Hello Arun, Arun SAG skrev: > I am doing a toy project (not a project at all).In which i am going to use > LTSP and make some computers to boot from lan (thin clients)..But my head of > the department is not even interested in that, he keep saying that,thin > clients are failure, the server requires more power(like cpu,ram) when many > users are connected to the terminal server...He also saying that we cannot > use thin clients for huge computational purposes..Like running matlab or > oracle in a windows terminal server....By the way the environment i am going > to setup thin client is a university............. > > I would appreciate if some one give statistics,success stories or any other > information so that i can defend my self...
I have no personal story of running CPU- and/or RAM-heavy applications on an LTSP server, but I remember reading about spreading the load in various combinations, both on this list and on the K12LTSP site. So: if there's one or more truly heavy apps, you can either spread load on the server side, e. g. running the heavy apps on their own server linked in through LTSP, running the file server separately, running some more or less obnoxious apps on the clients (if they're fat enough) but still loading them from LTSP and thus keeping the admin advantage of it... The list can most probably be made very long. Just BTW, the centralized administration may be a winning point. Looking for that nice server load sharing pic I remember from the K12LTSP site, I came across these case studies: <http://k12ltsp.org/casestudy.html> Can't find that pic in a jiffy, dunno if it's still there, chances are it is, somewhere. <http://k12ltsp.org/server.html> BR, Gudmund ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
