CAD applications on OpenStack

Dear all,

We're looking into integrating the use case of CAD applications, such as CATIA V5/6 or CATIA 3DEXPERIENCE, into our OpenStack deployment, with the goals of increased resource sharing and to reduce the park of individual workstations we have for this at the moment.

If anyone has experience running such applications on top of OpenStack (on individual VMs with GPU access, on bare metal servers with concurrent sessions, maybe even containerised ...) and would like to share what they have done, it'd be great if you got in touch with me.

Thanks! Arne

-- Arne Wiebalck CERN IT