NVIDIA SLI Multi-OS

NVIDIA® SLI® Multi-OS technology enables a designer, artist, or engineer, to simultaneously run multiple, business-critical, graphics-intensive applications, from a fully virtualized system, eliminating the need for a multiple system work environment.

An SLI Multi-OS workstation, with dual Quadro GPUs and virtualization software, lets a user assign a dedicated Quadro GPU to both the host operating system and a range of optionally loaded guest operating systems, thus creating a fully virtualized workstation*. Using an SLI Multi-OS workstation, professionals can achieve improved productivity and resource management for faster results. In addition, IT managers increase the use of a single system’s resources, reducing IT deployments for overall lower cost of ownership.

Minimum System Requirements*

NVIDIA SLI Multi-OS Certified workstations – extensively tested to for a professional experience
HP Z800 workstation
Dell Precision T7500 workstation

Host OS	Guest OS (Virtual Machine OS)
Windows XP SP2 64-bit	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 64-bit
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 64-bit	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 64-bit Windows Vista SP1 64-bit
Windows Vista SP1 64-bit	Windows Vista SP1 32-bit Windows XP SP2 64-bit Windows XP SP2 32-bit

NVIDIA SLI Multi-OS Capable systems
Systems based on the Intel Xeon 5500 series and the Intel 5520 chipset are capable of running Parallels Workstation Extreme with SLI Multi-OS enabled graphics boards (Quadro FX 5800, FX 4800 and FX 3800). Parallels maintains a list of systems that meet the requirements here. These systems have not received the full system level testing of SLI Multi-OS certified workstations.