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GPU requirements for ETX in an IPsec-connected server room (Virtuoso full design flow, 28nm, 60 engineers)


wanghehe

Hi everyone,

Our company moved the servers from the on-premise office server closet to a data center, with the two sites now linked over IPsec. After the migration, VNC started showing high bandwidth usage, noticeable latency, and choppy screen updates, so we're evaluating ETX as the remote-control solution. I've gone through the deployment documentation, but I still have a few questions about the GPU side:

1. What role does the GPU actually play here? Is it mainly to cut down bandwidth consumption, or to reduce CPU load on the server and/or the client?

2. We have around 60 engineers running Cadence Virtuoso across the full custom-IC design flow — schematic entry, layout, simulation, DRC/LVS and physical verification — on 28nm designs. What kind of GPU model would you recommend for this workload?

3. Do we need to purchase a commercial vGPU license, or is that not required in our case?

Thanks a lot for any advice you can share.