration.
The following table shows the OctaneBench MX740c and NVIDIA T4 results:
OctaneBench v4 | GPU | Multi-GPU |
Configuration | 1 x NVIDIA T4 Score | 2 x NVIDIA T4 Score |
Total Score | 145.20 | 289.20 |
The following table shows the OctaneBench scenes and scores (MX740c and NVIDIA T4):
Scene | GPU | Multi-GPU |
Configuration | 1 x NVIDIA T4 Score | 2 x NVIDIA T4 Score |
Interior (by Julia Lynen) | 87.28 | 175.99 |
Interior (by Julia Lynen) | 29.89 | 60.24 |
Interior (by Julia Lynen) | 13.40 | 26.57 |
Idea (by Julio Cayetano) | 100.20 | 201.51 |
Idea (by Julio Cayetano) | 28.28 | 56.26 |
Idea (by Julio Cayetano) | 25.33 | 50.43 |
ATV (by Jurgen Aleksejev) | 56.90 | 112.28 |
ATV (by Jurgen Aleksejev) | 21.75 | 43.20 |
ATV (by Jurgen Aleksejev) | 18.26 | 36.34 |
Box (by Enrico Cerica) | 96.00 | 190.69 |
Box (by Enrico Cerica) | 19.09 | 37.86 |
Box (by Enrico Cerica) | 19.29 | 38.42 |
The Octane Bench benchmark tool can be found at:
https://render.otoy.com/octanebench/
The raw test data results can be found here:
https://resources.amulethotkey.com/download/20200409_Modular_Workstation_Test_Data.pdf