You could investigate if VIRTUAL GL is a good enough alternative .
Virtual GL is now part of opensolaris.
http://www.virtualgl.org/
http://wikis.sun.com/display/hpc/Sun+Visualization+System-
With Virtual GL you need a couple of workstation Class computers
where you can install 3D hardware.
as an example you can use SUN ultra 27 workstations with dual Nvidia
quadro 3800 cards.
Assuming that such a workstation can handle rendering for about 8
simultaneous 3D users as a ballpark figure
which will depend on the individual application. you can make a rough
estimate on how man workstations you need.
You cant put the 3d cards into servers because the server will be
overheated with two 3d cards consumeing an
additional 200 Watts of energy .
I have tried Virtual GL in a Demo environment with a SPARC
Workstation and the XVR600 3D card. feeding a Sun Ray
3D images so that part works.
If you have A Windows Application that creates the graphics it may not
be a usable solution.
//Lars
Vitaly Tsipris skrev:
Guys,
I am working with a customer who has an interesting challenge. I hope you could
help me figure out a way to help them.
Their situation is this: each user has to have a dedicated hardware workstation
(due to proprietory app) AND a regular desktop that can be a Virtual Machine.
Both are Windows based with some Linux desktops as well. They also will have a
total of 6 monitors each.
What we originally thought is to use VMware View 4 broker to connect desktops
with SunRays at the users' desks. The plan is to use SunRay 2FS clients.
However, turns out that they MUST have Teradici hardware cards on these
dedicated workstations.
My idea is to install one of these Teradici cards on a SunRay Server and let
workstation cards communicate with SRS server. SRS server will, in turn, pass
the video to the SunRay thin clients.
My questions are:
1. Would that work in theory on a SunRay server?
2. Does anyone know if Teradici card on SRS server can communicate with
multiple Teradici cards that are on workstations?
Finally, does anyone have any other alternative ideas on how to solve this
customer's problem?
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Thank you in advance for your help!
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Vitaly Tsipris
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