On 2011-03-06, Christian Weiß <christian.weisz(a)spoc.at> wrote:
Consider an installation of about ~600 low budget thin-clients (with
almost no 3D support from the graphics chip) running as X-Terminals.
Those thin-client stations are serviced by a host computer for 25-30
stations each. This infrastructure should be the basis of an
architectural/interior planning system with serious demands in terms
of 3D rendering. It's all clear that the client hardware will not be
able to provide the power, so it comes down to a server-based
rendering approach. Therefore some of ATI's or Nvidia's latest boards
should be attached to the host computers forming a CUDA cluster for
their terminals. So, the question is: how to get the image to the
client?
This is already addressed by VirtualGL project
<
http://www.virtualgl.org/>.
-- Petr