Hi, I haven't personally tested the Dell FX100 device, nor the Teradici chipset, but I've seen various similar devices in the past. My main complaint with these devices is that they typically have a difficult time keeping up with full-screen interactive frame rates at high resolutions when they're used on a normal network.
Basically, these devices are real-time hardware video/audio/USB encoder/decoder pairs with transmission over IP. If you have a private subnet or a direct ethernet connection they can work pretty well. On the other hand, if you have a busy network or your IP connection has to pass through multiple routers and switches to get to the other endpoint, you can experience glitching or hiccups in screen updates, audio, etc. I tested a stereoscopic-capable device similar to the Dell device on our building network a couple of years ago and found that while it worked reasonably well with a direct connection, it had troubles (both stereo and non-stereo) when used on the building network due to competition from other traffic. Our building network is all gigabit or better, but even so we have bursty traffic due to huge file transfers to/from supercomputers, and analysis runs of huge MD trajectory files. So, in my opinion, if you can setup a private subnet just for your PC-over-IP device, it may work out pretty well. If not, then I'd be concerned over how well it would perform. Either way, you'll want to get a loaner device and actually try it out to determine for yourself. Cheers, John Stone [email protected] On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 05:40:24PM +0200, Tru Huynh wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry for crossposting, I believe both pymol and vmd communities share the > same > interest in linux/3D ;) > > Has anyone used the new Dell R5400 with the remote FX100 display > with vmd/pymol or any linux 3D intensive software? > > if so, how does it compare to a regular linux workstation? ;D > I assume it's faster than the regular X remote display... > > Cheers, > > Tru > > ref: http://www.teradici.com/technology/ > ref: > http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/workstation_precision_r5400 > -- > Dr Tru Huynh | http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/unites/Binfs/ > mailto:[email protected] | tel/fax +33 1 45 68 87 37/19 > Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue du Docteur Roux, 75724 Paris CEDEX 15 France -- NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 Email: [email protected] Phone: 217-244-3349 WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Fax: 217-244-6078
