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- Page 1 NVIDIA Quadro VCA Manager User's and administrator's guide NVIDIA Advanced Rendering Center Fasanenstraße 81 10623 Berlin Germany phone +49.30.315.99.70 fax +49.30.315.99.733 arc-office@nvidia.com...
- Page 2 NVIDIA ARC GmbH. The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. NVIDIA ARC GmbH and its employees shall not be responsible for incidental or consequential damages resulting from the use of this material or liable for technical or editorial omissions made herein.
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Page 4: Introduction To Vca Manager
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. -
Page 5: Logging In To Vca Manager
To log in to VCA Manager, type your user name and password and click the Login button. If you log in successfully, the VCA Manager Overview window is displayed. If login fails, contact the administrator of VCA Manager. © VCA Manager Guide NVIDIA ARC GmbH... -
Page 6: Reserving Vcas
Reserving VCAs Reserving VCAs This chapter explains how to reserve VCAs, and a software application such as NVIDIA Iray, which is designed for efficient use of one or more VCAs. VCA Manager Overview window: Overview The following figure shows the VCA Manager Overview window: Overview window Immediately under the page title, a snapshot of the user’s status is provided. -
Page 7: User Status
Remaining Sessions: The remaining number of reservations that you are allowed. Logging out: When you hover your mouse over the menu icon on the right, the menu is displayed. To logout, select the Logout command. User menu © VCA Manager Guide NVIDIA ARC GmbH... -
Page 8: My Visual Computing Cluster
To change your set up, you must release your VCAs and then submit a new reserva- tion request. When reserved, the VCAs change from grey to yellow: My Visual Computing Cluster panel: VCAs reserved © NVIDIA ARC GmbH VCA Manager Guide... - Page 9 Below these fields, boxes which represent all the VCAs you reserved are displayed. One box represents one VCA. Above each box is the unique name of the VCA. Underneath is your user name. © VCA Manager Guide NVIDIA ARC GmbH...
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Page 10: Visual Computing Appliance Pool
To release your VCAs, click the X to the right of the Size column. You cannot release the VCAs of other users unless you have administrator’s privileges. © NVIDIA ARC GmbH VCA Manager Guide... -
Page 11: Messages
Add message field Use the message board, for example, to post information about the operation of the VCAs, or scheduled maintenance, or announcements of upcoming events for which you need to pre-reserve VCAs. © VCA Manager Guide NVIDIA ARC GmbH... -
Page 12: Vca Manager Overview Window: Procedures
From the "Messages" panel on the VCA Manager Overview window, type your message and click the Add button to submit it. When successful, your message is added to the list of messages below. To delete a message you added to the message board: © NVIDIA ARC GmbH VCA Manager Guide... -
Page 13: Refreshing The Vca Connection
Open the menu and select Logout. Note Logging out does not release your VCAs. To release your VCAs, go to the "My Visual Computing Cluster" panel in the Overview window and click the Release All button. © VCA Manager Guide NVIDIA ARC GmbH... -
Page 14: Managing The Vca Pool And User Access
Adding a user The Add User window is used by an administrator to add a user, reset their password, or change their user privileges. Add User window © NVIDIA ARC GmbH VCA Manager Guide... -
Page 15: Removing A User
The Manage Nodes window is used by an administrator to temporarily disable VCAs in the pool, for example, when a VCA develops a problem which cannot be solved immediately and may require direct physical access. By excluding problematic VCAs, operation of the pool can continue undisturbed. © VCA Manager Guide NVIDIA ARC GmbH... -
Page 16: Testing Remote Direct Memory Access (Rdma) Connections And Performance
Setting the message of the day The Set MOTD window is used by an administrator to display an important message under the Welcome field near the top of the page. To set the message of the day: © NVIDIA ARC GmbH VCA Manager Guide... -
Page 17: Setting The Vca Pool Name
1 Open the menu and select Set Cluster Name. 2 In the New Cluster Name field, type a new name and click the Submit button. Warranty and support See the following documents: NVIDIA VCA software end user license agreement: http://www.nvidia.com/vca/eula NVIDIA limited hardware warranty — VCA: http://www.nvidia.com/vca/hw-warranty ©...
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