Thin clients seem to be like Linux on the desktop, never quite as good as they're made out to be, but nevertheless people keep on trying.
I wonder how happy those 10K engineers are about it?
NVIDIA's cranked up the virtual workstation caper by giving the world a new GPU that slots into blade servers, plus software to let it run multiple workstation-grade VMs. The new GPU is the TESLA P6 and uses NVIDIA's Pascal architecture, the company's current flagship. The P6 has 2,048 CUDA cores, 16 GB of memory and uses the …
Korev, what do you mean by a 'lot'?
They are perfectly usable in normal office networks and don;t consume a huge bandwith
On a WAN link you can easily set up limits on the bandwidth they will use.
https://communities.teradici.com/questions/5370/pcoip-bandwidth-maximums-for-software-clients.html
Well worth a plug for an excellent British company which manufactures thin clients.
https://www.amulethotkey.com/
Good bunch of keys, and great products.
FIA, go to the Amulet offices and get a demo of their gaming rig with dual high def monitors, playing a game of your choice via a thin client and tell me that they are rubbish.
Thanks John, very kind of you! I literally stumbled across this while looking for news on the P6, as we're building a P6 card for the Dell blade). Always happy to give tech demos!
In response to one of the other comments about bandwidth; surround gaming across PCoIP (three monitors running at a combined 5760x1080 @ 60Hz) can can use close to 800Mbps. But of course this isn't exactly an every day use case!
FIA, go to the Amulet offices and get a demo of their gaming rig with dual high def monitors, playing a game of your choice via a thin client and tell me that they are rubbish.
I'd be more interested in a demo of a plurality of people doing real work simultaneously with a performance level similar to discreet workstations, without suffering performance losses yet still seeing cost advantages.
Also, I'm not saying they are rubbish, I'm saying often these systems don't live up to usability expectations, as they're used to cost save rather than to facilitate remote working situations that would otherwise be unfeasible.
Maybe it's just down to experience, use cases that justify multiple high def monitors probably aren't driven by cost factors, whereas most of the use cases I've seen were; usually leading to a much degraded user experience as a result.