Blog posts tagged with 'apollo'
Sit back and listen in as I speak with Doug Brown, Citrix Technology Professional and Microsoft MVP, about the Citrix Multimedia Virtualization Initiative and the new technologies being developed by the project Apollo team in this DABCC Radio podcast...
Derek Thorslund
Product Strategist, Multimedia Virtualization
Did you miss the Apollo Accelerated Bitmap Remoting demo at Synergy in Houston? Click here to view a brief video recorded by Vishal Ganeriwala, featuring "yours truly" and Daniel L'Hommedieu from our Engineering team.
Derek Thorslund
Product Strategist, Multimedia Virtualization
The Project Apollo multimedia virtualization team has just released the first Technology Preview of Accelerated Bitmap Remoting, a new technology that leverages graphics processor hardware acceleration to efficiently deliver high end 3D professional graphics and imaging. Although most customers' graphics needs are already well met by SpeedScreen Progressive Display (a revolutionary technology introduced in XenApp Presentation Server 4.5 and also included in XenDesktop), working with large 3D graphics models often demands the added computational power of a graphics processing unit (GPU). Project Apollo follows in the footsteps of Project Pictor which developed the technology behind Citrix's new Virtual Design Studio product for applications built on the popular OpenGL graphics API. Since many software vendors are now introducing applications using DirectX, the Apollo team has been busy researching new techniques for supporting the full range of Windows-compatible 3D graphics technologies. The Apollo technology also delivers Microsoft Windows Vista Aero desktops with full "glass" effects and Flip 3D animation.
This Tech Preview release marks the completion of phase one of project Apollo, focused on verifying the ability of this technology to efficiently capture graphics from a very wide range of professional graphics applications. Optimizations to reduce network bandwidth consumption, including enabling SpeedScreen Progressive Display to work along with Accelerated Bitmap Remoting, are in the works for the next phase of the project.
If you'd like to nominate your organization to evaluate this Tech Preview release, please visit www.citrix.com/apollo and complete the application form. The Apollo web site also provides answers to frequently asked questions and information on technical prerequisites.
Derek Thorslund
Product Strategist, Multimedia Virtualization
We were rocking out to AC/DC playing over ICA using Apollo, an YouTube video with audio and a phenomenal quality. Video taken on Geek Speak Lounge.
Oh Hail Apollo!
Cheers,
Gus Pinto
Synergy Underground
I hope by now a lot of you know about the new "unconference" portion of Synergy 2008, Geek Speak Live. Part of Geek Speak Live is the Geek Speak Lounge (GSL). Basically is an area to meet at during the Live event and meet with other members of the Citrix community and discuss and share new ideas and topics. It's also where you can see some demos with a twist, more on this later!
First, here's the proposed GSL layout: 
There are 4 main demo areas. The twist is that the demos are intended to let you experience future Citrix technology more interactively, possibly using some applications and devices that aren't what you'd usually see us demo.
So here's the rundown:
Cool Devices - This section of the GSL features gadgets that can be today, or may be enabled tomorrow with the ICA client to become your XenApp or XenDesktop ICA end points. Customers are using cell phones and PDAs today to do this, but we have some new devices that are starting to change the game and starting to reach Nirvana Device status as described in Chris Flecks post. You'll get to try them out in the GSL, in exchange for you opinion and comments on how use of such devices can add value to your business, or not! Hopefully this demo area makes you think about app and desktop delivery in some new ways. For a quick preview of some of the devices that will be present, check out the Nirvana Devices Invade Synergy Geek Speak Lounge post. (Note: we originally had a BarCamp session on this topic, but due to the great response we've gotten from others willing to present, we've removed this from BarCamp. But you can still get the hands on experience and knowledge in the GSL on this subject).
Project Alice Demo - Haven't heard about project Alice, also referred to as Reverse seamless? It fits in very nicely with our XenDesktop story and is a sneak peak at some new technology we are working on to allow the user to leverage local applications running on the end point device in the context of their XenDesktop seamlessly. Image having those favorite apps you have on your laptop seamlessly showing up as part of your Corporate XenDesktop environment with out needing to switch between the local desktop and XenDesktop.
Project Apollo Games - You've probably seen some of the blogs on project Apollo. Apollo does a great job of enabling the new graphics intensive features of next generation applications in a Citrix environment (preview at Derek Thorslund's blog). Well this is the GSL twisted version of those demos. We're going to have 8 Dell XPS 710 gaming systems running an early version of Apollo, remoting an action game to Wyse Thin Clients. You've seen the CAD demos, now it's your turn to actually sit down and give the power of project Apollo some hands on time, in true Geek Speak fashion. While you probably won't be publishing games to your end user's any time soon, you should be able translate the power of this demo into how project Apollo can help you move to the next generation of graphic intensive applications in your Citrix deployment in the future. We'll have some of the apps Derek has blogged on with Apollo as well, for those non-gamers like myself 
Apollo Media Center - To further show off some of the new video capabilities the Apollo team is working on, we will also have an Alienware Area 51 system running Media Center in the GSL. And you guessed it, the Alienware system will be "Apollo-ized" and remoting videos out to a large screen monitor via a Wyse thin client. Again, maybe not what you'd do in production, but you should be able to translate this demo with a twist into better ideas on how to deliver some of those training videos and other multi-media out to your users in the future.
The GSL should be a great place for you to meet with other members of the Citrix Community, discuss new ideas and hopefully come up with some new ones!
Thanks to Intel for sponoring the event, and the list of other partners supporting the GSL effort:
Alienware, Dell, Wyse, Nokia, Sprint, Celio, i-Mate, Impatica, Icuiti
We look forwared to meeting you there!
Adam
The Apollo team is busy developing several new technologies for multimedia virtualization. Details of the upcoming Tech Preview release of Apollo Accelerated Bitmap Remoting have now been posted on the Citrix.com web site. This technology expands Citrix's capabilities for high-end professional graphics and 3D medical imaging beyond OpenGL. This video demonstrates Accelerated Bitmap Remoting delivering Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Revit Architecture and Google Earth over ICA, leveraging the graphics processor on a Windows Vista host.
Derek Thorslund
Product Strategist, Multimedia Virtualization
Our project Apollo technology for remoting Vista Aero and any multimedia application that can run on Vista just keeps getting better. This video gives you a sneak peek at the latest version of Apollo, demonstrated by Juan Rivera (Citrix Development Manager) in the Tech Lab at Citrix Summit 2008 in Orlando.
One of the most exciting demos at iForum 07 - The App Delivery Expo - was the project Apollo demo by Henry Gancedo to Mark Templeton and the audience at the closing keynote. Click here to view a 6-minute video of the Apollo demo in which Henry gives us a preview of technology for delivering a Vista Aero desktop - complete with translucent "glass" effects, Flip 3D animation and a highly graphical WPF application - to a non-Vista desktop appliance. (http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1279697348)
Derek Thorslund
Product Strategist, Multimedia Virtualization
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