Case Study: Populous achieves rapid global deployment and workstation‑class graphics on any device with Atlantis Computing (Atlantis ILIO)

Global architecture firm Populous can quickly deploy designers to any location, thanks to the cloud-based creative power of Nvidia Grid™

Populous is a 500‑employee global architecture and design firm known for large sports and event venues. After winning the Olympic Stadium Transformation project, the firm needed to mobilize 20–30 staff to an onsite job in London and deliver a 3D proof‑of‑concept under severe time constraints, but could not wait months to provision a full local workstation setup and required GPU support for Revit, Rhino and Adobe Creative Suite.

Populous implemented a virtual desktop infrastructure using NVIDIA GRID K1/K2 on Dell PowerEdge servers with VMware Horizon, Teradici APEX and Atlantis ILIO to deliver workstation‑class graphics to virtual desktops on any device. The GRID‑enabled VDI let the team produce the 3D proof in four weeks, centralize files for real‑time collaboration and version control, improve resilience and productivity, and scale from 85 virtual desktops toward about 170 as the business grows.

Populous

Pete Whitcomb

Principal