Introduction To Vca Manager; Connecting To Vca Manager - Nvidia Quadro VCA Manager User And Administrator Manual

Introduction to VCA Manager

Purpose: VCA Manager is a pre-installed utility found on a Visual Computing Appliance
(VCA). Use it to:
1 Reserve VCAs for your own use
2 Start an application on your reserved VCAs
To reserve your VCAs:
1 Open VCA Manager from a browser window.
2 Select the number of VCAs you want to reserve.
3 Select the software application you want to use.
4 Submit your request. The system reserves your VCAs for immediate use and starts the
remote server.
At any time, you can change your VCA setup by releasing your current VCAs and reserv-
ing a different setup. Your VCAs are not automatically released when you log off so please
remember to release them when you no longer need them.
Definitions:
Visual Computing Appliance (VCA) is a network appliance with 10GigE and InfiniBand
connections. A VCA harnesses the power of advanced NVIDIA GPUs to provide unpar-
alleled computing performance.
VCA Pool represents the available resources that you can reserve — VCAs and installed
software.
VCA reservation represents the VCAs and software you successfully reserve.

Connecting to VCA Manager

From your browser, enter the name or IP address of the VCA you want to connect to. The
format is
https://[name or IP address of the VCA]
The VCA Manager login window is displayed if the connection is successful.
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